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Convergences: Transactions in Reading and Writing. INSTITUTION National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana DOCUMENT RESUME ED 265 568 CS 209 550 AUTHOR Petersen, Bruce T., Ed. TITLE Convergences: Transactions in Reading and Writing. INSTITUTION National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, REPORT NO ISBN-0-8141-0856-3 PUB DATE 86 NOTE 274p. AVAILABLE FROMNational Council of Teachers of English, 1111 Kenyon Rd., Urbana, IL 61801 (Stock No. 08563, $12.00 member, $15.50 nonmember). PUB TYPE Collected Works - General (020) -- Guides - Classroom Use - Guides (For Teachers) (052) EDRS PRICE MV01/PC11 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Cognitive Processes; Higher Education; *Integrated Activities; Literature Appreciation; Nonfiction; *Reading Processes; *Reading Strategies; *Feeding Writing Relationship; Revision (Written Composition); Speech Communication; Teaching Methods; *Writing Instruction; *Writing Processes IDENTIFIERS *Author Text Relationship ABSTRACT The relationship between reading and writing is explored in this book. Titles of the book's essays and their authors are as follows: (1) "What Is the Value of Connecting Reading and Writing?" by Robert J. Tierney and Margie Leys; (2) "Reflective Thought: The Connection between Reading and Writing" by Juno Cannell Birnbaum; (3) "Reading as a Writing Strategy: Wt. Case Studies" by Cynthia L. Selfe; (4) "The Writing/Reading Relationship: Becoming One's Own Best Reader" by Richard Beach and JoAnne Liebman-Kleine; (5) "Writing Plans as Strategies for Reading, Writing, and Revising" by Barbey Doughtery; (6) "Cognitive Stereoscopy and the Study of Language and Literature" by David Bleich; (7) "Social Foundations of Reading and Writing" by Deborah Brandt; (8) "Speech Acts and the Reader-Writer Transaction" by Dorothy Augustine and W. Ross Winterowd; (9) "Writing Based on Reading" by Marilyn S. Sternglass; (10) "How Do Users Read Computer Manuals? Some Protocol Contributions to Writer's Knowledge" by Patricia Sullivan and Linda Flower; (11) "Using Nonfiction Literature in the Composition Classroom" by Maxine Hairston; (12) "An Integrative Approach to Research: Theory and Practice" by Jill N. Burkland and Bruce T. Petersen; (13) "Combined Reading-Writing Instruction Using Technical and Scientific Texts" by Anne Eisenberg; (14) "Integrating the Acts of Reading and Writing about Literature: A Sequence of Assignments Based on James Joyce's 'Counterpr-ts' by Joseph J. Comprone; (15) "The Self and the Other in the Process of Composing: Implications for Integrating the Acts of Reading and Writing" by Katharine Ronald; and (16) "Reading and Writing as Liberal Arts" by Stephen N. Tchudi. A nine-page, annotated bibliography, compiled by Patricia L. Stock and Karen K. *Mason, concludes the volume. (HOD) us. ommanasor Ofasuumou NATIONAL INSTITUTE Of EDUCATION EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) )1(ThAdocument has been reproduced as reamed from the person or °ream:soon adenoma rt. 0 Mmor changes have been mode to Improve reproducoon quaky. Convergences Porte of vow of opinions meted in this docu- ment do not wefts* represent offical NIE position or poky. Transactions in Reading and Writing '0CO in Le1 4:0 CV CZ U.! Edited by Bruce T. Petersen With an introduction by Marilyn S. Sternglass "PFRMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS (4) MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY NCTE National Council of Teachers of English .R4 1111 Kenyon Road, Urbana, Illinois 61801 cc TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES V) 2 INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)." U Tofill, Ian, and Quentin. NCTE Editorial Board: Candy Carter, Julir: M. Jensen, Delores Lipscomb, John S. Mayher, Elisabeth McPherson, John C. Mtxwtll, ex officio, Paul O'Dea, ex officio Staff Editor. tee Erwin Book Design: Tom Kovacs for TGK Design NCTE Stock Number 08563 @ 1986 by the National Council of Teachers of English. All rights reserved. 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. Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Convergences: transactions in reading and writing. Bibliography. p L English languageRhetoricStudy and teaching Addresses, essays, lectures 2. English language Composition and exercisesStudy and teachingAddresses, essays, lectures. 3. ReadingAddresses, essays, lectures. 4. language artsAddresses, essays, lectures 1. Petersen, Bruce T l'E1404.C634 1986 808'.042'07 86-2368 ISBN 0-8141-0856-3 Contents Preface vii Introduction 1 Marilyn S. Sternglass I Becoming Readers and Writers What Is the Value of Connecting Reading and Writing? 