Berlin here continues his unique history of American college com-position begun in his Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century Colleges (1984), turning now to the twentieth century.
In discussing the variety of rhetorics that have been used in writ-ing classrooms Berlin introduces a taxonomy made up of three cate-gories: objective rhetorics, subjective rhetorics, and transactional rhetorics, which are distinguished by the epistemology on which each is based. He makes clear that these categories are not tied to a chronology but instead are to be found in the English...
Berlin here continues his unique history of American college com-position begun in his Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century Colleges (1...
Part critique of existing policy and practice, part call-to-action, " Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century" explores the complex linkage between technology and literacy that has come to characterize American culture and its public educational system at the end of the twentieth century.
To provide a specific case study of this complex cultural formation, award-winning educator Cynthia L. Selfe discusses the Technology Literacy Challenge, an official, federally sponsored literacy project begun in 1996 that has changedat fundamentally important levelsthe definition of...
Part critique of existing policy and practice, part call-to-action, " Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century" explores the complex lin...
In "Mutuality in the Rhetoric and Composition Classroom," David L. Wallace and Helen Rothschild Ewald point out the centrality of rhetoric in the academy, asserting the intimate connection between language and knowledge making. They also stress the need for a change in the roles of teachers and students in today s classroom. Their goal is mutuality, a sharing of authority among teachers and students in the classroom that would allow everyone an equal voice in the communication of ideas.Arguing that the impetus to empower students by engaging them in liberatory and emancipatory pedagogies is...
In "Mutuality in the Rhetoric and Composition Classroom," David L. Wallace and Helen Rothschild Ewald point out the centrality of rhetoric in the acad...
In "Rehearsing 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...
In "Rehearsing New Roles: How College Students Develop as Writers, "Lee Ann Carroll argues for a developmental perspective to counter the fantasy h...
Drawing on interviews and an array of scholarly work, Beth Daniell maps out the relations of literacy and spirituality in A Communion of Friendship: Literacy, Spiritual Practice, and Women in Recovery. Daniell tells the story of a group of women in "Mountain City" who use reading and writing in their search for spiritual growth. Diverse in socioeconomic status, the Mountain City women are, or have been, married to alcoholics. In Al-Anon, they use literacy to practice the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous in order to find spiritual solutions to their problems. In addition,...
Drawing on interviews and an array of scholarly work, Beth Daniell maps out the relations of literacy and spirituality in A Communion of Friendship...
Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching is a response to calls to enlarge the purview of literacy to include imagery in its many modalities and various facets. Kristie S. Fleckenstein asserts that all meaning, linguistic or otherwise, is a result of the transaction between image and word. She implements the concept of imageworda mutually constitutive fusion of image and wordto reassess language arts education and promote a double vision of reading and writing. Utilizing an accessible fourfold structure, she then applies the concept to the classroom, reconfiguring what...
Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching is a response to calls to enlarge the purview of literacy to include imagery in its ma...
It s no secret that, in most American classrooms, students are expected to master standardized American English and the conventions of Edited American English if they wish to succeed. "Language Diversity in the Classroom: From Intention to Practice "works to realign these conceptions through a series of provocative yet evenhanded essays that explore the ways we have enacted and continue to enact our beliefs in the integrity of the many languages and Englishes that arise both in the classroom and in professional communities.
Edited by Geneva Smitherman and Victor Villanueva, the...
It s no secret that, in most American classrooms, students are expected to master standardized American English and the conventions of Edited Ameri...
Just as the majority of books about computer literacy deal more with technological issues than with literacy issues, most computer literacy programs overemphasize technical skills and fail to adequately prepare students for the writing and communications tasks in a technology-driven era. "Multiliteracies for a Digital Age "serves as a guide for composition teachers to develop effective, full-scale computer literacy programs that are also professionally responsible by emphasizing different kinds of literacies and proposing methods for helping students move among them in strategic ways.Defining...
Just as the majority of books about computer literacy deal more with technological issues than with literacy issues, most computer literacy programs o...
Nick Tingle investigates the psychoanalytic dimensions of composition instruction in "Self-Development and College Writing "to boldly illustrate that mastering academic prose requires students to develop psychologically as well as cognitively. Asserting that writing instruction should be an engaging, developmental process for both teachers and students, he urges reaching for new levels of consciousness in the classroom to aid students in realigning their subjective relationships with knowledge and truth.
Drawing on psychoanalytic theory and twenty years of experience as a teacher, Tingle...
Nick Tingle investigates the psychoanalytic dimensions of composition instruction in "Self-Development and College Writing "to boldly illustrate th...
Responding to contemporary discussion about using personal accounts in academic writing, "Personally Speaking" "Experience as Evidence in Academic Discourse "draws on classical and current rhetorical theory, feminist theory, and relevant examples from both published writers and first-year writing students to illustrate the advantages of blending experiential and academic perspectives.
Candace Spigelman examines how merging personal and scholarly worldviews produces useful contradictions and contributes to a more a complex understanding in academic writing. This rhetorical move allows for...
Responding to contemporary discussion about using personal accounts in academic writing, "Personally Speaking" "Experience as Evidence in Academic ...