Intertexts: Reading Pedagogy in College Writing Classrooms

✍ Scribed by Marguerite Helmers

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 270
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

What do we mean when we talk about reading? What does it mean to "teach reading?" What place does reading have in the college writing classroom? Intertexts: Reading Pedagogy in College Writing Classrooms theoretically and practically situates the teaching of reading as a common pedagogical practice in the college writing classroom. As a whole, the book argues for rethinking the separation of reading and writing within the first-year writing classroom--for an expanded notion of reading that is based on finding and creating meaning from a variety of symbolic forms, not just print-based texts but also other forms, such as Web sites and visual images. The chapter authors represent a range of cultural, personal, and rhetorical perspectives, including cultural studies, classical rhetoric, visual rhetoric, electronic literacy, reader response theory, creative writing, and critical theories of literature and literary criticism. This volume, an important contribution to composition studies, is essential reading for researchers, instructors, writing program administrators, and students involved in college writing instruction and literature.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 18
CULTURE......Page 20
1 Introduction: Representing Reading......Page 22
2 Closer than Close Reading: Historical Analysis, Cultural Analysis, and Symptomatic Reading in the Undergraduate Classroom......Page 46
3 Reading as a Site of Spiritual Struggle......Page 70
THEORY......Page 88
4 The Master Double Frame and Other Lessons from Classical Education......Page 90
5 Whatever Happened to Reader-Response Criticism?......Page 120
6 Reading the Visual in College Writing Classes......Page 142
CLASSROOM......Page 170
7 The Rereading/Rewriting Process: Theory and Collaborative, Online Pedagogy......Page 172
8 (Re)Reading and Writing Genres of Discourse: Creative Writing as General Education......Page 192
9 Reading Matters for Writing......Page 214
Afterword......Page 238
Contributors......Page 246
C......Page 250
H......Page 251
N......Page 252
S......Page 253
Y......Page 254
A......Page 256
C......Page 257
E......Page 259
F......Page 260
I......Page 261
L......Page 262
N......Page 263
P......Page 264
R......Page 265
S......Page 267
T......Page 268
W......Page 269
Y......Page 270