Writing on the Margins Essays on Composition and Teaching
by Bartholomae, DavidEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-11-27
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
A collection of twenty-one essays by David Bartholomae, Writing on the Margins includes selections that have helped shape the discipline of composition studies. With a wide-ranging introduction and three retrospective postscripts to set the essays in context, it serves as a valuable reference and as a powerful introduction to crucial issues in the field.
Author Biography
David Bartholomae is Chair, English Department, University of Pittsburgh.
Table of Contents
Part One: The Study of Error * The Study of Error * Released into Language: Errors, Expectations and the Legacy of Mina Shaughnessy * Inventing the University * Wanderings: Misreadings, Miswritings, and Misunderstandings * Writing on the Margins: The Concept of Literacy in Higher Education * Telling Secrets: Student Readers and Disciplinary Authorities, with Carolyn Ball & Laura Dice * Postscript: The Study of Error * Part Two: Teaching Composition * Teaching Basic Writing: An Alternative to Basic Skills * Writing Assignments: Where Writing Begins * Against the Grain * Wistful and Admiring: The Rhetoric of Combination * The Reading of Reading: I. A. Richards and M. J. Adler * Producing Adult Readers, 1930-1950 * The Argument of Reading * Stop Making Sense: An Interview with David Bartholomae * Introduction: Ways of Reading, with Anthony Petrosky * Postscript: Teaching Composition * Part Three: The Profession * Freshman English, Composition, and CCCC * The Tidy House: Basic Writing in the American Curriculum * What is Composition (and If You Know What That Is) Why Do We Teach It? * Composition: 1900-2000 * Literacy and Departments of Language and Literature * Reading and Writing in the Academy: A Conversation with David Bartholomae * Postcript: The Profession
Part One: The Study of Error * The Study of Error * Released into Language: Errors, Expectations and the Legacy of Mina Shaughnessy * Inventing the University * Wanderings: Misreadings, Miswritings, and Misunderstandings * Writing on the Margins: The Concept of Literacy in Higher Education * Telling Secrets: Student Readers and Disciplinary Authorities, with Carolyn Ball & Laura Dice * Postscript: The Study of Error * Part Two: Teaching Composition * Teaching Basic Writing: An Alternative to Basic Skills * Writing Assignments: Where Writing Begins * Against the Grain * Wistful and Admiring: The Rhetoric of Combination * The Reading of Reading: I. A. Richards and M. J. Adler * Producing Adult Readers, 1930-1950 * The Argument of Reading * Stop Making Sense: An Interview with David Bartholomae * Introduction: Ways of Reading, with Anthony Petrosky * Postscript: Teaching Composition * Part Three: The Profession * Freshman English, Composition, and CCCC * The Tidy House: Basic Writing in the American Curriculum * What is Composition (and If You Know What That Is) Why Do We Teach It? * Composition: 1900-2000 * Literacy and Departments of Language and Literature * Reading and Writing in the Academy: A Conversation with David Bartholomae * Postcript: The Profession
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