Making writing matter : composition in the engaged university /
Annotation
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Making Writing Matter ; Contents ; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Making Writing Matter; What Is Engaged Scholarship?; Making Writing Matter for First-Year Students; Writing for Civic Engagement; How I Came to Write This Book; The Organization of This Book; Part One. The Place of Writing in the University; 1. Engaged Scholarship at the University; Changing the Kind of Thing We Do Around Here; Important Work, But Not University Partnership; How Discourse Drives Engagement; The New Learner Writes; Educating Citizens to Write; When Students "Walk" the City; 2. Writing as Participation.
- The Purloined PetitionInstitution, Genre, and Social Action; This Container Isn't Big Enough; Writing About What Others Have Written; Writing for Participation; Revision or Social Action?; Writing in a Community of Practice; 3. Telling Tales Out of School; When Is a Diary Not a Diary?; Down the Elevator; Both Ends Against the Middle; The University in Ruins; What's a Writing Program For?; The Mountain Makes Its Own Weather; Learning to Spell Rescission; The Grammar Sessions; Getting What You Wish For; Reflecting on Experience?; Part Two. Designing Instruction to Make Writing Matter.
- 4. Rethinking Reflection in Community-Based WritingA New Space for Teaching and Learning; Tales of Becoming a Writer; Performing in Writing; The Memoir and Its Truth or Consequences; On Not Assigning Literacy Narratives; Against Reflection; Recruiting Students for CCLCP; Developing Community-Based Partnerships; Designing a First-Year Curriculum for CCLCP; Recapping the Argument; 5. Assessing Writing and Learning in Community-Based Courses; Entering a New Situation; Situated Writing and Learning; Complicating Assessment; Developing an Assessment Matrix; Conducting Assessment.
- 6. Teaching the TeachersWriting About Essays; The Syllabus as Genre; Against First-Year Writing; The Paradox of Transferability; Designing Situated Writing Projects; A Manifesto for First-Year Writing; Notes; Works Cited; Index ; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.