Refiguring Prose Style : Possibilities For Writing Pedagogy / / edited by T.R. Johnson, Tom Pace.

• TeilnehmendeR: Pace, Tom, 1969-; Johnson, T. R., 1964-
• Place / Publishing House: Logan, Utah : : Utah State University Press,, 2005.; ©2005.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (327 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

For about two decades, say Johnson and Pace, the discussion of how to address prose style in teaching college writing has been stuck, with style standing in as a proxy for other stakes in the theory wars. The traditional argument is evidently still quite persuasive to some-that teaching style is mostly a matter of teaching generic conventions through repetition and practice. Such a position usually presumes the traditional view of composition as essentially a service course, one without content of its own. On the other side, the shortcomings of this argument have been much discu

Table of Contents

Style and the renaissance of composition studies / Tom Pace -- Where is style going? Where has it been? / Elizabeth Weiser -- Contextual stylistics : breaking down the binaries in sentence-level pedagogy / Rebecca Moore Howard -- Style redux / Kathryn Flannery -- The uses of literature / Tina Kelleher -- Persuasion, more than argument : moving toward a literary sensitivity in the classroom / Allison Alsup -- An arts-centric composition classroom / Gabriel Gomez -- Playing with echo : strategies for teaching repetition in the writing classroom / Melissa A. Goldthwaite -- The "Weird Al" style method : playful invention as serious pedagogy / Keith Rhodes -- When their voice is their problem : using imitation to teach the classroom dialect / J. Scott Farrin -- Style : the new grammar in composition studies? / Nicole Amare -- Balancing thought and expression : a short course in style / Lisa Baird -- Rethinking stylistic analysis in the writing class / William J. Carpenter -- Re-placing the sentence : approaching style through genre / Peter Clements -- Tutoring taboo : a reconsideration of style in the writing center / Jesse Kavadlo -- Rhetor-fitting : defining ethics through style / Dion C. Cautrell -- Style as a system : toward a cybernetic model of composition style / Drew Loewe -- Teaching the tropics of inquiry in the composition classroom / M. Todd Harper -- Writing with the ear / T.R. Johnson.