Sentimental attachments
Subtitle: essays, creative nonfiction, and other experiments in composition
By: Janet Carey Eldred.
Publisher: Boynton/Cook Publishers; Heinemann
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Portsmouth, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
Subjects: Eldred, Janet Carey; English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching; Reportage literature -- Authorship -- Study and teaching (Higher); Prose literature -- Authorship -- Study and teaching (Higher); Essay -- Authorship -- Study and teaching (Higher); English teachers -- United States -- Biography; Report writing -- Study and teaching (Higher); Creative writing (Higher education)
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Sentimental Attachments opens and closes with important and passionate arguments about why teachers of composition must also be writers of what Eldred calls "lived experience." At its center, however, the book offers a series of lyrical, evocative, exploratory essays that address a range of essential and complex questions. Like others who defy the conventional view that we must hold the personal separate from the political - or the professional - Janet Carey Eldred believes that teachers of writing must compose themselves as they help others to compose."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-114).