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Writing on the Margins

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A collection of 21 essays by David Bartholomae — one of the composition community’s most prominent members — Writing on the Margins: Essays on Composition and Teaching includes selections that have helped shape the discipline of composition studies. With Bartholomae’s wide-ranging introduction and three retrospective postscripts to set the essays in context, Writing on the Margins serves as a valuable reference — and as a powerful introduction to crucial issues in the field.

Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Living in Style


Part One: THE STUDY OF ERROR

The Study of Error

Released into Language: Errors, Expectations, and the Legacy of Mina Shaughnessy

Inventing the University

Wanderings: Misreadings, Miswritings, Misunderstandings

Writing on the Margins: The Concept of Literacy in Higher Education

Telling Secrets: Student Readers and Disciplinary Authorities, with Carolyn C. Ball and Laura Dice

Postscript: The Study of Error


Part Two: TEACHING COMPOSITION

Teaching Basic Writing: An Alternative to Basic Skills

Writing Assignments: Where Writing Begins

Against the Grain

Wistful and Admiring: The Rhetoric of Combination

The Reading of Reading: I. A. Richards and M. J. Adler

Producing Adult Readers: 1930–50

The Argument of Reading

Stop Making Sense: An Interview with David Bartholomae

Introduction: Ways of Reading, with Anthony Petrosky

Postscript: Teaching Composition


Part Three: THE PROFESSION

Freshman English, Composition, and CCCC

The Tidy House: Basic Writing in the American Curriculum

What Is Composition and (If You Know What That Is) Why Do We Teach It?

Composition, 1900–2000

Literacy and Departments of Language and Literature

Reading and Writing in the Academy: A Conversation with David Bartholomae

Postscript: The Profession

Index

Authors

David Bartholomae

DAVID BARTHOLOMAE (Ph.D., Rutgers University) is one of the composition community’s most highly regarded members. Professor of English and the Charles Crow Chair at the University of Pittsburgh, he has published widely on composition, rhetoric, literacy and pedagogy. He is a frequent lecturer to university faculty and writing projects nationwide. He has served as Chair of CCCC, President of the ADE, and on the MLA Executive Council. His awards include the MLA/ADE Francis A. March Award, the CCCC Exemplar Award, the CCCC Braddock Award, Pennsylvania Professor of the Year (2013), a Fulbright fellowship, and the University of Pittsburgh Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. With Jean Ferguson Carr, he edits the University of Pittsburgh Series, Composition, Literacy and Culture. His collection of essays, Writing on the Margins: Essays on Composition and Teaching (Bedford/St. Martin’s) won the 2005 MLA Mina Shaughnessy Award. After stepping down as English department chair in 2009, he has been deeply involved with Pitt’s program for Study Abroad.


A collection of 21 essays by David Bartholomae — one of the composition community’s most prominent members — Writing on the Margins: Essays on Composition and Teaching includes selections that have helped shape the discipline of composition studies. With Bartholomae’s wide-ranging introduction and three retrospective postscripts to set the essays in context, Writing on the Margins serves as a valuable reference — and as a powerful introduction to crucial issues in the field.

Table of Contents

Preface

Living in Style


Part One: THE STUDY OF ERROR

The Study of Error

Released into Language: Errors, Expectations, and the Legacy of Mina Shaughnessy

Inventing the University

Wanderings: Misreadings, Miswritings, Misunderstandings

Writing on the Margins: The Concept of Literacy in Higher Education

Telling Secrets: Student Readers and Disciplinary Authorities, with Carolyn C. Ball and Laura Dice

Postscript: The Study of Error


Part Two: TEACHING COMPOSITION

Teaching Basic Writing: An Alternative to Basic Skills

Writing Assignments: Where Writing Begins

Against the Grain

Wistful and Admiring: The Rhetoric of Combination

The Reading of Reading: I. A. Richards and M. J. Adler

Producing Adult Readers: 1930–50

The Argument of Reading

Stop Making Sense: An Interview with David Bartholomae

Introduction: Ways of Reading, with Anthony Petrosky

Postscript: Teaching Composition


Part Three: THE PROFESSION

Freshman English, Composition, and CCCC

The Tidy House: Basic Writing in the American Curriculum

What Is Composition and (If You Know What That Is) Why Do We Teach It?

Composition, 1900–2000

Literacy and Departments of Language and Literature

Reading and Writing in the Academy: A Conversation with David Bartholomae

Postscript: The Profession

Index

David Bartholomae

DAVID BARTHOLOMAE (Ph.D., Rutgers University) is one of the composition community’s most highly regarded members. Professor of English and the Charles Crow Chair at the University of Pittsburgh, he has published widely on composition, rhetoric, literacy and pedagogy. He is a frequent lecturer to university faculty and writing projects nationwide. He has served as Chair of CCCC, President of the ADE, and on the MLA Executive Council. His awards include the MLA/ADE Francis A. March Award, the CCCC Exemplar Award, the CCCC Braddock Award, Pennsylvania Professor of the Year (2013), a Fulbright fellowship, and the University of Pittsburgh Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. With Jean Ferguson Carr, he edits the University of Pittsburgh Series, Composition, Literacy and Culture. His collection of essays, Writing on the Margins: Essays on Composition and Teaching (Bedford/St. Martin’s) won the 2005 MLA Mina Shaughnessy Award. After stepping down as English department chair in 2009, he has been deeply involved with Pitt’s program for Study Abroad.


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