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This reference handbook surveys research on the central issue associated with the teaching of unprepared writers. Though basic writing has only been recognized as a distinct area of teaching and research since 1975, the existing bibliographic texts already seem limited due to their age or lack of annotation. This volume provides current and extensive bibliographic essays and will help to define this new field of study for teachers and researchers.
Following an introduction that summarizes the origins and significant texts in basic writing, the book is divided into three sections, Social Science Perspectives, Linguistic Perspectives, and Pedagogical Perspectives. The first section, which contains three essays, views the field through the lens of social, psychological, and political issues. The second section, also containing three essays, examines contributions made from studies of grammar, dialects, and second-language acquisition. The third section, in its four essays, focuses on the design, development, administration, and evaluation of basic writing courses, the use of computers in basic writing classrooms, the role of the writing lab, and the preparation of basic writing teachers. An appendix that reviews current textbooks for basic writing courses is also included, as well as an index. This book will be a valuable resource for teachers of basic writing, in education courses and workshops that train teachers and tutors, and in fields such as linguistics, technical writing, and Teaching English as a Second Language. It will also be an important addition to public and university libraries and many education programs.
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Introduction
Social Science PerspectivesWho are Basic Writers? by Andrea Lunsford and Patricia A. Sullivan
Development Psychology and Basic Writers by Donna Haisty Winchell
Literacy Theory and Basic Writing by Mariolina Salvatori and Glynda Hull
Linguistic PerspectivesModern Grammar and Basic Writers by Ronald F. Lunsford
Dialects and Basic Writers by Michael Montgomery
TESL Research and Basic Writing by Sue Render
Pedalogical PerspectivesBasic Writing Courses and Programs by Michael D. Hood
Computers and Writing Instruction by Stephen A. Bernhardt and Patricia G. Wojahn
Writing Laboratories and Basic Writing by Donna Beth Nelson
Preparing Teachers of Basic Writing by Richard Filloy
Appendix: Selective Bibliography of Basic Writing Textbooks by Mary Sue Ply
Name Index
Subject Index
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MICHAEL G. MORAN is Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia. He is the co-editor of two earlier Greenwood reference volumes:
Research in Composition and Rhetoric (1984) and
Research in Technical Communication (1986), which won the 1986 National Council of Teachers of English Award.
MARTIN J. JACOBI is Assistant Professor of English at Clemson University. He specializes in classical and modern rhetoric and basic and professional writing, and his articles and essays have appeared in a number of journals, including the
Southern Literary Journal and
Contemporary American Playwrights.
