Teaching Composition: Background Readings » (3rd Edition)

Addressing the concerns of both first-year and veteran writing instructors, this collection includes 30 professional readings on composition and rhetoric written by leaders in the field, accompanied by helpful introductions and activities for the classroom. The new edition offers up-to-date advice on helping students avoid plagiarism, improving online instruction, blogging, and more.

Preface     iii
Other Bedford/St. Martin's Professional Resources     xii
Teaching Writing: Key Concepts, Philosophies, Frameworks, and Experiences     1
Inventing the University   David Bartholomae     2
From Clueless in Academe   Gerald Graff     32
A Letter to Maggie   James Slevin     59
Language, Power, and Consciousness: A Writing Experiment at the University of Toronto   Guy Allen     65
From Playing the Role to Being Yourself: Becoming the Teacher in the Writing Classroom   Dawn Skorczewski     99
Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writing Class   James A. Berlin     117
Thinking about the Writing Process     139
Generating a Draft     140
Understanding Composing   Sondra Perl     140
Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language: A Cognitivist Analysis of Writer's Block   Mike Rose     148
Considering Audience     163
The Rhetorical Stance   Wayne C. Booth     163
Closing My Eyes as I Speak: An Argument for Ignoring Audience   Peter Elbow     172
Revising a Draft     195
Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers   NancySommers     195
Toward an Excess-ive Theory of Revision   Nancy Welch     207
Crafting Sentences     247
The Erasure of the Sentence   Robert J. Connors     247
A Generative Rhetoric of the Sentence   Francis Christensen     276
From The Making of Meaning   Ann E. Berthoff     292
Teaching Writing with Computers     305
Calling off the Hounds: Technology and the Visibility of Plagiarism   James P. Purdy     305
When Blogging Goes Bad: A Cautionary Tale about Blogs, Email Lists, Discussion, and Interaction   Steven D. Krause     325
Teaching Visual Literacy     337
Understanding Visual Rhetoric in Digital Writing Environments   Mary E. Hocks     337
Delivering the Message: Typography and the Materiality of Writing   John Trimbur     363
Responding to and Evaluating Student Writing     377
Responding to Student Writing   Nancy Sommers     377
Ranking, Evaluating, and Liking: Sorting Out Three Forms of Judgment   Peter Elbow     387
Portfolio Standards for English 101   Douglas D. Hesse     407
Error   Joseph Harris     416
Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar   Patrick Hartwell     437
Issues in Writing Pedagogy: Institutional Politics and the Other     466
Can Teaching, of All Things, Prove to Be Our Salvation?   Kurt Spellmeyer     467
Diversity, Ideology, and Teaching Writing   Maxine Hairston     475
The Politics of Teaching Literate Discourse   Lisa Delpit     491
Tutoring ESL Students: Issues and Options   Muriel Harris   Tony Silva     503
Becoming a Writerly Self: College Writers Engaging Black Feminist Essays   Juanita Rodgers Comfort     518
Bi, Butch, and Bar Dyke: Pedagogical Performances of Class, Gender, and Sexuality   Michelle Gibson   Martha Marinara   Deborah Meem     536
Annotated Bibliography     561
About the Contributors     573