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1 online resource (x, 269 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-259) and index. |
| Contents |
Finding family, finding a voice : a writing teacher teaches writing teachers -- Teaching my class -- Freshman composition as a middle class enterprise -- Textual terror, textual power : teaching literature through writing literature -- American autobiography and the politics of genre -- Teaching college English as a woman -- Creative nonfiction, is there any other kind? -- Reading, writing, teaching essays as jazz -- Why don't we write what we teach? and publish it? -- Subverting the academic masterplot -- Coming of age in the field that had no name -- Anxious writers in context -- I write for myself and strangers : private diaries as public documents -- Making essay connections : editing readers for first-year writers -- The importance of external reviews in composition studies -- Want a writing director -- Why I (used to) hate to give grades -- Initiation rites, initiation rights / with Thomas Recchio -- Making difference : writing program administration as a creative process -- Bloom's laws. |
| Summary |
Bloom gathers twenty of her most recent essays (some previously unpublished) on critical issues in teaching writing. She addresses matters of philosophy and pedagogy, class and marginality and gender, and textual terror transformed to textual power. Yet the body of her work and this representative collection of it remains centered, coherent, and personal. This work focuses on the creative dynamics that arise from the interrelation of writing, teaching writing, and ways of reading-and the scholarship and administrative issues engendered by it. To regard composition studies as a creative art is t. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
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English language -- Composition and exercises.
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Creative writing -- Study and teaching.
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English language.
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Language and languages.
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Literature.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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Creative writing -- Study and teaching. (OCoLC)fst00882503
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English language -- Composition and exercises.
(OCoLC)fst00911010
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
(OCoLC)fst00911595
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bloom, Lynn Z., 1934- Composition studies as a creative art. Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©1998 0874212464 (DLC) 98008968 (OCoLC)38550099 |
| ISBN |
9780874213638 (electronic bk.) |
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0874213630 (electronic bk.) |
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0585028419 (electronic bk.) |
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9780585028415 (electronic bk.) |
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0874212464 (pbk.) |
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9780874212464 (pbk.) |
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