Self-Development and College Writing [electronic resource] / Nick Tingle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tingle, Nick, 1945-

Series:

Studies in writing & rhetoric.

Studies in writing & rhetoric

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-culture.

Academic writing--Study and teaching.

Academic writing.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p.)

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2004]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nick Tingle investigates the psychoanalytic dimensions of composition instruction in Self-Development and College Writing to boldly illustrate that mastering academic prose requires students to develop psychologically as well as cognitively. Asserting that writing instruction should be an engaging, developmental process for both teachers and students, he urges reaching for new levels of consciousness in the classroom to aid students in realigning their subjective relationships with knowledge and truth. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory and twenty years of experience as a teacher, Tingle outli

Contents:

Cover; Other Books in the Studies in Writing & Rhetoric Series; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Psychoanalysis and Development; 2. Academic Writing, Destabilization, and Extrospection; 3. Theory, Selfobjects, and Falseness; 4. The Transitional Environment and Intersubjectivity; 5. Departing Thoughts:The Self-Restoration of the Writing Instructor; Works Cited; Index; Author Biography; Series Statement

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-160) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8093-8875-8

OCLC:

645918337