The Subject Is Writing, Fourth Edition

Essays by Teachers and Students

By Wendy Bishop, Florida State University, James Strickland, Slippery Rock University

Like earlier editions of the widely used Subject Is Writing, the Fourth edition continues the tradition of bringing first-year students into contact with provocative ideas and voices—some of them fellow students—that will change how they think about writing. Its fresh, direct approach will appeal to your sense of purpose and professionalism as it engages your students' interests and sensibilities.

Both a classroom reader and a rhetoric for first-year college writing, The Subject Is Writing, Fourth edition has been enhanced with nine new essays that cover a wide variety of topics, including: ...

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ISBN 978-0-86709-586-9 / 0-86709-586-5 / SKU 0586
2006 / 292pp / Paperback
Grade Level: College
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Both a classroom reader and a rhetoric for first-year college writing, The Subject Is Writing, Fourth edition has been enhanced with nine new essays that cover a wide variety of topics, including:

keeping a writer's notebook
taking an expressive approach to academic writing
using narratives in college writing
employing computer strategies for revision
lower order concerns such as spelling
sentence structure and use of the first person in academic writing
making the most of the college writing center.

The practical yet reflective nature of the book remains, with questions at the end of each chapter that invite students to respond to the essayists with essays of their own. An appendix of new and revised hint sheets provides a selection of handouts and writing tips that impart advice about some of the more practical aspects of writing and the writing classroom. In addition, a new, user-friendly Instructor's Manual is available online for adopters of the text.

Engage your students in a new, exciting way. Give them The Subject Is Writing, Fourth edition, and embolden them to write with clarity, grace, power, and passion.

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I. How Do Writers Find Their Subjects?
1. Writing as a Tool for Learning and Discovery, Thia Wolf
2. Composting with a Writer’s Notebook: An Interactive Reading, Jim Mahoney
3. Memories of Wandering Thoughts, Amanda McCorquodale
4. Time, Tools, and Talismans, Susan Wyche
5. Putting the Composure in Composing, or, Why I Love My Game Boy, Annelise R. Schantz
6. Invention Throughout the Writing Process, Amy Hodges

II. Choices Writers Make About Style, Voice, and Genre
7. Don’t Tell Me What to Write:An Expressive Approach to Writing, Joe Antinarella
8. Writing Stories in College, Gian S.Pagnucci
9. Hearing Voices: Yours, Mine, Others, Jay Szczepanski
10. Style: The Hidden Agenda in Composition Classes, or, One Reader’s Confession, Kate Ronald

III. Special Topics: craft and skills Advice
11. Virtually Inspired: Computer Strategies for Revision, Shelley Aley
12. Does Spelling Count? Rebecca Bowers Sipe
13. Developing Sentence Sense, Anne Ruggles Gere
14. Understanding Writing Assignments: Tips and Techniques, Dan Melzer
15. Tips for College Writing Success, Nathan Timm

IV. Writers and other Writers
16. Changing as a Writer, Audrey Erown
17. The Friendly Neighborhood Writing Center—Your Personal Trainer for Writing, Katherine Holahan and Elizabeth Boquet
18. The Cupped Hand and the Open Palm, Hephzibah Roskelly
19. Responding—Really Responding—to Other Students’ Writing, Richard Straub

V. Larger Issues in Writing
20. Writing Up Primary Research Observations: "Can We Use I?" Danette DiMarco
21. What Is a Grade? Pat Belanoff
22. That Isn’t What We Did in High School: Big Changes in the Teaching of Writing, Donald A. McAndrew
23. When All Writing Is Creative and Student Writing Is Literature, Wendy Bishop
24. I Am Not a Writer, I Am a Good Writer, Joe Quatrone
25. Access: Writing in the Midst of Many Cultures, Hans Ostrom

VI. Hint Sheets for Students and Teachers
A. Inventing Inventions
B. Understanding Writing Assignments, Dan Melzer
C. Your Journal
D. A Sampler of Creative Ways to Respond to a Literary Text
E. A Discussion of Drafting Levels
F. Revising Out—Expanding and Amplifying a Draft (Before Revising In)
G. Revision Exercises
H. A Few Words About Verbs
I. Description
J. Responding to Peer Writing Before a Full-Class Workshop
K. Suggestions for Submitting Writing Portfolios