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Conversations about Writing
- Eavesdropping, Inkshedding, and Joining In, First Edition , 1st Edition
- ISBN-10: 0176414983 ISBN-13: 9780176414986
- 460 Pages
- © 2005 Published
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Introduction.
A Letter to Students Using this Book.
1. Life Without Language.
Linda Trichter Metcalf & Tobin Simon, Putting Voice Back into Writing and Awakening the Auditory Imagination.
Helen Keller from The Story of My Life.
Malcolm X, Saved.
Eva Hoffman from Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language.
June Callwood, Why Canada Has to Beat Its Literacy Problem.
Stephen Pinker, An Instinct to Acquire Art; Chatterboxes.
2. Reflecting on the Writing Process.
Natalie Goldberg, Writing as Practice; The Power of Detail; Writers Have Been Good Figures; One Plus One Equals a Mercedes-Benz; Be an Animal.
Donald Murray, A Writer''s Habits.
Gail Godwin, The Watcher at the Gates.
William Stafford from Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer''s Vocation; You Must Revise Your Life.
Kim Stafford, My Father''s Place.
Alistair MacLeod, Writing the Known Life.
Student Writing: Inksheds.
3. Exploratory Writing and Inventions: Freewriting/Inkshedding/Writing-to-Learn.
Duncan Carter, Five Myths about Writing.
Maxine Hairston, The Winds of Change: Thomas Kuhn and the Revolution in the Teaching of Writing. Russell Hunt, What is Inkshedding?
Toby Fulwiler, Freshman Writing: It''s the Best Course in the University to Teach.
NCTE Commission on Composition, Guidelines for Using Journals in School Settings.
M. Elizabeth Sargent, Strategies for Writing-to-Learn/Invention Strategies; The Loop Writing Process.
James A. Reither and Douglas Vipond from Writing as Collaboration.
Sondra Perl, Guidelines for Composing.
Student Writing: Process-Writing Inksheds,
Writing-to-Learn Journal Inksheds.
Essay Summary/Annotation.
4. The Academic Writing Debate: What is Academic Writing for?
David Bartholomae, Writing with Teachers: A Conversation with Peter Elbow.
Peter Elbow, Being a Writer vs. Being an Academic: A Conflict in Goals.
Carolyn Matalene, Experience as Evidence: Teaching Students to Write Honestly and Knowledgeably about Public Issues.
Patricia Nelson Limerick, Dancing with Professors: The Trouble with Academic Prose.
5. The Grammar-as-Style Debate: Does Grammar Instruction Hurt of Help Student Writing?
Stephen Pinker from The Language Mavens.
Cornelia C. Paraskevas and M. Elizabeth Sargent, Understanding Grammar as Style.
Natalie Goldberg, Make Statements and Answer Questions; Very and Really.
Lewis Thomas Notes on Punctuation.
Student Writing: Inkshed.
6. Organization and Genre.
Rick McConnell, Beginning to Understand the Beginning.
Nancy Mairs, The Literature of Personal Disaster.
Robert Root, This is What the Spaces Say.
Mary Paumier Jones, Meander.
John C. Polanyi, Science and Arts: Two Ways of Seeing; Confessions of a Scientist.
Student Writing: Summary/Annotation; Interview with a Science Writer.
Quick Reference: Citation Styles.
7. Margaret Atwood, For whom does the writer write?
Nancy Mair from Voice Lessons: Becoming a (Woman) Writer.
Peter Elbow from Ranking, Evaluating, and Liking: Sorting Out Three Forms of Judgment.
Lori Mammen, When Teachers are Writers: An Interview with Peter Elbow.
Student Writing: New Beginning.
8. Raymond Carver, Foreword to John Gardner''s On Becoming a Novelist; On Writing.
Donald Murray, Internal Revision: A Process of Discovery.
Nancy Sommers, Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers.
David Bartholomae from The Study of Error.
M. Elizabeth Sargent, Preparing Final Copy.
Student Writing: Collage/Segmented Essay.
Bibliography: Other Voices to Bring into the Conversation.
Index of New Practices to Take Forward.
Quick Reference: The Craft of Punctuation.
Quick Reference: Joining Clauses.