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Reforming College Composition Writing the Wrongs
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Ray Wallace, Alan Jackson, Susan Lewis Wallace
Book Code: GM1093
ISBN: 0-313-31093-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31093-5
304 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 7/30/2000
List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £75.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Series Title: Contributions to the Study of Education
Series Number: 79
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
LC Card Number: 99-054456
LCC Class: PE1404
Dewey Class: 808
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