Writing Matters: A Handbook for Writing and Research - Hardcover

Howard, Rebecca Moore

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0072418753 ISBN 13: 9780072418750

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities Social, 2009

Synopsis

Writing Matters offers writing instructors and students a four-part framework that focuses the rules and conventions of writing through a lens of responsibility, empowering students to own their ideas and to view their writing as consequential.

Writing Matters helps students recognize and respect their role in writing by focusing on four key areas of responsibility: Their responsibility to other writers, to their audience, to their topic, and to themselves.

Howard's teaching experience has proven that students are more likely to write effectively and responsibly when they think of themselves as writers rather than as error-makers. Writing Matters addresses students respectfully as mature and capable fellow writers in the research and writing process.

About this title

About the Author

REBECCA MOORE HOWARD chairs and directs the Writing Program at Syracuse University. She is co-author of "Standing in the Shadow of Giants" (1999), "The Bedford Guide to Teaching Writing in the Disciplines" (1995), and co-editor of "Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum" (2000 forthcoming).

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072418753
• ISBN 13: 9780072418750
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 867