ERIC ED474209: Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader. Second Edition, Revised and Updated.

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Villanueva, Victor, Ed.
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Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader. Second Edition, Revised
TITLE
and Updated.
National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL.
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ISBN-0-8141-0976-4
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2003-00-00
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873p.; For the first edition (1997), see ED 402 614.
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Audience Awareness; College Students; Higher Education;
DESCRIPTORS
*Rhetoric; *Theory Practice Relationship; *Writing
(Composition); *Writing Instruction; *Writing Processes
Collaborative Learning; *Composition Theory; Writing Contexts
IDENTIFIERS
ABSTRACT
This revised and updated resource contains a total of 43
essays that serve to initiate graduate students and more experienced teachers
into the theories that inform composition studies. Under Section One--The
Givens in Our Conversations: The Writing Process--are these essays: "Teach
Writing as a Process Not Product" (Donald M. Murray); "Writing as a Mode of
Learning" (Janet Emig); "The Composing Processes of Unskilled College
Writers" (Sondra Perl); "Revision Strategies of Student Writers and
Experienced Adult Writers" (Nancy Sommers); "The Writer's Audience Is Always
a Fiction" (Walter J. Ong); "Audience Addressed/Audience Invoked: The Role of
Audience in Composition Theory and Pedagogy" (Lisa Ede and Andrea Lunsford);
"Post-Process 'Pedagogy': A Philosophical Exercise" (Lee-Ann M. Kastman
Breuch). Under Section Two--Talking in Terms of Discourse: What It Is; How
It's Taught--are these essays: "Basic Aims of Discourse" (James L. Kinneavy);
"An Ontological Basis for a Modern Theory of the Composing Process" (Frank J.
D'Angelo); "Spectator Role and the Beginnings of Writing" (James Britton); "A
Discourse-Centered Rhetoric of the Paragraph" (Paul C. Rodgers, Jr.);
"Frequency and Placement of Topic Sentences in Expository Prose" (Richard
Braddock); "Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar" (Patrick
Hartwell); "Coherence, Cohesion, and Writing Quality" (Stephen P. Witte and
Lester Faigley); "Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical
Theories" (James A. Berlin). Under Section Three--Scientific Talk:
Developmental Schemes--are these essays: "A Cognitive Process Theory of
Writing" (Linda Flower and John R. Hayes); "Cognitive Development and the
Basic Writer" (Andrea A. Lunsford); "Diving In: An Introduction to Basic
Writing" (Mina P. Shaughnessy); "William Perry and Liberal
Education" (Patricia Bizzell); "Is Teaching Still Possible? Writing, Meaning,
and Higher Order Reasoning" (Ann E. Berthoff); "Narrowing the Mind and Page:
Remedial Writers and Cognitive Reductionism" (Mike Rose); "Cognition,
Convention, and Certainty: What We Need to Know about Writing" (Patricia
Bizzell). Under Section Four--Talking about Writing in Society--are these
essays: "Collaborative Learning and the 'Conversation of Mankind'" (Kenneth
A. Bruffee); "Reality, Consensus, and Reform in the Rhetoric of Composition
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from the original document.
Teaching" (Greg Myers); "Consensus and Difference in Collaborative
Learning" (John Trimbur); "'Contact Zones' and English Studies" (Patricia
Bizzell); "Professing Multiculturalism: The Politics of Style in the Contact
Zone" (Min-Zhan Lu). Under Section Five--Talking about Selves and Schools: On
,
Voice, Voices, and Other Voices--are these essays: "Democracy, Pedagogy, and
the Personal Essay" (Joel Haefner); "Beyond the Personal: Theorizing a
Politics of Location in Composition Research" (Gesa E. Kirsch and Joy S.
Ritchie); "Language of Exclusion: Writing Instruction at the
University" (Mike Rose); "Composing as a Woman" (Elizabeth A. Flynn);
"Feminism in Composition: Inclusion, Metonymy, and Disruption" (Joy Ritchie
and Kathleen Boardman); "When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your
Own" (Jacqueline Jones Royster); "Inventing the University" (David
Bartholomae); "Arts of Complicity: Pragmatism and the Culture of
Schooling" (Richard E. Miller); "On the Subjects of Class and Gender in 'The
Literacy Letters'" (Linda Brodkey); "Diversity, Ideology, and Teaching
Writing" (Maxine Hairston). Under Section Six--Continuing the Conversation-
are these essays: "Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writing Class" (James
Berlin); "Cognition, Context, and Theory Building" (Linda Flower);
"Composition Studies and ESL Writing: A Disciplinary Division of Labor" (Paul
Kei Matsuda); "Distant Voices: Teaching and Writing in a Culture of
Technology" (Chris M. Anson); "The Public Intellectual, Service Learning, and
Activist Research" (Ellen Cushman); and "On the Rhetoric and Precedents of
Racism" (Victor Villanueva). Contains a 77-item resource list.
