My Account Wish List
Advanced Search
Print - Close Window
www.greenwood.com/catalog/GM1093.aspx
All Greenwood Products
Reforming College Composition Writing the Wrongs
(Click to Enlarge)
Ray Wallace, Alan Jackson, Susan Lewis Wallace, ed.
ISBN: 0-313-31093-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31093-5
304 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 7/30/2000
List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £91.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Description: As colleges and universities have responded to the demand of businesses and industries for graduates who can write effectively, Composition Studies has gained significance. However, while new theories and approaches to the teaching of writing have been proposed and implemented, many composition courses do not satisfactorily educate their students. This volume includes essays by writing specialists who are concerned with their own failure to improve their students' writing skills.

These contributors examine why entering college students still write poorly and why our various attempts to improve such poor writing skills have largely failed. They compare the promise of previously touted new methods, paradigm shifts, and curricular innovations with the reality of little change or improvement; they describe what their students can and cannot do in the writing classroom, even after 12 years of primary and secondary education; and they address what they see as needed reforms in the whole idea of college composition, especially for the first-year college student.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction by Ray Wallace, Alan Jackson, and Susan Lewis Wallace
    Writing The Wrongs: Voices of Concern
    First the Bad News, Then the Good News: Where Writing Research Has Taken Us and Where We Need to Take It Now by Wendy Bishop
    Composition at the End of Everything; or, The Bravery of Being Out of Range: What's Wrong with a Postmodern Composition Theory by Kelly Lowe
    Expressivisms as "Vernacular Theories" of Composing: Recovering the Pragmatic Roots of Writing Instruction by Don Bushman
    The Post Process Movement in Composition Studies by Bruce McComiskey
    Finding "the Writer's Way": What We Expected and How We've Erred by Gina Claywell
    The Writing Center and the Politics of Separation: The Writing Process Movement's Dubious Legacy by Christina Murphy and Joe Law
    Righting The Wrongs: Voices From The Trenches
    Readerless Writers: College Composition's Misreading and Misteaching of Entering Students by Ray Wallace and Susan Lewis Wallace
    Peer Review and Response: A Failure of the Process As Viewed From the Trenches by Lynne Belcher
    The Service Myth, or Why Freshman Composition Doesn't Serve "Us" or "Them" by Kerri Morris
    Preparing Composition Students for Writing in Their Careers
    Reforming College Composition by Don Samson
    Coming to Terms With the Freshman Term Paper by James C. McDonald
    The Bytes Are On, But Nobody's Home: Composition's Wrong Turns into the Computer Age by Rocky Colavito
    Technology, Distance, and Collaboration: Where Are These Pedagogies Taking Composition? by Linda Myers-Breslin
    Linguistics and Composition by Sara Kimball
    Writing and Righting The Future: Preparing New Voices
    Many Slip Twixt the Cup and the Lip: Teaching and Learning with Graduate Instructors by Janice Witherspoon Neuleib and Maurice Scharton
    Obscured Agendas and Hidden Failures: Teaching Assistants, Graduate Education, and First Year Writing Courses by Stuart C. Brown
    The Preparation of Graduate Writing Teachers: Creating Substance Out of Shadows by Beth Maxfield
    Cognition and Culture: Addressing the Needs of Student-Writers by Alan Jackson
    Breaking the Learning Monopoly: Acknowledging and Accommodating Student's Diverse Learning Styles by Eric H. Hobson
    Index
About the Author: RAY WALLACE is Department Head and Professor of English at Northwestern State University of Louisiana./e He has published numerous articles and is the coeditor of 3 other books on the teaching of writing.

ALAN JACKSON is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Georgia Perimeter College, where he teaches composition, literature, humanities, and introduction to technology./e He has published and presented widely on writing instruction, writing centers, linguistics, and Southern literature.

SUSAN LEWIS WALLACE is Instructor of English and Reading at Northwestern State University of Louisiana./e She has published several articles on writing center tutoring, developmental reading, rhetoric, and literacy.
LCC Class: 808
All rights reserved. Copyright © 1999-2009 ABC-CLIO
130 Cremona Dr., Santa Barbara, CA 93117 805-968-1911