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Autore |
Bloom Lynn Z. <1934-> |
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Titolo |
Composition studies as a creative art / / Lynn Z. Bloom |
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Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 1998 |
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©1998 |
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9780874213638 |
0874213630 |
9780585028415 |
0585028419 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 269 pages) : illustrations |
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Soggetti |
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Creative writing - Study and teaching |
English language - Composition and exercises |
English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-259) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Finding family, finding a voice : a writing teacher teaches writing teachers -- Teaching my class -- Freshman composition as a middle class enterprise -- Textual terror, textual power : teaching literature through writing literature -- American autobiography and the politics of genre -- Teaching college English as a woman -- Creative nonfiction, is there any other kind? -- Reading, writing, teaching essays as jazz -- Why don't we write what we teach? and publish it? -- Subverting the academic masterplot -- Coming of age in the field that had no name -- Anxious writers in context -- I write for myself and strangers : private diaries as public documents -- Making essay connections : editing readers for first-year writers -- The importance of external reviews in composition studies -- Want a writing director -- Why I (used to) hate to give grades -- Initiation rites, initiation rights / with Thomas Recchio -- Making difference : writing program administration as a creative process -- Bloom's laws. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Bloom gathers twenty of her most recent essays (some previously |
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unpublished) on critical issues in teaching writing. She addresses matters of philosophy and pedagogy, class and marginality and gender, and textual terror transformed to textual power. Yet the body of her work and this representative collection of it remains centered, coherent, and personal.This work focuses on the creative dynamics that arise from the interrelation of writing, teaching writing, and ways of reading-and the scholarship and administrative issues engendered by it. To regard composition studies as a creative art is t |
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