Writers without borders
Subtitle: writing and teaching writing in troubled times
By: Lynn Z. Bloom.
Series: Lauer series in rhetoric and composition
Publisher: Parlor Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: West Lafayette, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781602350595; 9781602350601; 9781602350618
Subjects: English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching; Essay -- Authorship -- Study and teaching; Report writing -- Study and teaching
Description: "In Writers Without Borders: Writing and Teaching Writing in Troubled Times, Lynn Z. Bloom presents groundbreaking research on the nature of essays and on the political, philosophical, ethical, and pragmatic considerations that influence how we read, write, and teach them in times troubled by terrorism, transgressive students, and uses and abuses of the Internet. Writers Without Borders reinforces Bloom's reputation for presenting innovative and sophisticated research with a writer's art and a teacher's heart. Each of the eleven essays addresses in its own way the essay itself as one way to live and learn with others."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Academic essays and the vertical pronoun; title: The essay canon; title: The essayist in-and behind-the essay: vested writers, invested readers; title: Compression-when less says more; title: Writing textbooks in/for times of trauma; title: The great process paradigm and its legacy for the twenty-first century; title: The ineluctable elitism of essays and why they prevail in first-year composition courses; title: Good enough writing; title: The good, the bad, and the ugly: ethical principles for dealing with students and student writing in teachers' publications-and in the abyss beyond; title: Insider writing: plagiarism-proof assignments; title: Negotiating the grading contract: no more lobbying, bullying or crying.