Questioning authority : stories told in school /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Adler-Kassner, Linda, Harrington, Susanmarie
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2001]
Subjects:	English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching. English language > Composition and exercises. Report writing > Study and teaching. Storytelling > Study and teaching.

Table of Contents:

Stories, authority, teaching : making a difference in the composition classroom / Susanmarie Harrington and Linda Adler-Kassner
Section I. Personal authority : questioning the relationship between individual and community. Stories, style, and the exploitation of experience / Douglas D. Hesse
Telling stories : the subject is never just me / Terry Myers Zawacki
Trailing the essay with Professor Fog / Brad Peters
Using stories to probe assumptions, question authority, and stabilize meaning / Emily Golson
Section 2. Formal authority : questioning assumptions about the essay. La huesera : articulating the skeletons of stories and essays / Laura Brady
Visualizing the academic essay / Phil Anderson and Anne Aronson
Expository essay form and the future of newer electronic forms as academic expression / Thomas Reynolds
Section 3. Theoretical authority : questioning assumptions about the frameworks we use. Once upon a theory : cracks in the authoritative chronicles of the contact zone / Laura Gray-Rosendale
Want to tell a true story about first-year college writing programs? / Dawn Skorczewski
Essaying theory : testing authority in classroom practice / Ruth M. Mirtz
Essaying as action : stories of writing in context / Ed Nagelhout.