Conversations about Writing, notes
Eight "conversations": note similar shape and contents for each.
Below: some points in their discussions of writing that struck me as useful. Browse through the book; make your own collection of points.
1. Letter to students
conversation about writing involves you, but hasn't been shared with you, 1
you are the only expert on your writing, 2
4-5. Freewriting -- Inkshedding: shared writing
7. Inkshed prompts
8. New Practices (Index: 453)
34-6. Using a dictionary, e.g., OED
64. Inkshed after reading
71. Write letter of introduction
77-80. Rules of writing practice, Goldberg
88-9. The Watcher at the Gates, Godwin
112-3. Writing to learn
115. Getting started
135-6. Inkshedding in class; being heard
147. Guidelines for using journals
156. Research basis for collaborative writing
177. One's theory of knowledge; "banking" metaphor
187. Academic writing; voices of others, etc.
202. Academic student writing as testing
223. Personal experience: a place for it; Brown on public/private
258. Grammar as style debate
284. Discard old rules for composition
287. Essays that pull you along
324-5. Citation styles
333-4. Students giving feedback; guidelines
"pointing": what's good, 336-7.
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