Conversations on the Written Word: Essays on Language and Literacy

Robinson, Jay L.

ISBN 10: 0867092521 / ISBN 13: 9780867092523

Published by Boynton/Cook, 1990

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Light pencil marginalia. Paper white, binding firm.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Conversations on the Written Word: Essays on Language and Literacy
• Publisher: Boynton/Cook
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0867092521
• ISBN 13: 9780867092523
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Pencil Markings
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Synopsis

Conversations on the Written Word is itself a conversation, for more than one voice speaks out in these essays. Three of Robinson's students, who are also his colleagues, contribute essays to the collection: Cathy Fleischer writes about a literacy project in an inner-city high school; Carol Winkelmann wonders about students on the margins in college writing; Patricia Stock joins with Robinson to write about language and learning and ways to think about learning, drawing upon experiences in remedial classes in the University of Michigan and in high school classrooms in an industrial city in Michigan. In Conversations, Robinson carries on his own conversation with his own learning and experience, varied as both have been. A Linguist in an English department who was trained as a medievalist; a chair of an English department in which the dominant interest was and is literature; director of a university-wide writing program; director of programs in education - Robinson brings diverse perspectives to the study of the issues. The essays treat: language and its various uses, literacy and its uses, the social and ethical implications of language use, the pragmatics and practicalities of language learning in secondary and collegiate classrooms.

About the Author

Jay Robinson received his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, and held his first faculty post at Northwestern University. He then moved to the University of Michigan, where he has been since 1965. Robinson has served as Chairman of the English Department and of the English Composition Board, and at present he is Director of the Center for Educational Improvement Through Collaboration, a University unit formed to promote school/university work on mutual educational problems.