David Bartholomae has been a prominent figure in the field of composition and rhetoric for almost five decades. This is an end-of-career book, a collection of late essays that reflect on the teaching of reading and writing, on the challenges and value of students' work, and on the place of English in the university curriculum. The chapters are unified by a thread that connects some of the books and ideas, people and places, students and courses that shaped and sustained his work as a scholar and teacher over time. Several chapters present and discuss extended examples of student writing. The essays trace his formation from the early days of "Basic Writing" to his final engagements with study abroad and travel writing, where he had the chance to think again, and in radically different settings, about the fundamental problems of communication across linguistic and cultural divides.
A collection of twenty-one essays by David Bartholomae, Writing on the Margins includes selections that have helped shape the discipline of composition studies. With a wide-ranging introduction and three retrospective postscripts to set the essays in context, it serves as a valuable reference and as a powerful introduction to crucial issues in the field.
A collection of twenty-one essays by David Bartholomae, Writing on the Margins includes selections that have helped shape the discipline of composition studies. With a wide-ranging introduction and three retrospective postscripts to set the essays in context, it serves as a valuable reference and as a powerful introduction to crucial issues in the field. This book has been awarded the MLA's Mina P. Shaugnessy Award, recognizing an outstanding research publication on the teaching of English.
Much admired, widely adopted, and one-of-a-kind -- Ways of Reading combines lengthy and challenging readings with an innovative and demanding apparatus to engage students in conversations with some of the most powerful voices of our culture.
A briefer, less expensive version of the innovative Ways of Reading this cultural studies reader includes 6 rich, lengthy, and demanding readings (by Clifford Geetz, Harriet Brent Jacobs, and Joyce Carol Oates, among others) and an Assignment Sequence.
- 26 rich, lengthy, and demanding readings (8 new) are by key figures in current cultural and academic debates, including Michel Foucault, Adrienne Rich, John Berger, Mary Louise Pratt, and Edward Said. Many selections work with visual texts, and this edition includes over 100 paintings and photographs. - 18 unique Assignment Sequences (4 new), connect reading, critical thinking, and writing by asking students to read several selections and write several essays on a single subject. Subjects include autobiography, history and ethnography, and reading culture, among others. The assignments build on each other, allowing students to work with a selection, connect one selection to another, and bring the ideas of one writer to bear on another. This work helps them develop crucial skills that will serve them throughout their college careers and beyond. - Innovative editorial apparatus and teaching aids. The book's apparatus helps students to work on what they read through rereading and writing.The outstanding introduction prepares them for the push and shove of academic work. Lengthy headnotes and three kinds of questions help them to deal with the difficult material. An Instructor's Manual (written by Bartholomae and Petrosky) and a Web site with additional assignments offer resources for teaching the book.
Our culture is becoming increasingly saturated with images, and the study of visual culture is of growing interest in the academy since it offers insights into the way that reality is constructed and represented. Yet it is often a highly theoretical field in which the readings are famously difficult. This distinctive new book adapts the proven methodology of Ways of Reading and combines four of its readings with four new ones to allow students to work productively with the complexities of visual representation. Photographs in the text include film stills, family portraits, snapshots, and classic images by photographers such as Walker Evans, Jacob Riis, and Dorothea Lange. By integrating critical reading, visual analysis, and writing with a unique selection of readings and editorial features, Ways of Reading Words and Images teaches students to see critically and write analytically while engaging with some of the most powerful voices and images of our culture. Students benefit because the challenges of the book are amply rewarded; many writing assignments ask them to perform the same kinds of tasks that the authors of these theoretical pieces perform. It is an approach that particularly complements the interests of teaching assistants and new Ph.D.s, since instructors work with pieces they themselves find intellectually engaging.
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