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Within and beyond the writing process in the secondary English classroom
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Boston, Mass. : Allyn and Bacon, 2003
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9780205305766

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This book combines an up-to-date, balanced, and integrated approach to writing instruction, focusing on both composition theory and practice. Within and Beyond the Writing Process in the Secondary English Classroom is a comprehensive book that covers teaching methods for all aspects of writing: personal writing, journal writing, responses to literature, essays, research papers, and writing to learn. The book combines the pedagogies of three instructional approaches to composition: an emphasis on the personal connections of writing, a focus on the importance of structure and audience, and the call to use writing for social action. This book fills the void regarding research and theory on grammar, correctness, and language variation, and lists the standards developed by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education and National Council of Teachers of English. For k-12 teachers, curriculum developers, etc.


Table of Contents

Each chapter concludes with "Points to Remember" and "For Further Reading."
1 Introduction: Writing as Holistic Practice
2 Psycholinguistic and Social Foundations
Basic Assumptions About Literacy
Cultural Differences in Literacy Development
Direct Instruction and Issues of Writing Development
3 Teaching Writing as a Process
The Traditional Writing Classroom
A New Model Emerges
Teaching Writing as a Process
4 Grammar, Correctness, and Style
Grammars Defined
The Developmental Nature of Syntactic Complexity
The Pendulum Swings
What Aspects of Grammar, Mechanics, and Usage Should We Teach? How Can We Teach Grammar, Mechanics, and Usage in the Context of Writing? Computers and Correctness
Correctness in the Linguistically Diverse Classroom
Sentence Variety
Wordiness and Other Aspects of Style
5 The Essay and Other Write-to-Learn Assignments
Write-to-Learn Assignments: A Definition
Invention, or Generating Topics for the Essay
Collecting Data
Writing the Body of the Paper
The Argument Paper
Rhetorical Modes of Discourse
The Research Paper
The I-Search Paper
The Social Issues or Problem-Solving Paper
Assessment of the Essay
Plagiarism
6 Responses to Literature and Nonprint Media
Instructional Purposes for Reading About Literature
Reader Response Criticism
Viewing Films as Texts
Formalism or New Criticism
The Historical Approach to Literature
Creative Writing as a Response to Literature
Aesthetic and Efferent Readings
Assessment of Writing as a Response to Literature
7 Assessing, Evaluating, Grading, and Responding to Student Writing
Terminology Defined: Responding, Assessing, Evaluating, Grading
Varieties of Evaluation and Response
Respond More, Grade Less: Guidelines for Evaluating Writing
The Not-So-Simple Act of Putting Grades on Papers
Portfolio Assessment
High-Stakes Assessment and the Politics of Testing
8 A History of Composition Pedagogy
The Beginnings of Rhetoric
Rhetoric in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Rhetoric and the Current-Traditional Essay
The Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Expressivist Essay
The Cognitivists, Neo-Rhetorists, and the Socio-Epistemists
Composition Literacy: The Blend of Several Approaches