Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Writing - General

Have you struggled to expand your initial idea into a complete story? Plotting can be frustrating work What if there were a tool for this very problem, so you could navigate these uncharted waters as quickly as possible? A tool that starts with what you have (a situation, perhaps, or a group of characters) and sets you on the road to new possibilities?

Plotto does all this. Created by a master of "organized creativity," William Wallace Cook (one of the most prolific writers in history), Plotto has been prized by professional authors and screenwriters since its...

This book explores the effectiveness of the workshop in the Creative Writing classroom, and looks beyond the question of whether or not the workshop works to address the issue of what an altered pedagogical model might look like. In visualising what else is possible in the workshop space, the sixteen chapters collected in 'Does the Writing Workshop Still Work?' cover a range of theoretical and pedagogical topics and explore the inner workings and conflicts of the workshop model. The needs of a growing and diverse student population are central to the chapter authors' consideration of...

Noting a lack of sustained and productive dialogue about race in university writing center scholarship, the editors of this volume have created a rich resource for writing center tutors, administrators, and scholars. Motivated by a scholarly interest in race and whiteness studies, and by an ethical commitment to anti-racism work, contributors address a series of related questions: How does institutionalized racism in American education shape the culture of literacy and language education in the writing center? How does racism operate in the discourses of writing center scholarship/lore,...

In this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing instruction since the Dartmouth Seminar of 1966. "A Teaching Subject "offers a brilliant interpretive history of the first decades during which writing studies came to be imagined as a discipline separable from its partners in English studies. Postscripts to each chapter in this new edition bring the history of composition up to the present.

Reviewing the development of the field through five key ideas, Harris unfolds a set of issues and tensions that continue to shape the teaching of writing today. Ultimately,...

Although it is well known in other fields, the concept of "resilience" has not been addressed explicitly by feminist rhetoricians. This collection develops it in readings of rhetorical situations across a range of social contexts and national cultures. Contributors demonstrate that resilience offers an important new conceptual frame for feminist rhetoric, with emphasis on agency, change, and hope in the daily lives of individuals or groups of individuals disempowered by social or material forces. Collectively, these chapters create a robust conception of resilience as a complex rhetorical...

" What any body is and is able to do cannot be disentangled from the media we use to consume and produce texts. ---from the Introduction."

Kristin Arola and Anne Wysocki argue that composing in new media is composing the body is embodiment. In "Composing (Media) = Composing (Embodiment), " they have" "brought together a powerful set of essays that agree on the need for compositionists and their students to engage with a wide range of new media texts. These chapters explore how texts of all varieties mediate and thereby contribute to the human experiences of communication, of self, the...

This book describes an alternative way to teach Creative Writing, one that replaces the silent writer taking criticism and advice from the teacher-led workshop with an active writer who reflects upon and publically questions the work-in-progress in order to solicit response, from a writers' group as well as from the teacher. Both accompany the writer, first as readers and fellow writers, only later as critics. Because writers ask, they listen, and dialogues with responders become an inner dialogue that guides later writing and revision. But when teachers accompany writers, teaching CW...

If you want to learn how to shoot a basketball, you begin by carefully observing someone who knows how to shoot a basketball. If you want to be a writer, you begin by carefully observing the work of accomplished writers. Recognizing the importance that modeling plays in the learning process, high school English teacher Kelly Gallagher shares how he gets his students to stand next to and pay close attention to model writers, and how doing so elevates his students' writing abilities. Write Like This is built around a central premise: if students are to grow as writers, they need to...

Jason Palmeri s "Remixing Composition: A History of Multimodal Writing Pedagogy "challenges the longheld notion that the study and practice of composition has historically focused on words alone. Palmeri revisits many of the classic texts of composition theory from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, closely examining how past compositionists responded to new media. He reveals that long before the rise of personal computers and the graphic web, compositionists employed analog multimedia technologies in the teaching of composition. Palmeri discovers these early scholars anticipated many of our...

"In Shaping Language Policy in the U.S.: The Role of Composition Studies," author Scott Wible explores the significance and application of two of the Conference on College Composition and Communication s key language policy statements: the 1974 Students Right to Their Own Language resolution and the 1988 National Language Policy. Wible draws from a wealth of previously unavailable archived material and professional literature to offer for the first time a comprehensive examination of these policies and their legacies that continue to shape the worlds of rhetoric, politics, and composition....

Published for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, this bibliography provides an annual listing of scholarship on written English and teaching at the college level. Entries appear under six major categories:

Bibliographies and Checklists

Theory and Research

Teacher Education, Administration, and Social Roles

Curriculum

Testing, Measurement, and Evaluation

Listservs, Electronic Resources, and WWW Sites

This volume lists and annotates nearly two thousand articles, books, dissertations, and papers that, with few exceptions, appeared in 1995. It...

Published for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, this bibliography provides an annual listing of scholarship on written English and teaching at the college level. Entries appear under six major categories:

Bibliographies and Checklists

Theory and Research

Teacher Education, Administration, and Social Roles

Curriculum

Testing, Measurement, and Evaluation

Listservs, Electronic Resources, and WWW Sites

This volume lists and annotates nearly two thousand articles, books, dissertations, and papers that, with few exceptions, appeared in 1995. It...