creator: Elbow, Peter
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Inviting the Mother Tongue: Beyond"Mistakes,""Bad English", and"Wrong Language"
description- – This essay grows out of feeling torn between conflicting goals or obligations. I think most teachers of first year college writing courses also feel this conflict, and I experience it acutely as director of a university writing program. On the one hand, I feel an obligation not to force all my students to conform to the language and culture of mainstream English. (See "The Students' Right To Their Own Language" [Committee].) On the other hand, I feel an obligation to give all my students access to the written language of power and prestige.
- – 1999-01-01
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Using the Collage for Collaborative Writing
collectiondate- – 1999-01-01
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"Vernacular Englishes in the Writing Classroom: Probing the Culture of Literacy"
subjectcollectiondate- – 2002-01-01
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The Cultures of Literature and Composition: What Could Each Learn From the Other?
collectiondate- – 2002-05-01
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Write First: Putting Writing before Reading is an Effective Approach to Teaching and Learning
description- – The phrase "reading and writing" reflects the implicit assumption that reading comes first and that writing must follow. First graders can "write" all the words they can say, albeit in their own manner and using invented spelling. Encouraging this kind of writing gives children control over letters and texts, giving them an understanding that they need ultimately for reading. The word learning itself tends to promote reading over writing because we often assume learning refers to input, not output, that it's a matter of putting other people's ideas inside us. Writing is more caught up with meaning making, however, and encourages students to break out of their characteristically passive stance in school and in learning. "Reading tends to imply 'Sit still and pay attention', whereas writing tends to imply 'Get in there and do something.'" It's not the case that putting writing first--output before input--will encourage rampant individualism. Reading and writing are joined, in fact, at the hip. Students will put more care into reading when they have had more of a chance to write.
- – 2004-01-01
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"A Friendly Challenge to Push the Outcomes Statement Further"
collectiondate- – 2005-01-01
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"How to Enhance Learning by Using High-Stakes and Low-Stakes Writing"
collectiondate- – 2005-01-01
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Bringing the Rhetoric of Assent and the Believing Game Together - and Into the Classroom
description- – To Wayne Booth's argument for assent, I assent. I will explore our large agreement, our small difference--and then describe some specific classroom practices that can support our common desire to improve rhetoric, thinking, and teaching.
- – 2005-01-01
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"The Believing Game and How to Make Conflicting Opinions More Fruitful"
collectiondate- – 2006-01-01
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Foreword:"When the Margins are at the Center"
collectiondate- – 2006-01-01
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The Music of Form: Rethinking Organization in Writing.
collectiondate- – 2006-06-01
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Enlisting Speaking and Spoken Language for Writing
collectiondate- – 2007-03-01
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Should We Invite Students to Write in Home Languages? Complicating the Yes/No Debate
collectiondate- – 2007-03-09
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