Exploring College Writing

Reading, Writing and Researching Across the Curriculum
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84553-780-7
Verlag: Equinox Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 524 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1080 g

Reihe: Frameworks for Writing

Exploring College Writing: Reading, Writing and Researching across the Curriculum is a rhetoric for first-year and sophomore composition courses that uses a constructivist, ethnographic approach to introducing students to academic reading, writing, and researching. This text will be especially useful to composition instructors who wish to provide students with both a general overview of academic discourse and an introduction to the purposes, audiences, and genres of writing across disciplines. This textbook works from the premise that the best way to initiate students to academic discourse is to have them explore academic literacies using an ethnographic, fieldwork approach to their own institution. Students are cast in the role of researchers, exploring their own experiences as college writers and investigating writing in General Education and in their prospective majors. The book provides instructors and students sequences of engaging and exploratory Writing to LearnA" and Learn by DoingA" activities and formal, extended writing projects that ask students to interview professors, analyze writing assignments, and reflect on their own reading, writing, and researching processes and histories. These writing projects connect to students' interests, experiences, and goals and provide them with a sense of purpose and audience for writing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Melzer, Dan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: An Introduction to College Writing Chapter 1: Understanding Expectations for College-Level Writing Chapter 2: Understanding College Writing Situations Writing Projects for Part I Part II: Exploring Academic Reading, Writing, and Researching Processes Chapter 3: Academic Writing Processes Chapter 4: Academic Reading Processes Chapter 5: Academic Researching Processes Writing Projects for Part II Part III: Exploring Reading, Writing, and Researching Across the Curriculum Chapter 6: An Introduction to Writing across the Curriculum Chapter 7: Reading, Writing, and Researching in the Natural Sciences Chapter 8: Reading, Writing, and Researching in the Social Sciences Chapter 9: Reading, Writing, and Researching in the Arts and Humanities Writing Projects for Part III

Über Autor(innen)

Melzer, Dan
California State University, Sacramento