Refiguring Prose Style Possibilities For Writing Pedagogy / edited by T.R. Johnson, Tom Pace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, T.R., Author.

Contributor:

Pace, Tom, 1969-

Johnson, T. R., 1964-

This book is freely available in digital formats through the Utah State University Library Digital Commons., funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Report writing--Study and teaching.

Report writing.

Interdisciplinary approach in education.

English language--Style--Study and teaching.

English language.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Place of Publication:

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For about two decades, say Johnson and Pace, the discussion of how to address prose style in teaching college writing has been stuck, with style standing in as a proxy for other stakes in the theory wars. The traditional argument is evidently still quite persuasive to some-that teaching style is mostly a matter of teaching generic conventions through repetition and practice. Such a position usually presumes the traditional view of composition as essentially a service course, one without content of its own. On the other side, the shortcomings of this argument have been much discu

Contents:

Style and the renaissance of composition studies / Tom Pace

Where is style going? Where has it been? / Elizabeth Weiser

Contextual stylistics : breaking down the binaries in sentence-level pedagogy / Rebecca Moore Howard

Style redux / Kathryn Flannery

The uses of literature / Tina Kelleher

Persuasion, more than argument : moving toward a literary sensitivity in the classroom / Allison Alsup

An arts-centric composition classroom / Gabriel Gomez

Playing with echo : strategies for teaching repetition in the writing classroom / Melissa A. Goldthwaite

The "Weird Al" style method : playful invention as serious pedagogy / Keith Rhodes

When their voice is their problem : using imitation to teach the classroom dialect / J. Scott Farrin

Style : the new grammar in composition studies? / Nicole Amare

Balancing thought and expression : a short course in style / Lisa Baird

Rethinking stylistic analysis in the writing class / William J. Carpenter

Re-placing the sentence : approaching style through genre / Peter Clements

Tutoring taboo : a reconsideration of style in the writing center / Jesse Kavadlo

Rhetor-fitting : defining ethics through style / Dion C. Cautrell

Style as a system : toward a cybernetic model of composition style / Drew Loewe

Teaching the tropics of inquiry in the composition classroom / M. Todd Harper

Writing with the ear / T.R. Johnson.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [286]-308) and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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ISBN:

9786613267252

9781283267250

128326725X

9780874215199

0874215196

OCLC:

476107807

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access