Description: Writing Outside the Lines is a reader based on the idea that non-traditional students bring a wealth of life experience and knowledge to academia. This multi-genre anthology encourages readers of all ages to integrate their knowledge from school, work, and home into the process of learning and creating a working nexus of life learning and school learning. Rather than being skills driven, this book enables readers to draw on their personal strengths while learning academic thinking. Ethnography is the book's controlling metaphor; readers are encouraged to observe and interpret academic culture without giving up their own. The readings include student work as well as vivid pieces from published authors. The book's apparatus encourages critical reading, classroom discussion, collaborative work, and writing that merges powerful personal narrative with strong public voices. For anyone interested in composition.

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