Ways of reading: An anthology for writers

Politics & Social Sciences

Bartholomae, David

Sociology

Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press

In the late 1970s, instructors at the University of Pittsburgh recognized that students were entering the school unprepared for the rigors of academic life. The university's response was to develop a course offering challenging material -- readings requiring serious attention -- along with a method of reading and rereading that helped students learn to read and think critically and respond in writing. That course proved enormously successful, and its materials and methods were published as Ways of Reading. Often imitated -- but never duplicated -- Ways of Reading has for over twenty years profoundly influenced the teaching of writing. It continues to offer students and instructors a uniquely exciting and challenging approach to first-year composition, integrating reading, writing, and critical thinking with an unparalleled selection of readings and editorial features. Ways of Reading helps students develop the necessary intellectual skills for college-level academic work while engaging them in conversations with key academic and cultural texts. It bridges the gap between contemporary critical theory and composition so that instructors can connect their own scholarly work with their teaching. Adopted and readopted from coast to coast in a wide variety of schools, hundreds of instructors and thousands of students confirm that it works.

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

New. Third Edition 1984 Second Printing.

Resources for teaching Ways of reading: An anthology for writers

A briefer, less expensive version of the innovative Ways of Reading this cultural studies reader includes 6 rich, lengthy, and demanding readings (by Clifford Geetz, Harriet Brent Jacobs, and Joyce Carol Oates, among others) and an Assignment Sequence.

Reading the Lives of Others: A Sequence for Writers

Petrosky, Anthony

Bedford/St.Martin's

Ways of Reading: An Anthology for Writers

Bedford/St.Martins

Writing on the Margins: Essays on Composition And Teaching

A collection of 21 essays by David Bartholomae — one of the composition community’s most prominent members — Writing on the Margins: Essays on Composition and Teaching includes selections that have helped shape the discipline of composition studies. With Bartholomae’s wide-ranging introduction and three retrospective postscripts to set the essays in context, Writing on the Margins serves as a valuable reference — and as a powerful introduction to crucial issues in the field.

Writing on the Margins: Essays on Composition and Teaching

Ways of Reading Words and Images & Portfolio Keeping 2e

Reynolds, Nedra

Rice, Rich

Our culture is becoming increasingly saturated with images, and the study of visual culture is of growing interest in the academy since it offers insights into the way that reality is constructed and represented. Yet it is often a highly theoretical field in which the readings are famously difficult. This distinctive new book adapts the proven methodology of Ways of Reading and combines four of its readings with four new ones to allow students to work productively with the complexities of visual representation. Photographs in the text include film stills, family portraits, snapshots, and classic images by photographers such as Walker Evans, Jacob Riis, and Dorothea Lange. By integrating critical reading, visual analysis, and writing with a unique selection of readings and editorial features, Ways of Reading Words and Images teaches students to see critically and write analytically while engaging with some of the most powerful voices and images of our culture. Students benefit because the challenges of the book are amply rewarded; many writing assignments ask them to perform the same kinds of tasks that the authors of these theoretical pieces perform. It is an approach that particularly complements the interests of teaching assistants and new Ph.D.s, since instructors work with pieces they themselves find intellectually engaging.

Ways of Reading : Words and Images

Petrosky, Anthony R.

bedford

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