One: The Composing Process
1: Why Teach Writing?
2: What is Writing?
3: What Does the Process Involve?
Two: Rhetorical Theory and Practice
4: What Do Teachers Need to Know About Rhetoric?
5: What Do Teachers Need to Know About Linguistics?
6: What Do Teachers Need to Know About Cognition?
7: Prewriting Techniques
8: Shaping Discourse
9: Teaching Paragraphing
10: Teaching About Sentences
11: Teaching About Words
12: Teaching Rewriting
Three: Teaching as Rhetoric
13: Developing Writing Assignments
14: Responding to Student Writing
15: Designing Writing Courses
16: Teaching Writing with Computers
Afterword
Some Important Dates in the History of Compositio and Rhetoric
A Selected Bibliography
List of Works Cited
Index
"A valuable book for its outstanding coverage of the history of composition, its relation to other fields, and its concrete presentation of classroom pedagogy."--Greg Jacob, Portland State University
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