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"Still a groundbreaking work for composition studies. I want all new teachers in our program to have exposure to its approach to error."--John Hollowell, University of California at Irvine
"The definitive text in basic writing."--Louise Z. Smith, University of Massachusetts, Boston
"A classic--writing teachers are not educated if they haven't read it."--Nancy Shapiro, University of Maryland
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This review is from: Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing (Paperback)
In the dry world of composition theory, Shaughnessy's brilliantdiscussion of error in student writing stands as a landmark. Aftertwenty-plus years, this book remains highly readable and one of the half dozen most important books in the field. I particularly admire the writer's refusal to slip into the pseudo-scientific jargon that typifies the trendy, flimsy, unreadable literature that comprises the field of composition. Anyone who teaches writing at a high school or college level would benefit from reading this fine book.
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With the patience and attention to detail of a saint, Professor Shaughnessy hunted, and found, patterns in her students' writing that allowed her to lift each student to his or her true potential. This is THE book for the teacher of basic, first-language writing. Her prose is stunning in itself and is a model for the kind of clear, elloquent writing she would espouse. Certainly the best of its kind and as yet to be equalled.
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It's THE book,
This review is from: Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing (Paperback)
I can't agree with Dr. Bruce Leeds more. This is THE book for the teachers of basic writers. Also, it is food for thought for ESL writing teachers. This book is a classic. I am waiting for another equivalent classic for an ESL writing teacher like me.
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Toward the end of the sixties and largely in response to the protests of that decade, many four-year colleges began admitting students who were not by traditional standards ready for college. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Toward the end of the sixties and largely in response to the protests of that decade, many four-year colleges began admitting students who were not by traditional standards ready for college. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
graphemic options, intermediate writer, freshman writer, placement essays, base sentence, grammatical intuitions, basic writer, erroneous forms, proofreading stage, inexperienced writer, terminal punctuation, academic vocabulary, verb system, analytical writing, apprentice writer, advanced writers, subordinate structures, grammatical concepts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Ladle Rat Rotten Hut, Brooklyn College, Black Boy, United States, Basic Books, Black English Vernacular, Kenneth Bruffee, Labor Department, Dark Ages, Journal of Basic Writing, Patricia Laurence, Sentence Combining New!
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- Black Boy (The Restored Text Established by The Library of America) (Perennial Classics) by Richard A. Wright on page 251, page 253, and page 254
- Notes Toward a New Rhetoric: Nine Essays for Teachers. by Francis. Christensen on page 272, and Back Matter
- Semantics: An Introduction to the Science of Meaning by Stephen Ullmann on page 191, and Back Matter
- Notes Toward a New Rhetoric: Nine Essays for Teachers by Francis Christensen on page 272, and Back Matter
- Language, the Learner, and the School by James Britton on page 76, and Back Matter
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- Research in Basic Writing: A Bibliographic Sourcebook by Michael G. Moran on 20 pages
- The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook by the late Edward P. J. Corbett on 14 pages
- A Guide to Composition Pedagogies by Gary Tate on 10 pages
- Dialogue on Writing: Rethinking ESL, Basic Writing, and First-year Composition by Geraldine DeLuca on 10 pages
- Reforming College Composition: Writing the Wrongs (Contributions to the Study of Education) by Alan Jackson on 8 pages
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