Re: stylistics

[Margaret Clark <clark@uhdux2.dt.uh.edu>]

I'm searching the dusty shelves of the department closets and if I don't 
find I'm calling P-H. bless you.

'bye --



On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Karen Vaught-Alexander wrote:

> Hi, again,
> oh, kindred spirit,
> 
> I use the Prose Style book by Miles, Bertonasco, & Karns, 2nd ed., 1991, 
> Prentice Hall with my Advanced Writing crew, supplemented by my own stuff.
> 
> Students respond well to this text--many having a epiphany that so 
> changes their writing (and reading of literature) that I have had other 
> English department professors comment on the extraordinary change. I 
> wonder why there are so few of us doing this if the results are so 
> gratifying????
> 
> Karen
> 
> 
> On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Margaret Clark wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Karen Vaught-Alexander wrote:
> > 
> > > Textlinguistics and discourse analysis issues often permeate my Advanced 
> > > Writing class--some of my students think the class should be called 
> > > Advanced Writing AND Advanced Reading. What happens is my undergraduates 
> > > end up doing textual analysis on almost the graduate level--the impact on 
> > > them as writers is so powerful. They get excited about revising and 
> > > crafting their ideas the way they really mean.
> > > 
> > > My secondary students had no text. I just used my own constructed 
> > > handouts, etc. I have toyed with the idea of putting together something 
> > > for the secondary level using this approach.
> > > 
> > > I am overjoyed too. A kindred spirit that takes grammar structures, 
> > > diction, and punctuation choices to the level of meaning, intent, voice, etc.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for your response.
> > > 
> > > Karen
> > 
> > Ah, yes, my experience exactly. All I need is a group of moderately
> > serious people -- which does not describe my dev. writing students, bless
> > their hearts -- and they just start leaping around like happy puppies. I
> > think that this kind of instruction meets some really strong heretofore
> > unmet need. I thought the only reason I liked it because I was smart and
> > weird. Either there are a lot more smart, weird people in the world than I
> > ever dreamed, or this approach to writing and reading just clicks. 
> > 
> > Okay, now to the"T" question; what textbooks do you use? Or are you 
> > scraping odds and ends (_wonderful_ odds and ends) together like I am?
> > 
> > Eagerly awaiting your reply -- but not checking my mail until Monday --
> > 
> > Margaret
> > 
> > 
>