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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 474 209 CS 511 853 AUTHOR Villanueva, Victor, Ed. TITLE Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader. Second Edition, Revised and Updated. INSTITUTION National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL. ISBN ISBN-0-8141-0976-4 PUB DATE 2003-00-00 NOTE 873p.; For the first edition (1997), see ED 402 614. AVAILABLE FROM National Council of Teachers of English, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096 (Stock no. 09764-1659: $31.95 members, $42.95 nonmembers). Tel: 800-369-6283 (Toll Free); Web site: http://www.ncte.org. PUB TYPE Books (010) Collected Works General (020) EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF06/PC35 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Audience Awareness; College Students; Higher Education; *Rhetoric; *Theory Practice Relationship; *Writing (Composition); *Writing Instruction; *Writing Processes IDENTIFIERS Collaborative Learning; *Composition Theory; Writing Contexts ABSTRACT This revised and updated resource contains a total of 43 essays that serve to initiate graduate students and more experienced teachers into the theories that inform composition studies. Under Section One--The Givens in Our Conversations: The Writing Process--are these essays: "Teach Writing as a Process Not Product" (Donald M. Murray); "Writing as a Mode of Learning" (Janet Emig); "The Composing Processes of Unskilled College Writers" (Sondra Perl); "Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers" (Nancy Sommers); "The Writer's Audience Is Always a Fiction" (Walter J. Ong); "Audience Addressed/Audience Invoked: The Role of Audience in Composition Theory and Pedagogy" (Lisa Ede and Andrea Lunsford); "Post-Process 'Pedagogy': A Philosophical Exercise" (Lee-Ann M. Kastman Breuch). Under Section Two--Talking in Terms of Discourse: What It Is; How It's Taught--are these essays: "Basic Aims of Discourse" (James L. Kinneavy); "An Ontological Basis for a Modern Theory of the Composing Process" (Frank J. D'Angelo); "Spectator Role and the Beginnings of Writing" (James Britton); "A Discourse-Centered Rhetoric of the Paragraph" (Paul C. Rodgers, Jr.); "Frequency and Placement of Topic Sentences in Expository Prose" (Richard Braddock); "Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar" (Patrick Hartwell); "Coherence, Cohesion, and Writing Quality" (Stephen P. Witte and Lester Faigley); "Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical Theories" (James A. Berlin). Under Section Three--Scientific Talk: Developmental Schemes--are these essays: "A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing" (Linda Flower and John R. Hayes); "Cognitive Development and the Basic Writer" (Andrea A. Lunsford); "Diving In: An Introduction to Basic Writing" (Mina P. Shaughnessy); "William Perry and Liberal Education" (Patricia Bizzell); "Is Teaching Still Possible? Writing, Meaning, and Higher Order Reasoning" (Ann E. Berthoff); "Narrowing the Mind and Page: Remedial Writers and Cognitive Reductionism" (Mike Rose); "Cognition, Convention, and Certainty: What We Need to Know about Writing" (Patricia Bizzell). Under Section Four--Talking about Writing in Society--are these essays: "Collaborative Learning and the 'Conversation of Mankind'" (Kenneth A. Bruffee); "Reality, Consensus, and Reform in the Rhetoric of Composition Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. Teaching" (Greg Myers); "Consensus and Difference in Collaborative Learning" (John Trimbur); "'Contact Zones' and English Studies" (Patricia Bizzell); "Professing Multiculturalism: The Politics of Style in the Contact Zone" (Min-Zhan Lu). Under Section Five--Talking about Selves and Schools: On , Voice, Voices, and Other Voices--are these essays: "Democracy, Pedagogy, and the Personal Essay" (Joel Haefner); "Beyond the Personal: Theorizing a Politics of Location in Composition Research" (Gesa E. Kirsch and Joy S. Ritchie); "Language of Exclusion: Writing Instruction at the University" (Mike Rose); "Composing as a Woman" (Elizabeth A. Flynn); "Feminism in Composition: Inclusion, Metonymy, and Disruption" (Joy Ritchie and Kathleen Boardman); "When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own" (Jacqueline Jones Royster); "Inventing the University" (David Bartholomae); "Arts of Complicity: Pragmatism and the Culture of Schooling" (Richard