Writing on the Margins
Essays on Composition and TeachingFirst Edition| ©2005 David Bartholomae
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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.
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Writing on the Margins
First Edition| 2005
David Bartholomae
Table of Contents
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
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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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Writing on the Margins
First Edition| 2005
David Bartholomae
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