Refiguring Prose Style : Possibilities For Writing Pedagogy / / edited by T.R. Johnson, Tom Pace

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910213816203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 2005; ©2005
• ISBN: 1-283-26725-X; 9786613267252; 0-87421-519-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (327 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): PaceTom <1969->; JohnsonT. R. <1964->
• Disciplina: 808/.042/0711; 808.0420711
• Soggetti: Report writing - Study and teaching; Interdisciplinary approach in education; English language - Style - Study and teaching; English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [286]-308) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Style and the renaissance of composition studies / Tom Pace -- Where is style going? Where has it been? / Elizabeth Weiser -- Contextual stylistics : breaking down the binaries in sentence-level pedagogy / Rebecca Moore Howard -- Style redux / Kathryn Flannery -- The uses of literature / Tina Kelleher -- Persuasion, more than argument : moving toward a literary sensitivity in the classroom / Allison Alsup -- An arts-centric composition classroom / Gabriel Gomez -- Playing with echo : strategies for teaching repetition in the writing classroom / Melissa A. Goldthwaite -- The "Weird Al" style method : playful invention as serious pedagogy / Keith Rhodes -- When their voice is their problem : using imitation to teach the classroom dialect / J. Scott Farrin -- Style : the new grammar in composition studies? / Nicole Amare -- Balancing thought and expression : a short course in style / ; Lisa Baird -- Rethinking stylistic analysis in the writing class / William J. Carpenter -- Re-placing the sentence : approaching style through genre / Peter Clements -- Tutoring taboo : a reconsideration of style in the writing center / Jesse Kavadlo -- Rhetor-fitting : defining ethics through style / Dion C. Cautrell -- Style as a system : toward a cybernetic model of composition style / Drew Loewe -- Teaching the tropics of inquiry in the composition classroom / M. Todd Harper -- Writing with the ear / T.R. Johnson.
• Sommario/riassunto: For about two decades, say Johnson and Pace, the discussion of how to address prose style in teaching college writing has been stuck, with style standing in as a proxy for other stakes in the theory wars. The traditional argument is evidently still quite persuasive to some-that teaching style is mostly a matter of teaching generic conventions through repetition and practice. Such a position usually presumes the traditional view of composition as essentially a service course, one without content of its own. On the other side, the shortcomings of this argument have been much discu