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Tables of Contents for A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xiii
ONE THE COMPOSING PROCESS
Why Teach Writing?
3
7
Writing as Economic Power
4
1
Writing as Social Necessity
5
1
Writing as Knowing
5
2
The Humanistic Perspective
7
1
An Overview of This Book
8
2
What Is Writing?
10
12
The Addresser
11
1
The Addressee
12
2
Context
14
1
Message
14
1
Contact
15
1
Code
15
3
Summary and Applications
18
4
What Does the Process Involve?
22
15
What Experience Tells Us
22
2
Published Accounts of the Process
24
1
Prewriting
25
2
Writing
27
2
Rewriting
29
3
Writing as Social Interaction
32
5
TWO RHETORICAL THEORY AND PRACTICE
What Do Teachers Need to Know about Rhetoric?
37
23
Preliminary Questions
37
2
What Is Rhetoric?
39
2
Classical Rhetoric
41
4
Medieval and Renaissance Rhetoric
45
3
The Renaissance to the Twentieth Century
48
4
Contemporary Rhetoric
52
6
Conclusion
58
2
What Do Teachers Need to Know about Linguistics?
60
26
Writing and Speech
62
1
The Nature of Language
63
3
Grammar and Usage
66
8
Approaches to Grammar
74
4
Structural Grammar
78
1
Generative-Transformational Grammar
79
4
The Association Model
83
3
What Do Teachers Need to Know about Cognition?
86
23
Creativity
87
1
Perception
88
5
Conception
93
1
Piaget
94
4
Moffett
98
2
Perry and Magolda
100
6
Implications
106
3
Prewriting Techniques
109
21
Perception Exercises
110
2
Brainstorming and Clustering
112
2
Freewriting
114
1
Journals
115
3
Heuristics
118
8
Models
126
4
Shaping Discourse
130
16
Form Consciousness
130
1
Discovering Form
131
5
Strategies for Teaching Form
136
2
Blocking
138
3
D' Angelo's Paradigms
141
5
Teaching Paragraphing
146
17
Traditional Views of the Paragraph
146
1
How Writers Paragraph
147
3
Relating Part to Whole
150
1
Generative Rhetoric of the Paragraph
151
4
A Sequence of Lessons
155
8
Teaching about Sentences
163
12
Sentence Combining
166
4
Cumulative Sentences
170
5
Teaching about Words
175
14
Parts of Speech
177
1
Active and Passive Voice
178
2
Derivational and Inflectional Affixes
180
2
Style
182
2
Additional Resources
184
2
Suggestions for Teaching Students about Language
186
3
Teaching Rewriting
189
24
Changing Attitudes
189
6
Writing Strategies Applied to Rewriting: Finding the Subject
195
2
Rewriting: Finding the Shape of Discourse
197
3
Rewriting: Finding Relationships in Paragraphs
200
2
Rewriting: Finding Sentence Problems
202
2
Writing Workshops
204
4
Student-Generated Criteria
208
5
THREE TEACHING AS RHETORIC
Developing Writing Assignments
213
9
Traditional Assignments
213
2
Defining a Rhetorical Problem
215
7
Responding to Student Writing
222
30
The Basics and Testing
222
2
Describing, Measuring, Judging
224
2
Diagnostic Reading
226
4
Teaching through Comments
230
13
Self-Evaluation
243
1
Atomistic Evaluation
244
1
Holistic Evaluation
245
3
Handling the Paper Load
248
4
Designing Writing Courses
252
28
Teaching as Rhetoric
252
2
General Principles of Course Design
254
2
Course Models
256
2
Active and Collaborative Learning
258
3
Preliminary Decisions
261
3
Course Outlines
264
2
Lesson Plans
266
4
The Teaching Performance
270
10
Teaching Writing with Computers
280
25
How Have Computers Been Used to Teach Writing?
281
1
Why Use Computers?
282
3
General Guidelines for Teaching with Computers
285
4
Word Processors
289
3
E-Mail
292
2
Newsgroups and Web Forums
294
1
Synchronous Communication
295
3
Courseware
298
1
The World Wide Web
299
6
Afterword
305
1
Some Important Dates in the History of Composition and Rhetoric
306
9
A Selected Bibliography
315
1
List of Works Consulted
316
23
Index
339