In Search of Eloquence : Cross-Disciplinary Conversations on the Role of Writing in Undergraduate Education

by COSGROVE, CORNELIUS; BARTA-SMITH, NANCY

• ISBN13: 9781572735774
• ISBN10: 1572735775
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-30
• Publisher: Hampton Pr

Table of Contents

1 Meeting the Rhetorician's Challenge Through Cross-Disciplinary Conversation	1	(14)
Composition's Role When "English" No Longer Encompasses Writing Instruction	3	(6)
Conversation as a Model for Cross-Campus Talk About Writing	9	(6)
2 An Institution and Its Faculty: The Why and How of Our Study	15	(16)
The Teaching Life at a Small Public Comprehensive	16	(4)
Searching for Written Eloquence: Programs and Problems	20	(2)
Processes and Principals	22	(7)
An Ending and a Beginning	29	(2)
3 In Search of Recognition: The Dynamics of the Interviews	31	(32)
Developing Ordinary Language	37	(14)
Facilitating Conversation: Moves Both Adept and Clumsy	51	(10)
Interdisciplinary Study Through Conversation	61	(2)
4 What Should Students Write? Distances and Proximities Among Classroom, Disciplinary and Workplace Genres	63	(40)
Defining Genre	63	(6)
Identifying Genres	69	(11)
Connecting Classroom and Professional Genres	80	(5)
Considering Doubts and Possibilities	85	(6)
Translating, Playing and Adapting	91	(7)
Valuing Classroom Genres, Contexts, and Collaborations	98	(5)
5 Writing as Inquiry, Argument and Persuasion	103	(32)
Logic, Emotion and Aesthetics in Inquiry and Argument	106	(11)
The Shifting Circumstances of Ethos in Academe	117	(7)
What, Then, Should We Teach?	124	(11)
6 Expert Knowledge: Knowing That, Learning How, and Asking Why	135	(46)
Connecting Expertise to Practice	139	(9)
Asking Why or Learning How in Graduate School	148	(5)
Writing to Learn, Reflect, and Critique in the Undergraduate Major	153	(10)
General Education as a Supplement to Specialist Expertise	163	(8)
Learning Non-Specialist Functional Expertise	171	(10)
7 Connecting Correctness and Style to Writing Instruction Within and Beyond Disciplines	181	(34)
Teaching Writing and Teaching Correctness	181	(8)
Seeing Meaning as Stable or Variable	189	(13)
Connecting Style to Writing Within And Beyond Disciplines	202	(13)
8 Further Steps in the Search for Eloquence	215	(14)
Appendices
Appendix A Schedule of First Interview Questions	229	(2)
Appendix B Schedule of Second Interview Questions	231	(2)
Appendix C Transcript Analysis Sheet	233	(4)
Appendix D Technical and Scientific Writing: Assignment 4	237	(2)
Appendix E College Writing II: Evaluating the First Position Paper	239	(4)
Appendix F College Writing II: Second Position Paper Checklist	243	(2)
References	245	(6)
Author Index	251	(4)
Subject Index	255