Reforming college composition : writing the wrongs / edited by Ray Wallace, Alan Jackson, and Susan Lewis Wallace.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wallace, Ray.

Jackson, Alan, 1957-

Wallace, Susan Lewis.

Series:

Contributions to the study of education 0916-707X ; no. 79.

Contributions to the study of education, 0916-707X ; no. 79

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

Report writing--Study and teaching (Higher).

Report writing.

Educational change.

Physical Description:

xxx, 268 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.

Summary:

Addresses the failings of Composition Studies and offers ways to reform the teaching of writing.

Contents:

I. Writing the Wrongs: Voices of Concern

1. First the Bad News, Then the Good News: Where Writing Research Has Taken Us and Where We Need to Take It Now / Wendy Bishop 3

2. Composition at the End of Everything; or, The Bravery of Being Out of Range: What's Wrong with a Postmodern Composition Theory? / Kelly Lowe 13

3. Expressivisms as "Vernacular Theories" of Composing: Recovering the Pragmatic Roots of Writing Instruction / Don Bushman 25

4. The Post-Process Movement in Composition Studies / Bruce McComiskey 37

5. Finding "The Writer's Way": What We Expected and How We've Erred / Gina S. Claywell 55

6. The Writing Center and the Politics of Separation: The Writing Process Movement's Dubious Legacy / Christina Murphy, Joe Law 65

II. Righting the Wrongs: Voices from the Trenches

7. Readerless Writers: College Composition's Misreading and Misteaching of Entering Students / Ray Wallace, Susan Lewis Wallace 79

8. Peer Review and Response: A Failure of the Process Paradigm as Viewed From the Trenches / Lynne Belcher 99

9. The Service Myth: Why Freshman Composition Doesn't Serve "Us" or "Them" / Kerri Morris 113

10. Preparing Composition Students for Writing in Their Careers / Donald Samson 123

11. Coming to Terms with the Freshman Term Paper / James C. McDonald 137

12. The Bytes Are On, But Nobody's Home: Composition's Wrong Turns into the Computer Age / J. Rocky Colavito 149

13. Technology, Distance, and Collaboration: Where are These Pedagogies Taking Composition? / Linda Myers-Breslin 161

14. Linguistics and Composition / Sara Kimball 179

III. Writing and Righting the Future: Preparing New Voices

15. Many a Slip Twixt the Cup and the Lip: Teaching and Learning with Graduate Instructors / Janice Witherspoon Neuleib, Maurice Scharton 193

16. Obscured Agendas and Hidden Failures: Teaching Assistants, Graduate Education, and First-Year Writing Courses / Stuart C. Brown 203

17. The Preparation of Graduate Writing Teachers: Creating Substance Out of Shadows / Beth Maxfield 213

18. Cognition and Culture: Addressing the Needs of Student-Writers / Alan Jackson 225

19. Breaking the Learning Monopoly: Acknowledging and Accommodating Students' Diverse Learning Styles / Eric H. Hobson 233.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-259) and index.

ISBN:

0313310939

OCLC:

43114980