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Response To Kelly Ritter, Peter Elbow Dec 2010

Response To Kelly Ritter, Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

No abstract provided.


What Is Real College Writing? Let The Disagreement Never End, Peter Elbow Dec 2010

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 Dec 2009

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 Dec 2009

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 Dec 2009

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 Dec 2009

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 Dec 2009

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 Dec 2009

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 Dec 2009

12. How Does Reading Aloud Improve Writing, Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

No abstract provided.


0 Table Of Contents And Introduction, Peter Elbow Dec 2009

0 Table Of Contents And Introduction, Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

newer version


Freewriting And Free Speech: A Pragmatic Perspective, Peter Elbow, Janet Bean Dec 2009

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 Dec 2009

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 Dec 2009

18. A New Culture Of Vernacular Literacy On The Horizon, Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

No abstract provided.


Appendix To A Unilateral Grading Contract To Improve Learning And Teaching [Written With Jane Danielewicz], Peter Elbow Dec 2008

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 Dec 2008

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 Jan 2008

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 Dec 2007

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 Dec 2007

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 Oct 2007

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 Mar 2007

Should We Invite Students To Write In Home Languages? Complicating The Yes/No Debate, Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

No abstract provided.


Vernacular Literacy, Peter Elbow Dec 2006

Vernacular Literacy, Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

No abstract provided.


The Music Of Form, Peter Elbow May 2006

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 Dec 2005

Foreword: "When The Margins Are At The Center", Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

No abstract provided.


Vernacular Literacy, Peter Elbow Dec 2005

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 Dec 2005

"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 Dec 2004

Bringing The Rhetoric Of Assent And The Believing Game Together - And Into The Classroom, Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

To Wayne Booth‘s argument for assent, I assent. I will explore our large agreement, our small difference—and then describe some specific classroom practices that can support our common desire to improve rhetoric, thinking, and teaching.


"A Friendly Challenge To Push The Outcomes Statement Further", Peter Elbow Dec 2004

"A Friendly Challenge To Push The Outcomes Statement Further", Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

No abstract provided.


"How To Enhance Learning By Using High-Stakes And Low-Stakes Writing", Peter Elbow, Mary Deane Sorcinelli Dec 2004

"How To Enhance Learning By Using High-Stakes And Low-Stakes Writing", Peter Elbow, Mary Deane Sorcinelli

Peter Elbow

No abstract provided.


Write First: Putting Writing Before Reading Is An Effective Approach To Teaching And Learning, Peter Elbow Dec 2003

Write First: Putting Writing Before Reading Is An Effective Approach To Teaching And Learning, Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

The phrase “reading and writing” reflects the implicit assumption that reading comes first and that writing must follow. First graders can “write” all the words they can say, albeit in their own manner and using invented spelling. Encouraging this kind of writing gives children control over letters and texts, giving them an understanding that they need ultimately for reading. The word learning itself tends to promote reading over writing because we often assume learning refers to input, not output, that it’s a matter of putting other people’s ideas inside us. Writing is more caught up with meaning making, however, and …


The Cultures Of Literature And Composition: What Could Each Learn From The Other?, Peter Elbow Apr 2002

The Cultures Of Literature And Composition: What Could Each Learn From The Other?, Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

No abstract provided.