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Good Enough Evaluation, Peter Elbow
Good Enough Evaluation, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
For inclusion in a collection honoring Ed White. I have to revise this by mid month and would welcome any feedback if someone is moved to give it
Using Careless Speech For Careful, Well Crafted Writing--Whatever Its Style, Peter Elbow
Using Careless Speech For Careful, Well Crafted Writing--Whatever Its Style, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
I write here to correct a common misreading of my work. I've not been fighting all these years just to make writing easier by loosening standards; I've been fighting to make writing better. Especially in my recent *Vernacular Eloquence*, I've been trying help people use their vernacular spoken language to produce writing that is nevertheless careful and excellent--to break out of the unclear, roundabout, or mashed-potatoes prose they so often produce when they try to write right.
“Good Enough Evaluation: When Is It Feasible And When Is Evaluation Not Worth Having?”, Peter Elbow
“Good Enough Evaluation: When Is It Feasible And When Is Evaluation Not Worth Having?”, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
Response To Kelly Ritter, Peter Elbow
What Is Real College Writing? Let The Disagreement Never End, Peter Elbow
What Is Real College Writing? Let The Disagreement Never End, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
No abstract provided.
11. Revising By Reading Aloud. What The Mouth And Ear Know, Peter Elbow
11. Revising By Reading Aloud. What The Mouth And Ear Know, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
No abstract provided.
Introduction To Part One: Defining "Speech" And "Writing", Peter Elbow
Introduction To Part One: Defining "Speech" And "Writing", Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
No abstract provided.
5. Intonation: A Virtue For Writing Found At The Root Of Everyday Speech, Peter Elbow
5. Intonation: A Virtue For Writing Found At The Root Of Everyday Speech, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
No abstract provided.
10. The Need For Care: Easy Speaking Onto The Page Is Never Enough, Peter Elbow
10. The Need For Care: Easy Speaking Onto The Page Is Never Enough, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
No abstract provided.
4. Speech As Product: Eight Virtues In Careless Spoken Language, Peter Elbow
4. Speech As Product: Eight Virtues In Careless Spoken Language, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
No abstract provided.
3. The Process Of Speaking: What Can It Offer Writing?, Peter Elbow
3. The Process Of Speaking: What Can It Offer Writing?, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
No abstract provided.
12. How Does Reading Aloud Improve Writing, Peter Elbow
12. How Does Reading Aloud Improve Writing, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
No abstract provided.
0 Table Of Contents And Introduction, Peter Elbow
Freewriting And Free Speech: A Pragmatic Perspective, Peter Elbow, Janet Bean
Freewriting And Free Speech: A Pragmatic Perspective, Peter Elbow, Janet Bean
Peter Elbow
No abstract provided.
7. Freewriting: An Obvious And Easy Way To Speak Onto The Page, Peter Elbow
7. Freewriting: An Obvious And Easy Way To Speak Onto The Page, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
No abstract provided.
18. A New Culture Of Vernacular Literacy On The Horizon, Peter Elbow
18. A New Culture Of Vernacular Literacy On The Horizon, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
No abstract provided.
Good Enough Evaluation, Peter Elbow
Good Enough Evaluation, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
For inclusion in a collection honoring Ed White. I have to revise this by mid month and would welcome any feedback if someone is moved to give it
Appendix To A Unilateral Grading Contract To Improve Learning And Teaching [Written With Jane Danielewicz], Peter Elbow
Appendix To A Unilateral Grading Contract To Improve Learning And Teaching [Written With Jane Danielewicz], Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
This is an appendix that is meant to accompany the essay published in *College Composition and Communication* Vol 61, No 2, December 2009.
The Believing Game Or Methodological Believing, Peter Elbow
The Believing Game Or Methodological Believing, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
The kind of thinking most widely honored is often called "critical thinking." I call it "the doubting game" because the premise is that we should test ideas by subjecting them to the discipline of doubt. It's a valuable and necessary methodology for good thinking because it trains us to find hidden flaws in ideas that sound attractive or that are widely assumed to be true.
In this essay I suggest a different kind of thinking that is equally important but little honored or even noticed. I call it the believing game because the premise is that we should test ideas …
Coming To See Myself As A Vernacular Intellectual, Peter Elbow
Coming To See Myself As A Vernacular Intellectual, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
A short essay taken from remarks at the annual 2007 convention on getting the Exemplar Award. I look back over my career as an ongoing attempt to democratize writing--operating from the stance of a "vernacular intellectual" (a concept coined by Grant Farret).
Why Deny Speakers Of African American Language A Choice Most Of Us Offer Other Students?, Peter Elbow
Why Deny Speakers Of African American Language A Choice Most Of Us Offer Other Students?, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
Mainstream teachers commonly invite mainstream students to freewrite and use very informal language for early and mid drafts of important academic essays--and hold off surface editing till the end. This amounts to inviting mainstream students to do lots of writing in their spoken vernacular--and to wait till the end to edit into a clearly different dialect: edited ("correct standard") written English. This essay argues the same approach for speakers of African American Language--and addresses objections.
The Believing Game--Methodological Believing, Peter Elbow
The Believing Game--Methodological Believing, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
A defintion of the believing and doubting games; a thumbnail idealized history of believing and doubting; and three arguments why we need the believing game. Paper given 4/08 at annual CCCC.
Voice In Writing Again: Embracing Contraries, Peter Elbow
Voice In Writing Again: Embracing Contraries, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
"Voice in writing" has fallen into a kind of limbo as a topic: it's vexed; it's discredited by most composition scholars; it's not much written about recently; and yet it remains widely used by readers, teachers, and writers. I examine good reasons for paying lots of attention to voice when we read and teach writing; and also good reasons for ignoring it. And finally insist that we can usefully do both.
Should We Invite Students To Write In Home Languages? Complicating The Yes/No Debate, Peter Elbow
Should We Invite Students To Write In Home Languages? Complicating The Yes/No Debate, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
No abstract provided.
The Music Of Form, Peter Elbow
The Music Of Form, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
The concept itself of "organization" tends to be biased towards a picture of how objects are organized in space--and neglects the story of how events are organized in time. I’ll explore five ways to organize written language that harness or bind time. In effect, I'm exploring form as a source of energy.
Foreword: "When The Margins Are At The Center", Peter Elbow
Foreword: "When The Margins Are At The Center", Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
No abstract provided.
Vernacular Literacy, Peter Elbow
Vernacular Literacy, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
How our present culture of literacy serves to exclude many many potential writers--and why changing that culture is a sensible and feasible goal
"The Believing Game And How To Make Conflicting Opinions More Fruitful", Peter Elbow
"The Believing Game And How To Make Conflicting Opinions More Fruitful", Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
No abstract provided.
Bringing The Rhetoric Of Assent And The Believing Game Together - And Into The Classroom, Peter Elbow
Bringing The Rhetoric Of Assent And The Believing Game Together - And Into The Classroom, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
"A Friendly Challenge To Push The Outcomes Statement Further", Peter Elbow
"A Friendly Challenge To Push The Outcomes Statement Further", Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
No abstract provided.