Landmark essays on basic writing / edited by Kay Halasek and Nels P. Highberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Halasek, Kay.

Highberg, Nels Pearson.

Series:

Landmark essays ; v. 18.

Landmark essays ; v. 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

English language--Grammar--Study and teaching.

Report writing--Study and teaching (Higher).

Report writing.

Basic writing (Remedial education).

Physical Description:

xxix, 257 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : Hermagoras Press, [2001]

Summary:

This anthology chronicles the development of basic writing instruction, depicting the theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical shifts over the past 20 years. Intended for scholars and advanced students in composition and education.

Contents:

Introduction: Locality and Basic Writing / Kay Halasek, Nels P. Highberg xi

(Re)Defining Basic Writing and Basic Writers

1. "Teaching Language in Open Admissions." On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978. New York: W.W. Norton, 1979 / Adrienne Rich 1

2. "What Happens When Basic Writers Come to College?" College Composition and Communication 37 (Oct. 1986): 294-301 / Patricia Bizzell 15

3. "Narrowing the Mind and Page: Remedial Writers and Cognitive Reductionism." College Composition and Communication 39.3 (1988): 267-302 / Mike Rose 23

4. "Redefining the Legacy of Mina Shaughnessy: A Critique of the Politics Of Linguistic Innocence." Journal of Basic Writing 10.1 (Spring 1991): 26-40 / Min-zhan Lu 57

Postmodernism and Literacy Education

5. "'Strangers No More': A Liberatory Literacy Curriculum." College English (February 1982): 115-28 / Kyle Fiore, Nan Elsasser 69

6. "The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children." Harvard Educational Review 58 (August 1988): 280-98 / Lisa D. Delpit 83

7. "Culture as an Instructional Resource in the Multiethnic Composition Classroom." Journal of Basic Writing 11.1 (1992): 75-96 / G. Genevieve Patthey-Chavez, Constance Gergen 103

8. "Back to Basics: A Force for Oppression or Liberation?" College English 54 (Jan. 1992): 7-21 / Daniel Lazere 121

9. "Conflict and Struggle: The Enemies or Preconditions of Basic Writing." College English 54 (1992): 887-913 / Min-zhan Lu 135

Toward a Post-Critical Pedagogy of Basic Writing

10. "Negotiating the Contact Zone." Journal of Basic Writing 41.1 (1995): 27-41 / Joseph Harris 159

11. "The Tidy House: Basic Writing in the American Curriculum." Journal of Basic Writing 12.1 (1993): 4-21 / David Bartholomae 171

12. "Resisting Privilege: Basic Writing and Foucault's Author Function." College Composition and Communication 45.3 (October 1994): 320-341 / Gail Stygall 185

13. "Literacies and Deficits Revisited." Journal of Basic Writing 21.1 (1993): 46-56 / Jerrie Cobb Scott 205

14. "Constructing Teacher Identity in the Basic Writing Classroom." Journal of Basic Writing 16.1 (1997): 27-49 / Jacqueline Jones Royster, Rebecca Greenberg Taylor 213.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-237) and index.

ISBN:

1880393298

OCLC:

45008485