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Teaching Writing: Landmarks and Horizons, edited by Christina Russell McDonald and Robert L. McDonald, is designed to present an overview of some of the major developments in the establishment of composition studies as a field during the past thirty-five years. The essays are theoretically grounded but are focused on pedagogy as well. Divided into two parts, the first presents nine landmark essays, selected and introduced by distinguished composition scholars, and the second brings together eight new essays by emerging scholars.
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Teaching Writing
Teaching Writing Landmarks and Horizons Edited by Christina Russell McDonald and Robert L. McDonald
With a Foreword by Gary Tate With a Postscript by Steve North
Southern Illinois University Press Carbondale and Edwardsville
Copyright © by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University Chapter copyright © by Kurt Schick All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Publication partially supported by a grant from the Faculty Development Committee at Virginia Military Institute. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Teaching writing : landmarks and horizons / edited by Christina R. McDonald and Robert L. McDonald ; foreword by Gary Tate. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. . English language—Rhetoric—Study and teaching. . Report writing—Study and teaching (Higher). I. McDonald, Christina R., – II. McDonald, Robert L., – PE.T '.'—dc ISBN --- (pbk.: alk. paper)
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Contents Foreword vii Preface xi Acknowledgments xv
Part One. Landmarks: Classic Essays on the Teaching of Writing . Pre-Writing: The Stage of Discovery in the Writing Process () . Introduced by Robert J. Connors . Rhetoric () . Introduced by Erika Lindemann . Writing as a Mode of Learning () Introduced by Lisa Ede and Andrea Abernethy Lunsford . The Study of Error () Introduced by John Trimbur . Responding to Student Writing () Introduced by Edward M. White . Reflections on Academic Discourse: How It Relates to Freshmen and Colleagues () Introduced by Lynn Z. Bloom . Rhetoric and Composition Studies: A Multimodal Discipline () . Introduced by Richard Leo Enos v
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. Two Views on the Use of Literature in Composition Freshman Composition: No Place for Literature () A Place for Literature in Freshman Composition () Introduced by Wendy Bishop
Part Two. Horizons: New Essays in Composition Pedagogy . The Slave of Pedagogy: Composition Studies and the Art of Teaching . Imagining Our Teaching Selves . Imaginative Literature: Creating Opportunities for Multicultural Conversations in the Composition Classroom . Irrigation: The Political Economy of Personal Experience . . What Are Styles and Why Are We Saying Such Terrific Things about Them? , , , , , , , , . Valuating Academic Writing . Brave New (Cyber)World: From Reader to Navigator . . Learning to Walk the Walk: Mentors, Theory, and Practice in Composition Pedagogy Postscript: The One Who Attends