The Power of Writing Dartmouth '66 in the Twenty-First Century / Christiane Donahue and Kelly Blewett, Editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blewett, Kelly, editor.

Donahue, Christiane, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Academic writing--Study and teaching (Higher).

Academic writing.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher).

English language.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (157 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why writing matters in higher education. At the 1966 Dartmouth Seminar, scholars gathered to debate the direction of English Studies in the academy. This debate had far-reaching effects and arguably forever changed writing instruction in the United States. To commemorate the 45th anniversary of this gathering, Dartmouth College hosted an event celebrating the past and looking toward the future. Then as now, writing well matters, and it matters in institutions of higher education across disciplines. Scholars and public intellectuals (including New York Times best-selling authors David McCullough and Steve Strogatz) from the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and interdisciplinary fields engage some of the controversial questions related to writing today. Each anchor article--representing disciplines as varied as musicology, African studies, mathematics, and history--receives responses from Dartmouth faculty and nationally-renowned faculty members in writing studies programs.

Contents:

Foreword: The Power of Writing by Michael Mastanduno

Introduction: Updating Dartmouth by Joseph Harris

Part 1: Sciences

1. Writing about Math for the Perplexed and the Traumatized by Steven Strogatz

2. Notes toward a Theory of Writing for the Public by Kathleen Blake Yancey

3. Writing in the Sciences by Daniel Rockmore

Part 2: Social Sciences

4. The Good, Hard Work of Writing Well by David McCullough

5. Growing Writers: A Response to David McCullough by Keith Gilyard

6. History as a Laboratory for the Good, Hard Work of Writing Well by Leslie Butler

Part 3: Interdisciplinary Studies

7. Writing and States of Emergency by Hortense J. Spillers

8. Her Prophetic Voice: A Response to Hortense Spillers by Patricia Bizzell

9. Being the Emergency: A Response to Hortense Spillers by Melanie Benson Taylor

Part 4: Humanities

10. Listening to Write by Katherine Bergeron

11. Writing as a Performance of Language, Listening as an Act of Empathy by Maria Jerskey

12. The Power of Sound and Silence by Ioana Chitoran.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

910070605

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access