Full Description
Essays on Writing explores social and cultural facets of writing as well as practices of writing in a brief inexpensive reader.
Contents
Preface for the Student
Preface for the Instructor
Acknowledgements
1. Attitudes
Introduction
Roy Peter Clark, "I Won't Use Writing as Punishment. I Won't. . . ."
Dick Harrington, "Writing about General Apache"
John Holt, "Making Children Hate Reading"
Melissa Duffy, "Inspiration"
bell hooks, "writing autobiography"
Craig Vetter, "Bonehead Writing"
Stanley Aronowitz, "Writing Is Not a Skill"
End-of-Chapter Thinking and Writing
2. Practice
Introduction
Sandra Boynton,"Five Paragraph Theme"
Gayle Brandeis, "Dyr Mom: Wy R You So Laveable?"
Susan Wyche, "Time, Tools, and Talismans"
William Stafford, "A Way of Writing"
Anne Lamott, "Shitty First Drafts"
Donald Murray, "Internal Revision"
William Zinsser, "Simplicity"
End-of-Chapter Thinking and Writing
3. Voice
Introduction
Lizbeth A. Bryant, "Disruptive 'Sexual' Voices in English 101"
Linda Christensen, "Teaching Standard English: Whose Standard?"
Nora McCarthy, "Flipping the Script: Exploring the Relationship between Form and Content in Teen Writing"
Rebecca Moore Howard, "A Plagiarism Pentimento"
Keith D. Miller, "Redefining Plagiarism: Martin Luther King's Use of an Oral Tradition"
End-of-Chapter Thinking and Writing
4 Technology and Integrity
Introduction
Wendy Leibowitz, "Technology Transforms Writing and the Teaching of Writing"
Heather Hunter, "Traveling the Too-Much-Information Highway"
Seth Stevenson, "Adventures in Cheating"
Nicole Kristal, "Tutoring' Rich Kids Cost Me My Dreams"
Maureen Hourigan, "Of Plagiarism, Paper Mills and the Harried, Hurried Student"
End-of-Chapter Thinking and Writing
5. Impact
Introduction
Adam Liptak, "Judge Finds a Typo-Prone Lawyer Guilty of Bad Writing"
Sam Dillon, "What Corporate America Can't Build: A Sentence"
C.W. Griffin, "Three Mile Island and the Billion Dollar Memo"
Karen Cangialosi, "Healing Through the Written Word"
Carol Avery, "Laura's Legacy"
Margaret Atwood, "Spelling"
Mary Pipher, 'Writing to Connect"
End-of-Chapter Thinking and Writing
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