Description: 1. Why Teach Writing?Writing as Economic PowerWriting as Social NecessityWriting as KnowingThe Humanistic PerspectiveAn Overview of This Book2. What Is Writing?The AddresserThe AddresseeContextCodeSummary and Applications3. What Does the Process Involve?What Experience Tells UsPublished Accounts of the ProcessPrewritingWritingRewritingWriting as Social InteractionPreliminary QuestionsWhat Is Rhetoric?Classical RhetoricMedieval and Renaissance RhetoricThe Renaissance to the Twentieth CenturyContemporary RhetoricConclusion5. What Do Teachers Need to Know about Linguistics?Writing and SpeechThe Nature of LanguageGrammar and UsageApproaches to GrammarStructural GrammarGenerative-Transformational GrammarTh Association Model6. What Do Teachers Need to Know about Cognition?CreativityPerceptionConceptionPiagetMoffettConclusion7. Prewriting TechniquesPerception ExercisesBrainstorming and ClusteringFreewritingJournalsHeuristicsModels8. Shaping DiscourseForm ConsciousnessDiscovering for Teaching FormStrategies for Teaching FormBlockingD'Angelo's Paradigms9. Teaching ParagraphingTraditional Views of the ParagraphHow Writers ParagraphRelating Part to WholeGenerative Rhetoric of the ParagraphA Sequence of Lessons10. Teaching about SentencesSentence CombiningCumulative Sentences11. Teaching about WordsParts of SpeechActive and Passive VoiceDerivational and Inflectional AffixesStyleAdditional ResourcesSuggestions for Teaching Students about Language12. Teaching RewritingChanging AttitudesWriting Strategies Applied to Rewriting: Finding the SubjectRewriting: Finding the Shape of DiscourseRewriting: Finding Relationships in ParagraphsRewriting: Finding Sentence ProblemsWriting WorkshopsStudent-Generated Criteria13. Developing Writing AssignmentsTraditional AssignmentsDefining a Rhetorical Problem14. Responding to Student WritingThe Basics and TestingDescribing, Measuring, JudgingDiagnostic ReadingTeaching through CommentsSelf-EvaluationAtomistic EvaluationHolistic EvaluationHandling the Paper Load15. Designing Writing CoursesTeaching as RhetoricGeneral Principles of Course DesignCourse ModelsActive and Collaborative LearningCourse OutlinesLesson PlansThe Teaching PerformanceSome Important Dates in the History of CompositionA Selected BibliographyList of Works ConsultedIndex

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