Self-development and college writing
By: Nick Tingle.
Series: Studies in writing & rhetoric
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching; Academic writing -- Study and teaching; Self-culture
Description: "Drawing on psychoanalytic theory and twenty years of experience as a teacher, Tingle outlines the importance of moving beyond usual ways of thinking, abandoning the common sense of everyday reality, and coming to understand beliefs as beliefs and not absolutes. These developmental moves must be accompanied, Tingle says, by a new attitude towards language - not as something that points to things, but as a series of concepts that arrange the very things one points to. And this development is necessary not just in order to perform well in the writing class, but also to fully participate in and reap the academic rewards of structured, university life."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-160) and index.