Bartholomae Writing on the Margins

Essays on Composition and Teaching
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4039-8439-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 386 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: History (R0)

A collection of twenty-one essays by David Bartholomae, Writing on the Margins includes selections that have helped shape the discipline of composition studies. With a wide-ranging introduction and three retrospective postscripts to set the essays in context, it serves as a valuable reference and as a powerful introduction to crucial issues in the field. This book has been awarded the MLA's Mina P. Shaugnessy Award, recognizing an outstanding research publication on the teaching of English.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bartholomae, D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE: THE STUDY OF ERROR The Study of Error Released into Language: Errors, Expectations and the Legacy of Mina Shaughnessy Inventing the University Wanderings: Misreadings, Miswritings, and Misunderstandings Writing on the Margins: The Concept of Literacy in Higher Education Telling Secrets: Student Readers and Disciplinary Authorities; Carolyn Ball & Laura Dice Postscript: The Study of Error PART TWO: TEACHING COMPOSITION Teaching Basic Writing: An Alternative to Basic Skills Writing Assignments: Where Writing Begins Against the Grain Wistful and Admiring: The Rhetoric of Combination The Reading of Reading; I. A. Richards and M. J. Adler Producing Adult Readers, 1930-1950 The Argument of Reading Stop Making Sense: An Interview with David Bartholomae Introduction: Ways of Reading; Anthony Petrosky Postscript: Teaching Composition PART THREE: THE PROFESSION Freshman English, Composition, and CCCC The Tidy House: Basic Writing in the American Curriculum What is Composition (and If You Know What That Is) Why Do We Teach It? Composition: 1900-2000 Literacy and Departments of Language and Literature Reading and Writing in the Academy: A Conversation with David Bartholomae Postscript: The Profession

Über Autor(innen)

DAVID BARTHOLOMAE is Chair of the English Department, University of Pittsburgh, USA.