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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825710203321

Autore

Luce-Kapler Rebecca

Titolo

Writing with, through, and beyond the text [[electronic resource] ] : an ecology of language / / Rebecca Luce-Kapler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004

ISBN

1-135-62309-0

1-282-32128-5

9786612321283

1-4106-1066-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Disciplina

808/.042/071

Soggetti

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching

English language - Composition and exercises - Study and teaching

Interdisciplinary approach in education

Report writing - Study and teaching

Ecology - Study and teaching

Nature study

Human ecology

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. 171-178) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. The Kitchen of my Imagination; Chapter 2. A Coherence of Being; Chapter 3. The Language Connection; Chapter 4. The Subjunctive Cottage; Chapter 5. In the Company of Writers; Chapter 6. Writing Otherwise; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Writing With, Through, and Beyond the Text: An Ecology of Language elaborates an understanding of writing, its influences on our interpretations of experience and identity, and its potential for enabling individuals to learn about and connect to the world beyond themselves. Rather than considering writing a process, the author describes it as a system, an ecology that engages the individual in a variety of socially constituted and interacting systems. The book examines the pedagogical and curricular implications of this approach to writing,



considering what it means to write and teach w