A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers

by Lindemann, Erika; Anderson, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780195130454
• ISBN10: 0195130456
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

From answering the question "Why teach writing?" to offering guidance in managing group work and responding to assignments, A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers provides a comprehensive introduction to the teaching of writing. Now in a fourth edition, this remarkably successful book features a newchapter by Daniel Anderson on teaching with computers and adds updated material on invention, intellectual development, and responding to students' writing. Describing in straightforward terms the cross-disciplinary scholarship that underlies composition teaching, it opens with chapters onprewriting techniques, organizing material, paragraphing, sentence structure, words, and revising that show teachers how to lead students through composing. Sections on writing workshops, collaborative learning, and instructional technology reflect current views of writing as a social interaction.Chapters on rhetoric, cognition, and linguistics explain theoretical principles that support classroom practices and make teachers' performances more effective. Treating both the theory and practice of writing, this classic book encourages teachers to adopt the methods that best meet their students' needs and to develop a style of teaching based on informed decisions. It provides an extensive updated bibliography--including useful Web sites as well asimportant books and articles--and an updated table of important dates in the history of composition. A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers, 4/e, offers both prospective and seasoned writing teachers convenient access to influential scholarship in the field and inspires them to examine what it means toteach well.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
ONE THE COMPOSING PROCESS
Why Teach Writing?	3	(7)
Writing as Economic Power	4	(1)
Writing as Social Necessity	5	(1)
Writing as Knowing	5	(2)
The Humanistic Perspective	7	(1)
An Overview of This Book	8	(2)
What Is Writing?	10	(12)
The Addresser	11	(1)
The Addressee	12	(2)
Context	14	(1)
Message	14	(1)
Contact	15	(1)
Code	15	(3)
Summary and Applications	18	(4)
What Does the Process Involve?	22	(15)
What Experience Tells Us	22	(2)
Published Accounts of the Process	24	(1)
Prewriting	25	(2)
Writing	27	(2)
Rewriting	29	(3)
Writing as Social Interaction	32	(5)
TWO RHETORICAL THEORY AND PRACTICE
What Do Teachers Need to Know about Rhetoric?	37	(23)
Preliminary Questions	37	(2)
What Is Rhetoric?	39	(2)
Classical Rhetoric	41	(4)
Medieval and Renaissance Rhetoric	45	(3)
The Renaissance to the Twentieth Century	48	(4)
Contemporary Rhetoric	52	(6)
Conclusion	58	(2)
What Do Teachers Need to Know about Linguistics?	60	(26)
Writing and Speech	62	(1)
The Nature of Language	63	(3)
Grammar and Usage	66	(8)
Approaches to Grammar	74	(4)
Structural Grammar	78	(1)
Generative-Transformational Grammar	79	(4)
The Association Model	83	(3)
What Do Teachers Need to Know about Cognition?	86	(23)
Creativity	87	(1)
Perception	88	(5)
Conception	93	(1)
Piaget	94	(4)
Moffett	98	(2)
Perry and Magolda	100	(6)
Implications	106	(3)
Prewriting Techniques	109	(21)
Perception Exercises	110	(2)
Brainstorming and Clustering	112	(2)
Freewriting	114	(1)
Journals	115	(3)
Heuristics	118	(8)
Models	126	(4)
Shaping Discourse	130	(16)
Form Consciousness	130	(1)
Discovering Form	131	(5)
Strategies for Teaching Form	136	(2)
Blocking	138	(3)
D' Angelo's Paradigms	141	(5)
Teaching Paragraphing	146	(17)
Traditional Views of the Paragraph	146	(1)
How Writers Paragraph	147	(3)
Relating Part to Whole	150	(1)
Generative Rhetoric of the Paragraph	151	(4)
A Sequence of Lessons	155	(8)
Teaching about Sentences	163	(12)
Sentence Combining	166	(4)
Cumulative Sentences	170	(5)
Teaching about Words	175	(14)
Parts of Speech	177	(1)
Active and Passive Voice	178	(2)
Derivational and Inflectional Affixes	180	(2)
Style	182	(2)
Additional Resources	184	(2)
Suggestions for Teaching Students about Language	186	(3)
Teaching Rewriting	189	(24)
Changing Attitudes	189	(6)
Writing Strategies Applied to Rewriting: Finding the Subject	195	(2)
Rewriting: Finding the Shape of Discourse	197	(3)
Rewriting: Finding Relationships in Paragraphs	200	(2)
Rewriting: Finding Sentence Problems	202	(2)
Writing Workshops	204	(4)
Student-Generated Criteria	208	(5)
THREE TEACHING AS RHETORIC
Developing Writing Assignments	213	(9)
Traditional Assignments	213	(2)
Defining a Rhetorical Problem	215	(7)
Responding to Student Writing	222	(30)
The Basics and Testing	222	(2)
Describing, Measuring, Judging	224	(2)
Diagnostic Reading	226	(4)
Teaching through Comments	230	(13)
Self-Evaluation	243	(1)
Atomistic Evaluation	244	(1)
Holistic Evaluation	245	(3)
Handling the Paper Load	248	(4)
Designing Writing Courses	252	(28)
Teaching as Rhetoric	252	(2)
General Principles of Course Design	254	(2)
Course Models	256	(2)
Active and Collaborative Learning	258	(3)
Preliminary Decisions	261	(3)
Course Outlines	264	(2)
Lesson Plans	266	(4)
The Teaching Performance	270	(10)
Teaching Writing with Computers	280	(25)
How Have Computers Been Used to Teach Writing?	281	(1)
Why Use Computers?	282	(3)
General Guidelines for Teaching with Computers	285	(4)
Word Processors	289	(3)
E-Mail	292	(2)
Newsgroups and Web Forums	294	(1)
Synchronous Communication	295	(3)
Courseware	298	(1)
The World Wide Web	299	(6)
Afterword	305	(1)
Some Important Dates in the History of Composition and Rhetoric	306	(9)
A Selected Bibliography	315	(1)
List of Works Consulted	316	(23)
Index	339