Part I: Invitations to Alternate Styles

Alternate Styles for Who, What, and Why? Some Introductions to Elements of Alternate Style: Essays on Writing and Revision (Including an E-Mail Interview with Winston Weathers

1. "Would You Like Fries with That?": Ordering Up Some Writing: Fast Food for Thought

Darrell Fike, Bainbridge College

Devan Cook, Lindsey Wilson College

2. Stretch a Little and Get Limber: Warming up to (and With) Grammar B

Elsie Rogers, Thomas College

3. Fractured Narratives: Explorations in Style

Ronald A. DePeter, Florida State University

4. Thirteen Ways of Looking at an Egg: An Assignment in Generation and Revision

Alys Culhane, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee

5. The Case for Double-Voiced Discourse

Lad Tobin, Boston College

6. Why Writers Relish Research: Alternative Writing Projects

Amy Cashulette Flagg, Florida State University

Part II: Invitations to Risk-Taking, Play, and Radical Revision

7. It's Not Just Mumbo Jumbo: Taking Risks with Academic Writing

Elizabeth Rankin, University of North Dakota

8. Grammar J, As in Jazzing Around: The Roles "Play" Plays in Style

Hans Ostrom, University of Puget Sound

9. Distorting the Mirror: Radical Revision and Writers' Shifting Perspectives

Kim Haimes Korn, Southern Polytechnic State University

10. Claiming Language: Breaking Taboos in the Writing Classroom

Nancy Reichert, Montgomery College

11. "You Want Us to Do WHAT?": How to Get the Most Out of Unexpected Writing Assignments

Ruth Mirtz, Florida State University

Part III: Issues in Writing in Alternate Styles

12. Reading, Stealing, and Writing Like a Writer

Wendy Bishop, Florida State University

13. Talk Is Writing: Style in Computer-Mediated Discourse

Carrie Leverenz, Florida State University

14. Putting Correctness in Its Place: Justifications for Teaching and Learning Alternate Grammars

Thomas O' Donnell, Loyola University

15. Sympathy for the Devil: Editing Alternte Style

Michael Spooner, Utah State University

Appendix: Teaching and Learning Ideas

1. Final Thoughts on "Would You Like Fries with That?"

Darrel Fike

Devan Cook

2. On Teching Toward "Risk"

Ronald A. DePeter

3. The Egg Assignment: Reading, Exercises, and a Research Component

Alys Culhane

4. Three Questions Concerning Alternative Research

Amy Cashulette Flagg

5. Doing Invention for and Writing the Taboo-Breaking Paper

Nancy Reichert

6. Two Instances of the Radical Revision Assignment

Kim Haimes Korn

Wendy Bishop

7. Responding to, Evaluating, and Grading Alternate Style

Wendy Bishop

8. Teaching Alternate Style in First-Year Writing: What Happens When We Go Out on a Limb

Devan Cook

9. Teaching Alternate Style in Advanced Composition: Going Around Other Blocks