Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing
Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing
Series Editors, Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky
Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing
Series Editors, Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky
Volumes in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing offer multiple perspectives on a wide-range of topics about writing. In each chapter, authors present their unique views, insights, and strategies for writing by addressing the undergraduate reader directly. Drawing on their own experiences, these teachers-as-writers invite students to join in the larger conversation about the craft of writing. Consequently, each essay functions as a standalone text that can easily complement other selected readings in writing or writing-intensive courses across the disciplines at any level.
Writing Spaces
Readings on Writing Volume 2
Edited by Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky
Parlor Press
Anderson, South Carolina
Parlor Press LLC, Anderson, South Carolina, 29621.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Writing spaces : readings on writing. Volume 1 / edited by Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky.
p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-60235-184-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-185-1 (adobe ebook) 1. College readers. 2. English language--Rhetoric. I. Lowe, Charles, 1965- II. Zemliansky, Pavel. PE1417.W735 2010 808'.0427--dc22
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Cover design by Colin Charlton. This book is printed on acid-free paper.
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Contents
Acknowledgmentsvii Ten Ways To Think About Writing: Metaphoric
Musings for College Writing Students 3 E. Shelley Reid
Composition as a Write of Passage 24 Nathalie Singh-Corcoran
Critical Thinking in College Writing: From the Personal to the Academic 37 Gita DasBender
Looking for Trouble: Finding Your Way into a Writing Assignment 52 Catherine Savini
How to Read Like a Writer 71 Mike Bunn
Murder! (Rhetorically Speaking) 87 Janet Boyd
The Complexity of Simplicity: Invention Potentials for Writing Students 102 Colin Charlton
Writing "Eyeball To Eyeball": Building A Successful Collaboration 122 Rebecca Ingalls
On the Other Hand: The Role of Antithetical Writing in First Year Composition Courses 141 Steven D. Krause
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Introduction to Primary Research: Observations, Surveys, and Interviews 153 Dana Lynn Driscoll
Putting Ethnographic Writing in Context 175 Seth Kahn
Walk, Talk, Cook, Eat: A Guide to Using Sources 193 Cynthia R. Haller
Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources 210 Karen Rosenberg
Googlepedia: Turning Information Behaviors into Research Skills 221 Randall McClure
Annoying Ways People Use Sources 242 Kyle D. Stedman
Everything Changes, or Why MLA Isn't (Always) Right 257 Janice R. Walker
Storytelling, Narration, and the "Who I Am" Story 270 Catherine Ramsdell
The Sixth Paragraph: A Re-Vision of the Essay 286 Paul Lynch
Why Blog? Searching for Writing on the Web 302 Alex Reid
A Student's Guide to Collaborative Writing Technologies 320 Matt Barton and Karl Klint
Beyond Black on White: Document Design and Formatting in the Writing Classroom 333 Michael J. Klein and Kristi L. Shackelford
Contributors351
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank a lot of people who contributed to this project. First of all, we are very grateful to all the contributors for their hard work, their willingness to listen, and their ability to work with our reviewers who suggested numerous changes to their drafts. Without the enthusiasm and expertise of our contributors, this project would not exist.
Next, we would like to thank the members of our editorial board who also served as chapter reviewers. No doubt, you have put countless hours into the job of helping the authors make their chapters better. We know that the contributors have really enjoyed the collaborative and supportive review environment which you created.
We also want to acknowledge the immense amount of work of the editorial staff. Matt Barton, Colin Charlton, Craig Hulst, Terra Williams, and Elizabeth Woodworth--you did everything from copyediting chapters to graphic design and visual editing, to editing and proof reading contributors' bios and chapter descriptions. Your contributions have been vital to this second volume of Writing Spaces, and it would not have been possible without you.
Finally, a thanks to our partners at Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse for their continued support of this open textbook series for first year composition.
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