Letters for the Living: Teaching Writing in a Violent AgeThis book takes up issues of violence in the lives of college students and looks for possibilities of teaching composition as an act of peace making. Through a variety of writings, the book illustrates students' experiences on the city streets of New York and in the small mining and steel towns of western Pennsylvania. One section of the book reports on a project that linked one author/educator's (Hurlbert) research writing class and the other author/educator's (Blitz) freshman composition II class. In the semester-long project, the classes researched and wrote about their own neighborhoods and the neighborhoods of their interstate partners. The book states that these two groups of students taught each other about the places in which they live and the ways in which they live there, and in many cases, what each learned about the other was "shocking." It also shares with the reader letters in which the two author/educators reflect upon their work as teachers, in an effort to understand the personal and cultural implications of what students write and say. (Contains 101 references.) (NKA). |
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Page 58
... completely pure or innocent account of pain untouched by the constraints of writing — including scientific writing . Yet writ- ers also offer a unique resource because they use language in ways that , paradoxically , acknowledge ...
... completely pure or innocent account of pain untouched by the constraints of writing — including scientific writing . Yet writ- ers also offer a unique resource because they use language in ways that , paradoxically , acknowledge ...
Page 71
... completely comfortable with the idea that they have two homes , and that each is theirs , with their things , their signs , their marks . Mark , you wrote : What can they teach us ? matters turning on darkness and carving space out of ...
... completely comfortable with the idea that they have two homes , and that each is theirs , with their things , their signs , their marks . Mark , you wrote : What can they teach us ? matters turning on darkness and carving space out of ...
Page 106
... completely alienated you I suppose that I have your attention . Please bear with me as I try not to stick my foot in my mouth again , which is hard for me to do because it comes so naturally to me . What impressed me so much was how ...
... completely alienated you I suppose that I have your attention . Please bear with me as I try not to stick my foot in my mouth again , which is hard for me to do because it comes so naturally to me . What impressed me so much was how ...
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