Writing on the Margins: Essays on Composition and Teaching Book

Pt. 1	The study of error	17
	The study of error	19
	Released into language : errors, expectations, and the legacy of Mina Shaughnessy	36
	Inventing the university	60
	Wanderings : misreadings, miswritings, misunderstandings	86
	Writing on the margins : the concept of literacy in higher education	111
	Telling secrets : student readers and disciplinary authorities	128
	Postscript : the study of error	148
Pt. 2	Teaching composition	155
	Teaching basic writing : an alternative to basic skills	157
	Writing assignments : where writing begins	177
	Against the grain	192
	Wistful and admiring : the rhetoric of combination	201
	The reading of reading : I. A. Richards and M. J. Adler	217
	Producing adult readers, 1930-50	228
	The argument of reading	244
	Stop making sense : art interview with David Bartholomae	255
	Introduction : ways of reading	272
	Postscript : teaching composition	289
Pt. 3	The profession	297
	Freshman English, composition, and CCCC	299
	The tidy house : basic writing in the American curriculum	312
	What is composition (and if you know what that is) why do we teach it?	327
	Composition : 1900-2000	343
	Literacy and departments of language and literature	349
	Reading and writing in the academy : a conversation with David Bartholomae	358
	Postscript : the profession	372