"Writer's Choice: Grammar and Composition" Grade 6 is an integrated language arts program that keeps pace with the current trends in the teaching of writing and related communication skills. Features in the Student Editions build on a solid foundation of instruction including easy-to-understand explanations, clear-cut definitions, real-world examples, and skill-based assessment. The visuals and graphics throughout the textbook engage students' attention and illustrate key concepts and processes.
Composition teachers throughout the English-speaking world have been pushing this book on their students since it was first published in 1957. Co-author White later revised it, and it remains the most compact and lucid handbook we have for matters of basic principles of composition, grammar, word usage and misusage, and writing style.
Throughout her book, Cindy Johanek portrays a near-crisis situation in the field of rhetoric and composition: she laments the "prominent place" of anecdotal evidence that belies "our rejection of the quantitative," and warns us that the "near-abandonment of research that seeks and analyzes numerical data" will divide us "further into the more private worlds of personal stories" (11). She argues for an inclusive paradigm in composition and rhetoric studies, one that focuses on the type of research the field needs versus the kind we like. And she assumes that what we like is bad for the field. Many readers will find the arguments over paradigms, current-traditional rhetoric, and quantitative/qualitative debates familiar, but Johanek takes a uniquely strident approach in championing the neglected realms of empirical research.
Focused on scholarship in rhetoric and composition over the past quarter-century, Concepts in Composition: Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing
is designed to foster reflection on how theory impacts practice,
enabling prospective teachers to develop their own comprehensive and
coherent conception of what writing is or should be and to consider how
people learn to write. This approach allows readers to assume the dual
role of both teacher and student as they enter the conversation of the
discipline and become familiar with some of the critical issues.
Each chapter addresses a particular theoretical concept relevant to
classroom teaching and includes activities to help readers establish
the connection between theoretical concepts and classroom lessons. A
major premise is that only when prospective writing teachers understand
this relationship will they be able to teach effectively. The chapters,
designed to facilitate this understanding, include:
*an
overview of a significant concept in composition that has generated
scholarly attention, and in some instances, critical controversy over
the past 25 years;
*writing assignments and discussion prompts to foster further exploration of the concept;
*thought-provoking articles;
*bibliographies for further research; and
*suggestions for classroom activities to apply the concept in a pedagogical context.
The text is enriched by seven chapters authored by invited scholars
with expertise in particular concepts of composition. Two
appendixes--"Developing Effective Writing Assignments" and "Developing
a Syllabus" enhance the pedagogical usefulness of the text.
Cliffs AP English Language and Composition by Barbara V. Swovelin
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