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from the original document.
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Cora Lee Five, Ray Levi, Andrea Lunsford, Jaime Armin Mejia, Carolyn Phipps,
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IN COMP THEORY
CROSS-TALK
A Reader
Second Edition
Revised and Updated
Edited by
Victor Villanueva
Washington State University
National Council of Teachers of English
11 1 1 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, Illinois
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Cross-talk in comp theory : a reader / edited by Victor Villanueva. -
2nd ed., rev. and updated.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8141-0976-4
1. English languageComposition and exercisesStudy and teaching.
2. English languageRhetoricStudy and teaching. I. Villanueva,
Victor, 1948-
PE1404.C755 2003
808'.042'071dc21
2002156573
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Preface to the Second Edition
xi
Preface to the First Edition
xiii
SECTION ONE
The Givens in Our Conversations:
The Writing Process
1
Teach Writing as a Process Not Product
3
Donald M. Murray
Writing as a Mode of Learning
7
Janet Emig
The Composing Processes of Unskilled College Writers
17
Sondra Perl
Revision Strategies of Student Writers
and Experienced Adult Writers
43
Nancy Sommers
The Writer's Audience Is Always a Fiction
55
Walter J. Ong, S.J.
Audience Addressed/Audience Invoked: The Role of Audience
in Composition Theory and Pedagogy
77
Lisa Ede and Andrea Luns ford
Post-Process "Pedagogy": A Philosophical Exercise
97
Lee-Ann M. Kastman Breuch
Cross-Talk in Comp Theory
SECTION Two
Talking in Terms of Discourse:
127
What It Is; How It's Taught
The Basic Aims of Discourse
129
James L. Kinneavy
An Ontological Basis for a Modern Theory
of the Composing Process
141
Frank J. D'Angelo
Spectator Role and the Beginnings of Writing
151
James Britton
A Discourse-Centered Rhetoric of the Paragraph
175
Paul C. Rodgers, Jr.
The Frequency and Placement of Topic Sentences
in Expository Prose
189
Richard Braddock
Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar
205
Patrick Hartwell
Coherence, Cohesion, and Writing Quality
235
Stephen P. Witte and Lester Faigley
Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical Theories
255
James A. Berlin
SECTION THREE
271
Scientific Talk: Developmental Schemes
A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing
273
Linda Flower and John R. Hayes
Cognitive Development and the Basic Writer
299
Andrea A. Lunsford
Diving In: An Introduction to Basic Writing
311
Mina P. Shaughnessy
William Perry and Liberal Education
319
Patricia Bizzell
vi
Table of Contents
Is Teaching Still Possible? Writing, Meaning,
and Higher Order Reasoning
329
Ann E. Berthoff
Narrowing the Mind and Page: Remedial Writers
and Cognitive Reductionism
345
Mike Rose
Cognition, Convention, and Certainty: What We Need
to Know about Writing
387
Patricia Bizzell
SECTION FOUR
413
Talking about Writing in Society
Collaborative Learning and the "Conversation of Mankind"
415
Kenneth A. Bruffee
Reality, Consensus, and Reform in the Rhetoric
of Composition Teaching
437
Greg Myers
Consensus and Difference in Collaborative Learning
461
John Trimbur
"Contact Zones" and English Studies
479
Patricia Bizzell
Professing Multiculturalism: The Politics of Style
in the Contact Zone
487
Min-Zhan Lu
SECTION FIVE
Talking about Selves and Schools:
On Voice, Voices, and Other Voices
505
Democracy, Pedagogy, and the Personal Essay
509
Joel Haefner
Beyond the Personal: Theorizing a Politics of Location
in Composition Research
523
Gesa E. Kirsch and Joy S. Ritchie
The Language of Exclusion: Writing Instruction at the University
547
Mike Rose
vii