Developing Discourse Practices in Adolescence and Adulthood

by Richard Beach, Susan Hynds

Overview

Since 1996, Elspeth Thompson has chronicled the successes and disasters that beset her tiny London garden and her allotment in a regular column in the Sunday Telegraph. In this second instalment of columns, Elspeth charts the trials of gardening in the country at weekends, having taken on a potter's cottage in Winchelsea, East Sussex, the development of her allotment and the onggoing joys of ther itny back garden in Brixton.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780893916022
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/01/1990
Series:	Advances in Discourse Processes , #39
Pages:	438
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

ach /f Richard

ds /f Susan

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Model of Discourse Development
Reading and Writing as Social Activities
The Answers Are Not in the Back of the Book: Developing Discourse Practices in First-Year English
THE SOCIAL STANCE
The Artful Conversation: Characterizing the Development of Advanced Literacy
Making Sense of Reading
The Development of Poetic Understanding During Adolescence
Writing and Reasoning about Literature
THE TEXTUAL STANCE
Writers, Judges and Text Models
The Development of Persuasive
Argumentative Writing
Adolescents' Uses of Intertextual Links to Understand Literature
Verbocentrism, Dualism, and Oversimplification: The Need for New Vistas for Reading Comprehension Research and Practice
THE INSTITUTIONAL STANCE
Developing Reflective Thinking and Writing
Teaching English for Reflective Thinking
Reading, Writing, and the Prose of the School
THE FIELD STANCE
Telling Secrets: Student Readers and Disciplinary Authorities
Assessing Literacy Learning with Adults: An Ideological Approach
Developmental Challenges, Developmental Tensions: A Heuristic for Curricular Thinking
Author Index
Subject Index

Editorial Reviews

Examines how people develop their reading and writing skills during adolescence and adulthood. This collection is based on the premise that four basic stances (orientations) underlie the discourse practices: social, textual, institutional, and field. These four stances form the organizing rubric for these 17 papers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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