Essays on Writing, A Longman Topics Reader / Edition 1

by Lizbeth Bryant, Heather Clark

Overview

Essays on Writing explores social and cultural facets of writing as well as practices of writing in a brief inexpensive reader.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780205521449
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	10/28/2008
Series:	Longman Topics Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Preface for the Student

Preface for the Instructor

Acknowledgements

1. Attitudes

Introduction

Roy Peter Clark, "I Won’t Use Writing as Punishment. I Won’t. . . ."

Dick Harrington, "Writing about General Apache"

John Holt, "Making Children Hate Reading"

Melissa Duffy, "Inspiration"

bell hooks, "writing autobiography"

Craig Vetter, "Bonehead Writing"

Stanley Aronowitz, "Writing Is Not a Skill"

End-of-Chapter Thinking and Writing

2. Practice

Introduction

Sandra Boynton,"Five Paragraph Theme"

Gayle Brandeis, "Dyr Mom: Wy R You So Laveable?"

Susan Wyche, "Time, Tools, and Talismans"

William Stafford, "A Way of Writing"

Anne Lamott, "Shitty First Drafts"

Donald Murray, "Internal Revision"

William Zinsser, "Simplicity"

End-of-Chapter Thinking and Writing

3. Voice

Introduction

Lizbeth A. Bryant, "Disruptive ‘Sexual’ Voices in English 101"

Linda Christensen, "Teaching Standard English: Whose Standard?"

Nora McCarthy, "Flipping the Script: Exploring the Relationship between Form and Content in Teen Writing"

Rebecca Moore Howard, "A Plagiarism Pentimento"

Keith D. Miller, "Redefining Plagiarism: Martin Luther King’s Use of an Oral Tradition"

End-of-Chapter Thinking and Writing

4 Technology and Integrity

Introduction

Wendy Leibowitz, "Technology Transforms Writing and the Teaching of Writing"

Heather Hunter, "Traveling the Too-Much-Information Highway"

Seth Stevenson, "Adventures in Cheating"

Nicole Kristal, "Tutoring’ Rich Kids Cost Me My Dreams"

Maureen Hourigan, "Of Plagiarism, Paper Mills and the Harried, Hurried Student"

End-of-Chapter Thinking and Writing

5. Impact

Introduction

Adam Liptak, "Judge Finds a Typo-Prone Lawyer Guilty of Bad Writing"

Sam Dillon, "What Corporate America Can’t Build: A Sentence"

C.W. Griffin, "Three Mile Island and the Billion Dollar Memo"

Karen Cangialosi, "Healing Through the Written Word"

Carol Avery, "Laura’s Legacy"

Margaret Atwood, "Spelling"

Mary Pipher, 'Writing to Connect"

End-of-Chapter Thinking and Writing

Credits