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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction to the Book | |
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| What's Best in Speaking and Writing? | |
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| Introduction: "Speech" and "Writing" | |
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| Speaking and Writing as They are Used: The Role of Culture | |
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| Literacy Story: Three Basic Systems for Written Language | |
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| What's Good about Writing | |
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| Literacy Story: The Development of Alphabetic Writing in the Middle East | |
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| Speaking as a Process: What Can It Offer Writing? | |
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| Literacy Story: The Rebus | |
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| Speech as a Product: Nine Virtues in Careless Unplanned Spoken Language that Can Significantly Improve Careful Writing | |
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| Literacy Story: How We Got Spaces between Our Words | |
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| Intonation: A Virtue for Writing at the Root of Everyday Speech | |
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| Literacy Story: How Charlemagne and Alcuin Robbed Latin of Its Name | |
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| Can We Really Have the Best of Both Worlds? | |
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| Literacy Story: Two Stories of How Early Standard English Was Born | |
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| Speaking onto the Page: A Role for the Tongue in the Early Stages of Writing | |
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| Introduction: Speaking and Writing as Mental Activities | |
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| What Is Speaking onto the Page and How Does Freewriting Teach It? | |
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| Literacy Story: The Linguistic Brightness of the So-called Dark Ages | |
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| Where Else Do We See Unplanned Speaking onto the Page? | |
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| Literacy Story: Another Successful Rhetorician in the Court of Queen Isabella | |
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| Considering Objections to Speaking onto the Page | |
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| Literacy Story: Everyone Complains about Language, but No One Does Anything about It-Except Now and Then | |
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| The Need for Care: Easy Speaking onto the Page Is Never Enough | |
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| Literacy Story: An Example of a Collage from The New Yorker (July 5, 1982) | |
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| Reading Aloud to Revise: A Role for the Tongue during Late Stages of Writing | |
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| Introduction: What Is Standard English? | |
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| Revising by Reading Aloud: What the Mouth and Ear Know | |
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| Literacy Story: Syllabaries and Sequoyah's Invention in Arkansas in 1820 | |
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| How Does Revising by Reading Aloud Actually Work? | |
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| Literacy Story: When They Stopped Teaching Grammar | |
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| Punctuation: Living with Two Traditions | |
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| Literacy Story: The Rule about That and Which | |
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| Good Enough Punctuation by Careful Reading Aloud and Listening | |
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| Literacy Story: Languages Dying and Being Reborn | |
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| How Speech Can Improve the Organization of Writing: Form as Energy | |
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| Literacy Story: Three Countries with Competing Official Written Languages | |
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| Summary Chapter: The Benefits of Speaking onto the Page and Reading Aloud | |
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| Literacy Story: Chairman Mao Tries to Make Literacy More Available to the Chinese | |
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| Vernacular Literacy | |
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| Introduction: Dante's Vulgar Eloquence | |
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| How Our Culture of Proper Literacy Tries to Exclude Speech | |
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| Literacy Story: Illegal Alphabets | |
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| A New Culture of Vernacular Literacy on the Horizon | |
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| How Freewriting Went from Dangerous to No Big Deal in the Composition and Rhetoric Community | |
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| A Sampling of Published Writing in Non-Mainstream Varieties of English | |
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| Also | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Index | |