E. Miller); "On the Subjects of Class and Gender in 'The Literacy Letters'" (Linda Brodkey); "Diversity, Ideology, and Teaching Writing" (Maxine Hairston). Under Section Six--Continuing the Conversation- are these essays: "Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writing Class" (James Berlin); "Cognition, Context, and Theory Building" (Linda Flower); "Composition Studies and ESL Writing: A Disciplinary Division of Labor" (Paul Kei Matsuda); "Distant Voices: Teaching and Writing in a Culture of Technology" (Chris M. Anson); "The Public Intellectual, Service Learning, and Activist Research" (Ellen Cushman); and "On the Rhetoric and Precedents of Racism" (Victor Villanueva). Contains a 77-item resource list.(NKA) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. 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Hock, Chair, ex officio, Kent Williamson, ex officio, Kurt Austin, ex officio CROSS-TALKIN COMP THEORY A Reader Second Edition Revised and Updated Edited by Victor Villanueva Washington State University National Council of Teachers of English 11 1 1 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, Illinois61801-1096 Staff Editor: Tom Tiller Interior and Cover Design: Precision Graphics NCTE Stock Number: 09764-3050 ©2003 by the National Council of Teachers of English. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the copyright holder. Printed in the United States of America. It is the policy of NCTE in its journals and other publications to provide a forum for the open discussion of ideas concerning the content and the teaching of English and the language arts. Publicity accorded to any particular point of view does not imply endorsement by the Executive Committee, the Board of Directors, or the membership at large, except in announcements of policy, where such endorsement is clearly specified. Although every attempt is made to ensure accuracy at the time of publication, NCTE cannot guarantee that all published addresses for electronic mail or Web sites are current. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cross-talk in comp theory : a reader / edited by Victor Villanueva. - 2nd ed., rev. and updated. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8141-0976-4 1. English languageComposition and exercisesStudy and teaching. 2. English languageRhetoricStudy and teaching. I. Villanueva, Victor, 1948- PE1404.C755 2003 808'.042'071dc21 2002156573 Table of Contents Acknowledgments ix Preface to the Second Edition xi Preface to the First Edition xiii SECTION ONE The Givens in Our Conversations: The Writing Process 1 Teach Writing as a Process Not Product 3 Donald M. Murray Writing as a Mode of Learning 7 Janet Emig The Composing Processes of Unskilled College Writers 17 Sondra Perl Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers 43 Nancy Sommers The Writer's Audience Is Always a Fiction 55 Walter J. Ong, S.J. Audience Addressed/Audience Invoked: The Role of Audience in Composition Theory and Pedagogy 77 Lisa Ede and Andrea Luns ford Post-Process "Pedagogy": A Philosophical Exercise 97 Lee-Ann M. Kastman Breuch Cross-Talk in Comp Theory SECTION Two Talking in Terms of Discourse: What It Is; How It's Taught 127 The Basic Aims of Discourse 129 James L. Kinneavy An Ontological Basis for a Modern Theory of the Composing Process 141 Frank J. D'Angelo Spectator Role and the Beginnings of Writing 151 James Britton A Discourse-Centered Rhetoric of the Paragraph 175 Paul C. Rodgers, Jr. The Frequency and Placement of Topic Sentences in Expository Prose 189 Richard Braddock Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar 205 Patrick Hartwell Coherence, Cohesion, and Writing Quality 235 Stephen P. Witte and Lester Faigley Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical Theories 255 James A. Berlin SECTION THREE Scientific Talk: Developmental Schemes 271 A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing 273 Linda Flower and John R. Hayes Cognitive Development and the Basic Writer 299 Andrea A. Lunsford Diving In: An Introduction to Basic Writing 311 Mina P. Shaughnessy William Perry and Liberal Education 319 Patricia Bizzell vi Table of Contents Is Teaching Still Possible? Writing, Meaning, and Higher Order Reasoning 329 Ann E. Berthoff Narrowing the Mind and Page: Remedial Writers and Cognitive Reductionism 345 Mike Rose Cognition, Convention, and Certainty: What We Need to Know about Writing 387 Patricia Bizzell SECTION