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Tables of Contents for The Subject Is Writing
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the Second Edition
ix
Acknowledgments
xiii
Part I: Writing to Invent and Imagine
1
42
Writing as a Tool for Learning and Discovery
3
10
Thia Wolf
Changing as a Writer
13
7
Audrey Brown
Journeys in Journaling
20
10
Chris M. Anson
Richard Beach
Time, Tools, and Talismans
30
13
Susan Wyche
Part II: Invitations to Write
43
46
From Oral Narratives to Written Essays
45
10
Ormond Loomis
How to Get the Writing Done
55
7
Donald M. Murray
Access: Writing in the Midst of Many Cultures
62
11
Hans Ostrom
A Lesson in Revision
73
16
Toby Fulwiler
Part III: To the Writer---Writing Classrooms and Writing Processes
89
34
That Isn't What We Did in High School: Big Changes in the Teaching of Writing
91
8
Donald A. McAndrew
Does Coming to College Mean Becoming Someone New?
99
6
Kevin Davis
By the Light of the Terminal Screen: Discovering Digital Discourse
105
12
Pat Hendricks
How Writers and Readers Construct Texts
117
6
Jeanette Harris
Part IV: Behind the Scenes: How Writers and Teachers Work (Together)
123
44
The Cupped Hand and the Open Palm
125
11
Hephzibah Roskelly
Responding---Really Responding---to Other Students' Writing
136
11
Richard Straub
What Is a Grade?
147
9
Pat Belanoff
Resisting Writing/Resisting Writing Teachers
156
11
Beth Daniell
Art Young
Part V: Writing to Figure out the World and to Figure in the World
167
40
Style: The Hidden Agenda in Composition Classes or One Reader's Confession
169
15
Kate Ronald
The Value(s) of Style, the Style of Value(s)
184
8
Lizanne Minerva
Melanie A. Rawls
When All Writing Is Creative and Student Writing Is Literature
192
11
Wendy Bishop
I Am Not a Writer, I Am a Good Writer
203
4
Joe Quatrone
Part VI: Hint Sheets for Students and Teachers
207
26
Inventing Inventions
209
2
Prompts for Writing About Language Communities
Reading Assignment Sheets
211
2
Getting Your Journal Going
213
2
A Sampler of Creative Ways to Respond to a Literary Text
215
2
Intentionally
216
1
Randomly
216
1
Partner Inventory for Working Together
217
1
A Discussion of Drafting Levels
218
2
Revising out---Expanding and Amplifying a Draft (Before Revising in)
220
2
Some Style Play
222
4
In Praise of Punctuation
222
1
Sentence (Non)Sense
222
1
About That Title
223
3
Responding to Peer Writing Before A Full-class Workshop
226
2
The Executive Summary for Sorting Out Full-class Responses
228
1
Radical Revision
229
2
The Processes of Writing Portfolios
231
2
Handout for Submitting Writing Portfolios
231
2
Handout for a Portfolio Checklist
233