Full Description
Neman's extensive revision of the first edition, (published by Merrill in 1980) takes into account the recent explosion of scholarly inquiry and research composition while remaining focused on the basic substance of pedagogy - the nurturing of the student mind. Her approach is student- centred , based on twenty-five years of classroom experience, and will both train its readers to teach writing and tactfully provide an opportunity for them to master writing skills themselves, Covers process, structure, grammar, documentation, narrative, poetry, and stylistic problems from nonstandard dialects.
Contents
Abbreviations to Notes and Works Cited PART I. THE STUDENT
1: Teaching the Student
PART II. THE WRITING PROCESS
2: Section A Teaching Expository Structure
3: Teaching Prewriting: Invention and Arrangement
4: Teaching the Writing Process
5: Teaching the Rewriting Stage: Structural Revision
Section B Teaching Expository Style
6: Teaching Audience and Voice: Help from the Art of Rhetoric
7: Teaching Grammar and Syntax: Help from the Science of Linguistics
8: Stylistic Problems from Nonstandard Dialects
Section C Teaching Special Kinds of Expository Essays
9: Teaching the Research Paper
11: Teaching Narrative Writing
12: Teaching Poetry Writing
PART IV. THE TEACHER
13: Responding to Students' Work
14: Assigning Writing
15: The Personal Teaching Approach
Works Cited
Subject Index
