Synopses & Reviews
SHOPTALK FOR COLLEGE WRITERS introduces students to the field of composition while allowing them to write for their own purposes from a variety of sources.
About the Author
Sheryl Fontaine is a professor of English and coordinator of the Writing Center at California State University, Fullerton as well as the co-author of Shoptalk, a Wadsworth rhetoric.
Sheryl I. Fontaine and Susan M. Hunter are co-editors of Foregrounding Ethical Awareness in Composition and English Studies and Writing Ourselves Into the Story: Unheard Voices from Composition Studies. Both have published extensively in journals in the field. Both are series editors for the Wadsworth Series in Composition Studies.
Table of Contents
Part I: LOCATING COLLEGE WRITING. 1. Starting Points: An Introduction. 2. You Are Here: Looking at Your Own History as a Writer. 3. A Map of College Writing. 4. Discovering and Creating Your Essay. 5. Response and Collaboration. 6. Editing, Proofreading, and Final Reflections. 7. Writing to Learn: Writing a Second Essay from Recollection and Memory. Part II: FINDING YOUR PLACE IN LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES. 8. How We Are Situated in Language. 9. Familiar Circles of Communication. 10. The Language of Wider Communication. 11. Discovering and Creating Your Draft. 12. Response and Collaboration. 13. Editing, Proofreading, and Final Writing and Reflection. 14. Writing to Learn: Writing a Second Essay from Conversation and Observation. Part III: INTERACTING WITH ACADEMIC TEXTS. 15. Learning the Conventions, Making Your Points, and Creating Your Written Self. 16. Learning Conventions, Making Your Points, and Creating Your Written Self as a College Writer. 17. Placing Yourself in a Conversation in Composition. 18. Discovering and Creating Your Draft. 19. Response and Collaboration. 20. Editing, Proofreading, and Final Reflections.