Developing Discourse Practices in Adolescence and Adulthood
Published on 1. January 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
426 pages
978-0-89391-662-6 (ISBN)
Description
Since 1996, Elspeth Thompson has chronicled the successes and disasters that beset her tiny London garden and her allotment in a regular column in the Sunday Telegraph. In this second instalment of columns, Elspeth charts the trials of gardening in the country at weekends, having taken on a potter's cottage in Winchelsea, East Sussex, the development of her allotment and the onggoing joys of ther itny back garden in Brixton.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
661 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-89391-662-6 (9780893916626)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Richard Beach, Susan Hynds
Content
Introduction: A Model of Discourse Development
Reading and Writing as Social Activities
The Answers Are Not in the Back of the Book: Developing Discourse Practices in First-Year English
THE SOCIAL STANCE
The Artful Conversation: Characterizing the Development of Advanced Literacy
Making Sense of Reading
The Development of Poetic Understanding During Adolescence
Writing and Reasoning about Literature
THE TEXTUAL STANCE
Writers, Judges and Text Models
The Development of Persuasive
Argumentative Writing
Adolescents' Uses of Intertextual Links to Understand Literature
Verbocentrism, Dualism, and Oversimplification: The Need for New Vistas for Reading Comprehension Research and Practice
THE INSTITUTIONAL STANCE
Developing Reflective Thinking and Writing
Teaching English for Reflective Thinking
Reading, Writing, and the Prose of the School
THE FIELD STANCE
Telling Secrets: Student Readers and Disciplinary Authorities
Assessing Literacy Learning with Adults: An Ideological Approach
Developmental Challenges, Developmental Tensions: A Heuristic for Curricular Thinking
Author Index
Subject Index
Reading and Writing as Social Activities
The Answers Are Not in the Back of the Book: Developing Discourse Practices in First-Year English
THE SOCIAL STANCE
The Artful Conversation: Characterizing the Development of Advanced Literacy
Making Sense of Reading
The Development of Poetic Understanding During Adolescence
Writing and Reasoning about Literature
THE TEXTUAL STANCE
Writers, Judges and Text Models
The Development of Persuasive
Argumentative Writing
Adolescents' Uses of Intertextual Links to Understand Literature
Verbocentrism, Dualism, and Oversimplification: The Need for New Vistas for Reading Comprehension Research and Practice
THE INSTITUTIONAL STANCE
Developing Reflective Thinking and Writing
Teaching English for Reflective Thinking
Reading, Writing, and the Prose of the School
THE FIELD STANCE
Telling Secrets: Student Readers and Disciplinary Authorities
Assessing Literacy Learning with Adults: An Ideological Approach
Developmental Challenges, Developmental Tensions: A Heuristic for Curricular Thinking
Author Index
Subject Index