(English Composition)
- Offers journal articles from key scholars on important areas of writing instruction research.
- Provides other important articles that describe successful practices for teaching writing.
- Biographical notes provide background on the authors of most articles.
- Includes suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter.
- Revised to include more current research in important areas.
- Includes two new sections, one on computers and writing and another on audience and peer groups.
* Denotes selections new to this edition.
General Theories and Perspectives.
Edward P. J. Corbett, Mutual Friends: What Teachers Can Learn from Students and What Students Can Learn from Teachers.
Anne Ruggles Gere, Teaching Writing: The Major Theories.
* Janice M. Lauer, Instructional Practices: Toward an Integration.
* Lee Ann Carroll, Pomo Blues: Stories from First-Year Composition.
* Glynda Hull and Mike Rose, Toward a Social-Cognitive Understanding of Problematic Reading and Writing.
Audience and Peer Groups.
* Jack Selzer, More Meanings of “Audience.”
* Kenneth Bruffee, Consensus Groups: A Basic Model of Classroom Collaboration.
Composing and Revising.
Patricia Bizzell, Composing Processes: An Overview.
W. Ross Winterowd, Rhetorical Invention.
Ann E. Berthoff, Recognition, Representation, and Revision.
Critical Thinking and Reading in Writing.
Charles Bazerman, A Relationship between Reading and Writing: The Conversational Model.
John Peters, Five Ways of Reading a Text.
Margaret Kantz, Helping Students Use Textual Sources Persuasively.
Computers.
* Fred Kemp, Computer-Mediated Communication: Making Nets Work for Writing Instruction.
* Ellen Strenski, Online Reading between the Lines: Searching for and Evaluating Internet Information.
Argumentation.
Jeanne Fahnestock and Marie Secor, Teaching Argument: A Theory of Types.
* Richard Fulkerson, General Strategies in Argument.
Form and Style.
Richard M. Coe, An Apology for Form; or, Who Took the Form Out of the Process?
Betty Bamberg, What Makes a Text Coherent?
Edward P. J. Corbett, Teaching Style.
* Richard Lanham, Where's the Action?
Grammar.
Patrick Hartwell, Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar.
Muriel Harris and Katherine E. Rowan, Explaining Grammatical Concepts.
Designing, Responding to, and Evaluating Writing Assignments.
Leonard A. Podis and Joanne M. Podis, Improving Our Responses to Student Writing: A Process-Oriented Approach.
* Chris M. Anson, Reflective Reading: Developing Thoughtful Ways to Respond to Students' Writing.
Peter Elbow, Ranking, Evaluating, and Liking: Sorting Out Three Forms of Judgment.
* Marcy Bauman, What Grades Do for Us, and How to Do without Them.
Further Suggested Readings.
