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Rhetoric for Writing Teachers

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ISBN-10: 0195130456

ISBN-13: 9780195130454

Edition: 4th 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Erika Lindemann, Daniel Anderson

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From answering the question "Why teach writing?" to offering guidance in managing group work and responding to assignments, A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers provides a comprehensive introduction to the teaching of writing. Now in a fourth edition, this remarkably successful book features a new chapter by Daniel Anderson on teaching with computers and adds updated material on invention, intellectual development, and responding to students' writing. Describing instraightforward terms the cross-disciplinary scholarship that underlies composition teaching, it opens with chapters on prewriting techniques, organizing material, paragraphing, sentence structure, words, and revising that show…    
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Book details

List price: $119.99
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/5/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

The Composing Process
Why Teach Writing?
Writing as Economic Power
Writing as Social Necessity
Writing as Knowing
The Humanistic Perspective
An Overview of This Book
What Is Writing?
The Addresser
The Addressee
Context
Code
Summary and Applications
What Does the Process Involve?
What Experience Tells Us
Published Accounts of the Process
Prewriting
Writing
Rewriting
Writing as Social Interaction
Rhetorical Theory and Practice
What Do Teachers Need to Know about Rhetoric?
Preliminary Questions
What Is Rhetoric?
Classical Rhetoric
Medieval and Renaissance Rhetoric
The Renaissance to the Twentieth Century
Contemporary Rhetoric
Conclusion
What Do Teachers Need to Know about Linguistics?
Writing and Speech
The Nature of Language
Grammar and Usage
Approaches to Grammar
Structural Grammar
Generative-Transformational Grammar
Th Association Model
What Do Teachers Need to Know about Cognition?
Creativity
Perception
Conception
Piaget
Moffett
Conclusion
Prewriting Techniques
Perception Exercises
Brainstorming and Clustering
Freewriting
Journals
Heuristics
Models
Shaping Discourse
Form Consciousness
Discovering for Teaching Form
Strategies for Teaching Form
Blocking
D'Angelo's Paradigms
Teaching Paragraphing
Traditional Views of the Paragraph
How Writers Paragraph
Relating
Generative Rhetoric of the Paragraph
A Sequence of Lessons
Teaching about Sentences
Sentence Combining
Cumulative Sentences
Teaching about Words
Parts of Speech
Active and Passive Voice
Derivational and Inflectional Affixes
Style
Additional Resources
Suggestions for Teaching Students about Language
Teaching Rewriting
Changing Attitudes
Writing Strategies Applied to Rewriting: Finding the Subject
Rewriting: Finding the Shape of Discourse
Rewriting: Finding Relationships in Paragraphs
Rewriting: Finding Sentence Problems
Writing Workshops
Student-Generated Criteria
Teaching as Rhetoric
Developing Writing Assignments
Traditional Assignments
Defining a Rhetorical Problem
Responding to Student Writing
The Basics and Testing
Describing, Measuring, Judging
Diagnostic Reading
Teaching through Comments
Self-Evaluation
Atomistic Evaluation
Holistic Evaluation
Handling the Paper Load
Designing Writing Courses
Teaching as Rhetoric
General Principles of Course Design
Course Models
Active and Collaborative Learning
Course Outlines
Lesson Plans
The Teaching Performance
Some Important Dates in the History of Composition
A Selected Bibliography
List of Works Consulted
Index