Genre and Writing: Issues, Arguments, Alternatives

TitleGenre and Writing: Issues, Arguments, Alternatives
Publication TypeMiscellaneous
Year of Publication1997
AuthorsBishop, Wendy, and Hans Ostrom
PublisherBoynton/Cook Heinemann
Place PublishedPortsmouth, NH
Keywordsclassroom, genre
Abstract

ntroduction / Wendy Bishop and Hans Ostrom -- Pt. I. Setting the Scene: Genre and Composition. 1. Preaching What We
Practice as Professionals in Writing / Wendy Bishop --
Pt. II. Understanding and (Re)Defining Genre. 2. The Life of Genre,
the Life in the Classroom / Charles Bazerman. 3. The Subject of
Genre / Thomas P. Helscher. 4. The Yin and Yang of Genres /
Irvin Peckham. 5. Genre as Language Standard / Amy J. Devitt.
6. Boundary Rhetoric and Disciplinary Genres: Redrawing the
Maps in Interdisciplinary Writing / Debra Journet. Response to
Bazerman, Helscher, Peckham, Devitt, and Journet / Carrie
Shively Leverenz --
Pt. III. The Intersection of Politics and Genre: Race and Class
Inside and Outside of Classrooms. 7. White Purposes / William
Lyne. 8. Deep-Rooted Cane: Consanguinity, Writing, and Genre
/ Monifa A. Love and Evans D. Hopkins --
Pt. IV. Telling Genres:
Narratives of Literary History, Rhetoric, and Research. 9.
Countee Cullen: How Teaching Rewrites the Genre of "Writer" /
Hans Ostrom. 10. The (Re)making of Genres: The Heian
Example / Lynn K. Miyake. 11. Resisting Consolation: Early
American Women Poets and the Elegiac Tradition / Allison
Giffen. 12. Genre as Relation: On Writing and Reading as Ethical
Interaction / Gregory Clark.
13. Narratives of the Novice: Genres of Naturalistic Research as
"Storied Inquiry" / Jane Detweiler. Response to Jane Detweiler /
Carol Severino --
Pt. V. The Intersection of Politics Within a
Genre: Autobiography, Feminism, and Teaching. 14. American
Autobiography and the Politics of Genre / Lynn Z. Bloom. 15.
Autobiography and Feminist Writing Pedagogy / Wendy S.
Hesford. Response to Wendy Hesford / Eileen Schell --
Pt. VI. Genre on Academic Sites: Students, Teachers, and
Technologies. 16. Situating "Genre" and Situated Genres:
Understanding Student Writing from a Genre Perspective / Aviva
Freedman.
17. The Territorial Demands of Form and Process: The Case for
Student Writing as a Genre / Ruth M. Mirtz. 18. Genre,
Antigenre, and Reinventing the Forms of Conceptualization /
Brad Peters. 19. Genre in Writing Workshops: Identity
Negotiation and Student-Centered Writing / Robert Brooke and
Dale Jacobs. 20. Postings on a Genre of Email / Myka-Michael
Spooner and Kathleen Yancey --
Pt. VII. The Intersection of
Politics and Genre: Shares and Futures for Graduate Education.
21. The Role of Writing in English Graduate Education and the
"Nexus of Discourses" / Stephen M. North, Lori Anderson and
Barbara Chepaitis [et al.]. 22. Alternative Genres for Graduate
Student Writing / JoAnn Campbell.