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Reforming college composition : writing the wrongs

Author: Ray Wallace; Alan Jackson; Susan Lewis Wallace
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.
Series: Contributions to the study of education, no. 79.
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Reforming college composition.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000
(OCoLC)606448862
Online version:
Reforming college composition.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000
(OCoLC)609097081
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ray Wallace; Alan Jackson; Susan Lewis Wallace
ISBN: 0313310939 9780313310935
OCLC Number: 43114980
Description: xxx, 268 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Ray Wallace, Alan Jackson and Susan Lewis Wallace --
1. First the Bad News, Then the Good News: Where Writing Research Has Taken Us and Where We Need to Take It Now / Wendy Bishop --
2. Composition at the End of Everything; or, The Bravery of Being Out of Range: What's Wrong with a Postmodern Composition Theory? / Kelly Lowe --
3. Expressivisms as "Vernacular Theories" of Composing: Recovering the Pragmatic Roots of Writing Instruction / Don Bushman --
4. Post-Process Movement in Composition Studies / Bruce McComiskey --
5. Finding "The Writer's Way": What We Expected and How We've Erred / Gina S. Claywell --
6. Writing Center and the Politics of Separation: The Writing Process Movement's Dubious Legacy / Christina Murphy and Joe Law --
7. Readerless Writers: College Composition's Misreading and Misteaching of Entering Students / Ray Wallace and Susan Lewis Wallace --
8. Peer Review and Response: A Failure of the Process Paradigm as Viewed From the Trenches / Lynne Belcher --
9. Service Myth: Why Freshman Composition Doesn't Serve "Us" or "Them" / Kerri Morris --
10. Preparing Composition Students for Writing in Their Careers / Donald Samson --
11. Coming to Terms with the Freshman Term Paper / James C. McDonald --
12. Bytes Are On, But Nobody's Home: Composition's Wrong Turns into the Computer Age / J. Rocky Colavito --
13. Technology, Distance, and Collaboration: Where are These Pedagogies Taking Composition? / Linda Myers-Breslin --
14. Linguistics and Composition / Sara Kimball --
15. Many a Slip Twixt the Cup and the Lip: Teaching and Learning with Graduate Instructors / Janice Witherspoon Neuleib and Maurice Scharton --
16. Obscured Agendas and Hidden Failures: Teaching Assistants, Graduate Education, and First-Year Writing Courses / Stuart C. Brown --
17. Preparation of Graduate Writing Teachers: Creating Substance Out of Shadows / Beth Maxfield --
18. Cognition and Culture: Addressing the Needs of Student-Writers / Alan Jackson --
19. Breaking the Learning Monopoly: Acknowledging and Accommodating Students' Diverse Learning Styles / Eric H. Hobson.
Series Title: Contributions to the study of education, no. 79.
Responsibility: edited by Ray Wallace, Alan Jackson, and Susan Lewis Wallace.

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