Smart Writing - Mauk, John

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Résumé :
Writing teachers of all grade levels have been called upon to increase their students' cognitive power. Outcomes across institutions, districts, and states emphasize the need for richness, depth, complexity, rigor, sophistication,or critical thinking in student writing. Yet that quality-no matter how it gets characterized-remains a challenge for both teachers and students. How can teachers most effectively explain, model, and assess such an evasive quality? Smart Writing: Demonstrable and Measurable Skills for More Sophisticated Writing offers a path forward. It details a range of powerful strategies that students can apply directly. The specifics offered here are not vague descriptors. They are moves that get worked out in written passages. They can be adopted and shaped according to assignment, topic, and each writer's comfort level. The goal in each chapter is to eradicate the mysteries of sophisticated writing-to offer samples, activities, and prompts that make student projects richer. In this sense, Smart Writing is not a book for those teaching only gifted, advanced, or highly prepared students. It's for all teachers trying desperately to help students with something that seems now universally valued....

Biographie:
John Mauk began professional life as a liaison between university initiatives and school curricula. As a graduate student in rhetoric and composition, he worked closely with public school teachers and their students. Later, with a PhD, he taught writing and rhetorical theory at three different colleges. He was twice elected professor of the year and received numerous commendations for teaching excellence and student support. He also served as co-director of a National Writing Project site and as the coordinating advisor for Professional Writing majors at Miami University. Mauk also wrote three successful college textbooks: The Composition of Everyday Life (Cengage Learning), Inventing Arguments (Cengage Learning), and Culture: A Reader (Oxford University Press). His pedagogical approach became known for its practical application across curricula and institutions. In recent years, Mauk took up literary writing, publishing stories, essays, and articles about multi-genre writing. He now teaches for adult continuing education programs....

Sommaire:

Introducing the Smart Moves
1. Seeking Complexity
2. Applying a Concept
3. Analyzing Arguments
4. Justifying a Position
5. Applying Sources
6. Seeking Tension
7. Inspecting the Terms
8. Escaping the Status Quo
9. Reflecting
10. Mapping the Moves
11. Assesing the Moves
Glossary of Moves