Elements of Alternate Style Essays on Writing and Revision

Name: Elements of Alternate Style Essays on Writing and Revision
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ISBN: 9780867094237

ISBN-10: 0867094230

ISBN-13: 9780867094237

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Authors: Wendy Bishop

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Elements of Alternate Stylecontributes to a better understanding of the writing process in general and the stylistic options available to every serious writer. It demonstrates how by teaching alternate and traditional styles in tandem, by focusing on revision as invention, we can help students become newly engaged with their textseven "school writing." In this edited collection, successful classroom instructors explore and apply these ideas, drawing from composition pedagogy, creative writing technique, and critical theory. The six essays in Part I delineate an initial classroom sequence. . The authors ask writers to try writing exercises and to reconsider how they have constructed essays…

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List price: $35.75
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 4/7/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



I. Invitations to Alternate Styles "Would You Like Fries with That?" Ordering Up Some Writing: Fast Food for Thought



Stretch a Little and Get Limber: Warming Up to (and with)



Fractured Narratives: Explorations in



Thirteen Ways of Looking at an Egg: An Assignment in Generation and Revision



The Case for Double-Voiced Discourse



Why Writers Relish Research: Alternative Writing Projects



Invitations to Risk Taking, Play, and Radical Revision It's Not Just Mumbo Jumbo: Taking Risks with Academic



As in Jazzing Around: The Roles "Play" Plays in Style



Distorting the Mirror: Radical Revision and Writers' Shifting Perspectives



Claiming the Language: Breaking Taboos in the Writing Classroom



"You Want to Do WHAT?"


How to Get the Most Out of Unexpected Writing Assignments



Issues in Writing in Alternate Styles 1 Reading, Stealing, and Writing like a Writer



Talk Is Writing: Style in Computer-Mediated Discourse



Putting Correctness in Its Place: Justifications for Teaching and Learning Alternate Grammars



Sympathy for the Devil: Editing Alternate Style



Appendix: Teaching and Learning Ideas