On Writing: A Process Reader by Wendy Bishop
Organized around different aspects of the writing process, these selections--by published authors, students, and instructors--illuminate the art and the craft of writing.
On Writing: A Process Reader
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Organized around different aspects of the writing process, the selections in this work are written by published authors, students, and instructors. It aims to illuminate the art and craft of writing.
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Table of Contents
IntroductionsTo the Writing Student To the Writing Teacher Each chapter includes 'Connecting to Reading'; 'Connecting to Writing'; and Writing ProjectsChapter One: Writers and Ways of Writing Thinking About Definitions of "Writer" and the Processes Writers Choose and UseMoore, Lorrie: "How to Become a Writer."Marshal, Paule. "The Poets in the Kitchen."Wilbur, Richard: "The Writer." (poem)Yolen, Jane: "[on her writing process]".Weathers, Winston: "The Winston Weathers Writing Way: A Self-Examination."Williams, Terry Tempest Classroom authors:Debbie Olander: "The Fortunes"Brian Overcast: "Brambles"Chapter Two: The Literacy NarrativeThinking About the Literacy NarrativeBrown, Christy: "The Letter A"De Chungara, Domitila (with Moema Viezzer): "Let Me Speak!"Hughes, Langston: "Theme for English B." (poem)Mellix, Barbara: "From Outside, In."Rodriguez, Richard: "Going Home Again."Simpson, Eileen: "Dyslexia"Wright, Richard: "The Library Card."Tan, Amy: "Mother Tongue."Classroom authors:Armstrong, Stephen B.: "A Trip to the Lake" Bacque, E. Andree: "Drop Everything and Read"Olson, Chris: "Learning to Read: For Me It's Been the Struggle of a Lifetime."Chapter Three: Considering Community and AudienceThinking About Your Interactions With Other Writers and ReadersCorbett, Edward and Robert Connors: "A Brief Explanation of Classical Rhetoric."Rose, Mike: "The Discourse of Academics"Graff, Gerald: "Disliking Books at an Early Age"Aagard, John: "Listen Mr. Oxford Don."Dove, Rita: "To Make a Prairie."Witkin, Stanley L.: "Writing Social Work."Shen, Fan: "The Classroom and the Wider Culture: Identity as a Key to Learning English Composition."Fulwiler, Toby: "The Role of Audiences."Teaque, Deborah Coxwell: "Making Meaning - Your Own Meaning - When You Read"Classroom authors:Lauren, Benjamin: "What Are We Doing with Our Pennies?"Marcum, Leah V.: "Storm Surge."Reeves, Kenneth: "Freaks and Geeks"Chapter Four: Writing to Find Your Topic: Inventing, Exploring, DiscoveringThinking About Getting StartedLee, Spike: "Journal Entries: Do the Right Thing." Lamott, Anne: "Index Cards."Classroom Handout: Invention ExercisesWriting to Find Your TopicWriting about the Environment and Food and FamilyHaake, Katharine: "Exercise I: Beyond the End of Writing."Classroom handouts: Invention ExercisesCarver, Raymond: "Saturday Night."Classroom authors:Leah V. Marcum: "You've Got Mail (Whether You Want It or Not)Scott Arkin: "iChat"Chapter Five: Form to Develop Your Thoughts: Modes and TopicsThinking About How Form and Structure May Help Develop a Topic You Already HaveCorbett, Edward and Connors, Robert: "Formulating a Thesis." Hopkins, Evans D: "Lockdown."Staples, Brent: "Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space."Steiner, Donna: "Love Drunk."Trask, Haunani-Kay: "Tourist, Stay Home"Alexie, Sherman: "White Men Can't Drum."Ackerman, Diane: "Mute Dancers: How to Watch a Hummingbird."Kincaid, Jamaica: from "A Small Place"Lopez, Barry: "My Horse."Bishop, Wendy: "It's Not the Heat, It's the Humidity"Smith, Leonora: "The Five Paragraph Essay." (poem)Classroom authors:Gerrity, Maggie: "In Capital et Caritas"Giles, Sandra: "The Mediums, Their Message""The Medium" (earlier version of "The Mediums, Their Message")Fleming, Amanda: Essay on hunting and taxidermy and other digressions, in two versions."Not Your Typical Martha Stewart Decorating Tip""Girlfriend's Guide: 'Getting that Trophy Husband'"Chapter Six: Writers and Readers: Drafting, Responding, and RevisingThinking About Your Methods for Drafting, Responding, and RevisingLamott, Anne: "Shitty First Drafts."Godwin, Gail: "The Watcher at the Gates."Straub, Richard: "Responding, Really Responding to Writing."Elbow, Peter and Belanoff, Pat: "Summary of Ways of Responding."Classroom handout: The Executive SummaryFulwiler, Toby: "A Lesson in Revision."Dillard, Annie: "Transfiguration" and "How I Wrote the Moth Essay-And Why."Locklin, Gerald: "Amphibians Have Feelings Too" (poem)Pastan, Linda: "Marks" (poem)Classroom authors:Szczepanski, Jay: "On a Blackslick Road in Winter" and two earlier drafts Harmon, Tom: "Watch," "Radical Revision Guy," and "Radical Revision Process Narrative"Chapter Seven: Research and the Writer: A Joining of VoicesThinking About the Ways All Writers Are ResearchersElbow, Peter and Pat Belanoff: "Writing a Research Paper."Crossley, Gay Lynn: "Making Peace with the Research Essay--One Teacher's History."Goldthwaite, Melissa: "This Too Is Research"Wald, Catherine: "Research and the Fiction Writer."Greene, Stuart: "Argument as Conversation: The Role of Inquiry in Writing a Researched Argument"Classroom Authors:Harrington, Rachel: "Blizzard Baby."Vaccaro, Andrea: "What Exactly is a Guide Dog?"Torralba, Michael: "Radiohead's 'OK Computer'."Chapter Eight: Examining Experience: Story, Memory, and the EssayThinking About Story, Narrative, and the EssaySanders, Scott Russell: "The Most Human Art: Ten Reasons Why We'll Always Need a Good Story."Newman, Dean: "Becky's Mirror."Hampl, Patricia: "Memory and Imagination."Williams, Lynna: "We Told You This, Didn't We?"Kingsolver, Barbara: "In Case You Ever Want to Go Home Again."Murray, Donald: "Trying on the Essay"Bishop, Wendy: "Try This."Classroom authors:Gawrys, Keith: "The Legend of the Swine Creek Monster"Maddox, Carlyn: "How He Should Have Died"Szczepanski, Jay: "Story Told Simply"Chapter Nine: Language MattersThinking About Writers' Relationships to Language and StyleJulia Alvarez: "Bilingual Sestina." (poem)Rose, Mike: "Writing Around Rules."Joseph, Allison: "Rules of Conduct: Colored Elementary School, 1943." (poem)Autrey, Ken: "Prepositions in Alabama." (poem)Bishop, Wendy: "Reading, Stealing, and Writing Like a Writer."Classroom handouts: Style Revision Exercises and ExamplesMarius, Richard: "False Rules and What Is True about Them." Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.: "How to Write with Style."Iyer, Pico: "In Praise of the Humble Comma."Classroom authors: Andre, Sarah M.: "Self-Analysis of Style"Fleming, Amanda: "Style Analysis"
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CIN0072379391G
9780072379396
0072379391
On Writing: A Process Reader by Wendy Bishop
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
2003-10-16
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