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Facts, Artifacts, and Counterfacts: Theory and Method for a Reading and Writing Course

by David Bartholomae (Author), Anthony Petrosky (Editor)
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ISBN-13: 978-0867091359
ISBN-10: 0867091355
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  • Paperback: 226 pages
  • Publisher: Heinemann (April 16, 1986)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0867091355
  • ISBN-13: 978-0867091359
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsPittsburgh Method changed my writing class forever.
By Ian Sherman on February 23, 2013
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I can't speak highly enough of the pedagogy outlined in Facts, Artifacts, and Counterfacts: often called "Pittsburgh Method," it forms the basis of the approach behind Bartholomae and Petrosky's popular textbook series, Ways of Reading.

The idea here is indeed radical, especially in a developmental writing course:
1. Have students work with complex, often confusing texts--the sorts of texts graduate students would be exposed to. The sorts of texts faculty themselves enjoy reading and discussing.
2. Structure assignments to allow multiple engagements with the texts: rereading and even third and fourth readings as part of the assignment cycle. In the meantime, students are writing and discussing the readings as they form deeper, more nuanced understandings of the text.
3. Avoid interpreting or summarizing the text for students; challenge them to form their own relationship with the reading.
4. Have students write argumentative essays applying the ideas of the texts--even if they don't feel 100% confident in their understanding.

The goal here is not just increased reading level and exposure to complex ideas: it's also an increase in confidence and authority, as students discover what it's like to push through confusion into greater and greater comprehension.

After working with the ideas from Bartholomae and Petrosky for more than six years now in my own classes, I would feel unsatisfied and frustrated going back to a more surface-level read or less challenging reading. What's more, I've really witnessed firsthand the increase in confidence that this pedagogy can create. Give it a try. It requires a radical act of trust in your students' ability, and it requires a lot of support and encouragement along the way, but the end results are well worth it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsMust-have Resource
By Sarah K on March 6, 2016
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For any teacher/professor of anything related to the humanities, this book is a highly accessible reference to course design, particularly for students who haven't yet found their motivation to learn.
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5.0 out of 5 starsUseful for all comp levels and instructors
By Brittany W on May 23, 2013
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It's been almost 30 years since this book was originally published, and the concerns it presents about remedial/developmental writing courses are still relevant today. Typically, developmental writing classes focus on the sentence and paragraph level, assuming that you have to get it right at the local level before you can 'graduate' to more difficult writing tasks. Bartholomae and Petrosky think this is wrong, wrong, wrong--it's not, as Bartholomae argued in his famous essay "Inventing the University," a matter of writing in some generalized 'correct' form, but of being initiated into a particular kind of discourse--academic discourse, to be exact.

Here's an overview of a course they describe:

Some features:
* Students meet for six hours a week, rather than three, and receive course credit (not ideas transferable everywhere, obviously, but as the authors point out, if we reserved credit for courses students had already mastered the content of, there wouldn't be any point)
* The course is co-taught by two instructors
* Five of the six hours are dedicated to the regular course content; the final hour is in-class silent reading, of whatever the students themselves choose to bring and read
* Rather than the instructors presenting a standard, homogenized reading of any particular text, students generate their understandings of the text both individually and corporately--diversity is encouraged
* The course is organized around a particular theme, which changes (the course they describe in the most detail, from what I remember, was centered on a "coming of age" theme)

The process, as I recall it:
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