A Community of Writers
2nd Edition
Published on 1. January 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
592 pages
978-0-07-019693-3 (ISBN)
Description
This text provides a workshop approach to the teaching of composition. It addresses students as writers, challenging them to develop their skills by writing often, by exploring their writing processes, and by sharing their writing with others. The flexible workshops allow an instructor to organize and orient their course individually, and the book integrates readings - both student and professional - throughout. It also contains more than 100 writing assignments.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
930 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-019693-3 (9780070196933)
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Book
09/1999
3rd Edition
McGraw Hill Higher Education
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Content
Part 1 Workshops: introduction to writing and writing process; descriptive and narrative; introduction to collaboration and the loop writing process; private writing - pearl and open ended; public writing - audience and genres; interview; revising; persuasion; the essay; writing in the disciplines; interpreting a text; reading poems as a springboard to writing poems; argument; research; text analysis through figurative language; voice; revision - purpose/audience; writer's biography and your portfolio. Part 2 Mini-workshops: writing skills questionnaire; double-entry or dialectical notebooks; breathing life into words - text rendering and reading out loud; writing with a word processor; midterm and end-term responses to a writing course; the sentence and end-stop punctuation; commas; apostrophes; quotations and the punctuation of reported speech; spelling; copy-editing and proof-reading. Part 3 Sharing and responding: cover letter; summary of kinds of responses; procedures for giving and receiving responses; full explanation of kinds of responses with samples; sharing - no response; pointing and centre of gravity; summary and sayback; what is almost said?, what do you want to hear more about?; voice; movies of the reader's mind; metamorphical descriptions; believing and doubting; skeleton and descriptive outline; evaluation by criteria; sample papers.