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Subject Is Writing Essays by Teachers and Students

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ISBN-10: 0867095865

ISBN-13: 9780867095869

Edition: 4th 2006

Authors: Wendy Bishop, James Strickland

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Like earlier editions of the widely used Subject Is Writing, the Fourth edition continues the tradition of bringing first-year students into contact with provocative ideas and voices - some of them fellow students - that will change how they think about writing. Its fresh, direct approach will appeal to your sense of purpose and professionalism as it engages your students' interests and sensibilities. Both a classroom reader and a rhetoric for first-year college writing, The Subject Is Writing, Fourth edition has been enhanced with nine new essays that cover a wide variety of topics, including: keeping a writer's notebook taking an expressive approach to academic writing using…    
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Book details

List price: $35.00
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 2/3/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Preface to the Fourth Edition
From the Preface to the Third Edition
Acknowledgments
How Do Writers Find Their Subjects?
Writing as a Tool for Learning and Discovery
Composting with a Writer's Notebook: An Interactive Reading
Memories of Wandering Thoughts
Time, Tools, and Talismans
Putting the Composure in Composing; or, Why I Love My Game Boy
Invention Throughout the Writing Process
Choices Writers Make About Style, Voice, and Genre
Don't Tell Me What to Write: An Expressive Approach to Writing
Writing Stories in College
Hearing Voices: Yours, Mine, Others
Style: The Hidden Agenda in Composition Classes; or, One Reader's Confession
Special Topics: Craft and Skills Advice
Virtually Inspired: Computer Strategies for Revision
Does Spelling Count?
Developing Sentence Sense
Understanding Writing Assignments: Tips and Techniques
Tips for College Writing Success
Writers and Other Writers
Changing as a Writer
The Friendly Neighborhood Writing Center-Your Personal Trainer for Writing
The Cupped Hand and the Open Palm
Responding-Really Responding-to Other Students' Writing
Larger Issues in Writing
Writing Up Primary Research Observations: "Can We Use I?"
What Is a Grade?
That Isn't What We Did in High School: Big Changes in the Teaching of Writing
When All Writing Is Creative and Student Writing Is Literature
I Am Not a Writer, I Am a Good Writer
Access: Writing in the Midst of Many Cultures
Hint Sheets for Students and Teachers
Inventing Inventions
Understanding Writing Assignments
Your Journal
A Sampler of Creative Ways to Respond to a Literary Text
A Discussion of Drafting Levels
Revising Out-Expanding and Amplifying a Draft (Before Revising In)
Revision Exercises
A Few Words About Verbs
Description
Responding to Peer Writing Before a Full-Class Workshop
Suggestions for Submitting Writing Portfolios