Re: For Real Writing

[Katherine Fischer <kfischer@keller.clarke.edu>]

Yes, Will, I'll second your second (and raise you ten?)

Starkey's book is so fine because it refuses the artifical walls
between the "academic" and "personal" and "creative."  Frost knew about
walls. Seeing the teaching of *all* writing as a creative endeavor, as a
thinking endeavor, regardless of what course title it carries, I believe,
is a wonderful start.

Several people have written me offlist about the Bishop and Ostram text I
mentioned earlier.  I'll add these to Will's suggestion along with the
older _Elements of Alternate Style_ by Wendy Bishop from Boynton.  In the
later text, I'd particularly suggest these two chapters:

Bishop, Wendy.  "Preaching What We Practice as Professionals in Writing,"
	Genre and Writing:  Issues, Arguments, Alternatives.  Wendy Bishop
	and Hans Ostrom, eds.  	Portsmouth:  Boynton, 1997.
Ostrom, Hans.  "Countee Cullen:  How Teaching Rewrites the Genre of
	'Writer'," Genre and 	Writing:  Issues, Arguments, Alternatives.  
	Wendy Bishop and Hans Ostrom, eds.  	Portsmouth:  Boynton,
	1997.

(I've got a chapter coming out sometime or other from Stylus, too, on this
topic in a text edited by Donna Reiss and Dona Hickey.)  

Katie

 On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, WILL HOCHMAN wrote:

> I'll pick up on Katie's charge by suggesting a good book for comp teachers
> just out with Boynton Cook called _Teaching Writing Creatively_ edited by
> David Starkey--the book's essays are about how to infuse academic prose
> with creativity and how to use creativity to improve writing
> instruction...I'm lucky to have one of my own essay's in this fine
> collection that features work by Fullwiler, Young, Bishop and lots of
> other good folks...will hochman
> 
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