Teaching Academic Literacy Book

Contents: B. Walvoord, Foreword. L. Flower, Preface. S.L. Fox, S. Greene, K.L. Weese, Introduction: The Value of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's First-Year Writing Curriculum. Part I: The Wisconsin Program. K.L. Weese, Learning From Students: An Approach to Teaching Beginning College Writers. S.L. Fox, Inviting Students to Join the Literacy Conversation: Toward a Collaborative Pedagogy for Academic Literacy. K.L. Weese, "Only Connect": Sequencing Assignments in the Beginning Writing Class. Part II: Classroom Research Studies. N. Preus, The Legacy of Schooling: Secondary School Composition and the Beginning College Writer. S. Greene, How Beginning Writing Students Interpret the Task of Writing an Academic Argument. M.C. Paretti, Intertextuality, Genre, and Beginning Writers: Mining Your Own Texts. J. French, The Dialogic Writing Conference: Negotiating and Predicting the Role of Author. S. Greene, E. Smith, Teaching Talk About Writing: Student Conflict in Acquiring a New Discourse of Authorship Through Collaborative Planning. D. Bartholomae, The Study of Error. D. Brandt, Afterword: A Nation of Authors. Appendices: Major Assignments Used in the UW-Madison Literacy Course. Prewriting Exercises and Writing Assignments to Aid Students in Composing the Formal Papers. Suggested Readings.