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| Each chapter concludes with "Points to Remember" and "For Further Reading." | |
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| Introduction: Writing as Holistic Practice | |
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| Psycholinguistic and Social Foundations | |
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| Basic Assumptions About Literacy | |
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| Cultural Differences in Literacy Development | |
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| Direct Instruction and Issues of Writing Development | |
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| Teaching Writing as a Process | |
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| The Traditional Writing Classroom | |
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| A New Model Emerges | |
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| Teaching Writing as a Process | |
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| Grammar, Correctness, and Style | |
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| Grammars Defined | |
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| The Developmental Nature of Syntactic Complexity | |
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| The Pendulum Swings | |
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| What Aspects of Grammar, Mechanics, and Usage Should We Teach? How Can We Teach Grammar, Mechanics, and Usage in the Context of Writing? Computers and Correctness | |
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| Correctness in the Linguistically Diverse Classroom | |
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| Sentence Variety | |
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| Wordiness and Other Aspects of Style | |
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| The Essay and Other Write-to-Learn Assignments | |
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| Write-to-Learn Assignments: A Definition | |
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| Invention, or Generating Topics for the Essay | |
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| Collecting Data | |
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| Writing the Body of the Paper | |
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| The Argument Paper | |
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| Rhetorical Modes of Discourse | |
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| The Research Paper | |
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| The I-Search Paper | |
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| The Social Issues or Problem-Solving Paper | |
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| Assessment of the Essay | |
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| Plagiarism | |
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| Responses to Literature and Nonprint Media | |
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| Instructional Purposes for Reading About Literature | |
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| Reader Response Criticism | |
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| Viewing Films as Texts | |
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| Formalism or New Criticism | |
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| The Historical Approach to Literature | |
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| Creative Writing as a Response to Literature | |
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| Aesthetic and Efferent Readings | |
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| Assessment of Writing as a Response to Literature | |
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| Assessing, Evaluating, Grading, and Responding to Student Writing | |
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| Terminology Defined: Responding, Assessing, Evaluating, Grading | |
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| Varieties of Evaluation and Response | |
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| Respond More, Grade Less: Guidelines for Evaluating Writing | |
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| The Not-So-Simple Act of Putting Grades on Papers | |
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| Portfolio Assessment | |
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| High-Stakes Assessment and the Politics of Testing | |
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| A History of Composition Pedagogy | |
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| The Beginnings of Rhetoric | |
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| Rhetoric in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries | |
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| Rhetoric and the Current-Traditional Essay | |
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| The Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Expressivist Essay | |
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| The Cognitivists, Neo-Rhetorists, and the Socio-Epistemists | |
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| Composition Literacy: The Blend of Several Approaches | |