Rehearsing New Roles How College Students Develop As Writers

Name: Rehearsing New Roles How College Students Develop As Writers
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ISBN: 9780809324491

ISBN-10: 0809324490

ISBN-13: 9780809324491

Edition: 2002

Authors: Lee Ann Carroll

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InRehearsing New Roles: How College Students Develop as Writers,Lee Ann Carroll argues for a developmental perspective to counter the fantasy held by many college faculty that students should, or could, be taught to write once so that ever after, they can write effectively on any topic, any place, any time. Carroll demonstrates in this volume why a one- or two-semester, first-year course in writing cannot meet all the needs of even more experienced writers. She then shows how students’ complex literacy skills develop slowly, often idiosyncratically, over the course of their college years, as they choose or are coerced to take on new roles as writers. nbsp; As evidence, Carroll offers a…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 10/25/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



A Preview of Writing Development


Writing Ability and Literacy Tasks


Examining Writing and Literacy Across Academic Disciplines


Profiles of Writing Development


A Cultural/Environmental View of Development


Challenging Faculty Fantasies About Writing


An Admonition, a Dispensation, and a Challenge



Studying College Writers: Context and Methods


Writing and Literacy in a Cultural Context


A Qualitative Methodology for Studying Development



Riding the Literacy Roller Coaster in General Education and First-Year Composition


Auditing Writing in Years One and Two


Writing That Works in General Education


Don't They Learn That in English?


Conflict and Resistance: Altering "Normal" Ways of Writing


What Composition Can/Not Teach


Writing Development in a Great Books Program


Teaching the Real Basics



Supporting Writing Development Across Disciplines


Direct Teaching of Writing, Research, and Ways of Knowing


Responding to Student Writers: Comments and Grades


Responding to Student Writers: Correcting Errors, Revising Style


Response from Peers


Learning Through Experience


Constraints on Writing


Student Writing Strategies


Performing New Roles



A Concluding Look at Development


The Role of First-Year Writing Courses


Adding an Upper-Level Writing Requirement


Assessing Writing Proficiency and Development


Recommendations for Instruction


Thinking Longitudinally


Appendix A


Appendix B


References


Index