15 Robert J. Tiemey and Margie Leys Reflective Thought: The Connection between Reading and Writing 30 June Cannel! Bimbaum Reading as a Writing Strategy: Two Case Studies 46 Cynthia L Selfe The Writing/Reading Relationship: Becoming One's Own Best Reader 64 Richard Beach and JoAnne Liebman-Kleine Writing Plans as Strategies for Reading, Writing, and Revising 82 Barbey Dougherty II Reading and Writing as Social Activities Cognitive Stereoscopy and the Study of Language and Literature 99 David Bleich Social Foundations of Reading and Writing 115 Deborah Brandt Speech Acts and the Reader-Writer Transaction 127 Dorothy Augustine and W. Ross Winterowd v vi Contents III Using the Writing of Others Writing Based on Reading 151 Marilyn S. Stemglass How Do Users Read Computer Manuals? Some Protocol Contributions to Writers' Knowledge 163 Patricia Sullivan and Linda Flower Using Nonfiction Literature in the Composition Classroom 179 Maxine Hairston An Integrative Approach to Research: Theory and Practice 189 Jill N. Burk land and Bruce T. Petersen Combined ReadingWriting Instruction Using Technical and Scientific Texts 204 Anne Eisenberg IV Using Literature and Teaching Literacy Integrating the Acts of Reading and Writing about Literature: A Sequence of Assignments Based on James Joyce's "Counterparts" 215 Joseph J. Comprone The Self and the Other in the Process of Composing: Implications for Integrating the Acts of Reading and Writing 231 Katharine Ronald Reading and Writing as Liberal Arts 246 Stephen N. Tchudi Select Bibliography 260 Patricia L Stock and Karen K. Wixson Contributors 269 5 *.riffiraCiake Preface When Bruce Petersen died from livercancer suddenly at the age of thirty-seven, he was nearing completion of thismanuscript. Bereft as we still are, we are deeply pleased to have been ableto finish what little work remained and tosee this project through to publication. The title Bruce chose for his book,Convergences, aptly characterizes his short but promising scholarlycareer. He believed in the liberating power of education, and for him language was the primary alchemical force. As such, it stood at the center of his teachingand scholarship, and many areas 3f intellectual inquiry convergedupon it, including semiotics, reader-response criticism, reading andrhetorical theory, psycholinguistics, politics, and literature, especiallythe novels of Charles Dickens. This talent for making connections affectedmany of us with whom Bruce worked. He was an excellent reader ofcolleagues' papers, able to provide a global perspective that brought all loose endstogether. He was tactful and savvy about gathering togethergroups of scholars for panels, presentations, and books. Andrunning through his efforts at integration, there %ere always integrity andambition, in the very best sense of the termambition to know, ambition to contributemeaning- fully to the professional dialectic, andambition to teach and respect whole students, to lead them beyondconcerns about GPA to ennobling habits of mind. As a friend, Bruce encouragedconvergence as well. Here in the northern reaches of Michigan's rugged andisolated upper peninsula, where two-hundred-inch yearly snowfallsare the norm rather than the exception, where sense of community is theonly antidote to severe bouts of cabin fever, Bruce helped thingsto make sense for his friends. His home and family were asource of solidarity, his woodstove a place around which to meet for drinks andconversation and laughter when the snow and wind had frayedour patience and the temperature hovered at zero. We remember Bruce on the racquetballcourt giggling (and that is the right word) over his impossible kill shots.We remember him bent over his piano, those grand appassionato stretches of Beethovenor vii viii Preface rousing medleys of Scott Joplin. We remember his incomparable choc- olate mousse, his homemade pasta and Chinese food. We remember the lessons he taught us about family, about loving, about loyalty and honesty. We remember his outspoken defenses of principles, both professional and personal. We remember, and now we walk just a bit more softly for fear that we will say or do something to afriend that sudden, capricious loss might prevent us from undoing. We speak here of loss and memories out of our own need to embody in words the person behind this collection of essays. We have all lost a colleague and a friend. But the work remains, and we are happy and honored to make it available to the profession, both for the person implicit in these pages and for the vision they sustain. Randy Freisinger Cynthia Se lfe Billie Wahlstrom Michigan Technological University 7 _ soLlIam.y. Introduction It has become acceptable, even fashionable, to speak of the paradigm shifts that have occurred in reading (from
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