| Writing and the Writer Contributor(s): Smith, Frank (Author) |
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ISBN: 0805814221 ISBN-13: 9780805814224 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1994 Annotation: Exploring the relationship between the writer and what he/she happens to be writing, this text by one of the foremost scholars in the field of literacy and cognition is a unique and original examination of writing--as a craft and as a cognitive activity. The book is concerned with the physical activity of writing, the way the nervous system recruits the muscles to move the pen or manipulate the typewriter. It considers the necessary disciplines of writing, such as knowledge of the conventions of grammar, spelling, and punctuation. In particular, there is a concern with how the skills underlying all these aspects of writing are learned and orchestrated. br br This second edition includes many new insights from the author's significant experience and from recent research, providing a framework for thinking about the act of writing in both theoretical and practical ways. A completely new chapter on computers and writing is included, as well as more about the role of reading in learning to write, about learning to write at all ages, and about such controversial issues as whether and how genre theory should be taught. br br Written in nontechnical language, this text will continue to be accessible and stimulating to a wide range of readers concerned with writing, literacy, thinking, and education. Furthermore, it has an educational orientation, therefore proving relevant and useful to anyone who teaches about writing or endeavors to teach writing. br |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies |
| Dewey: 808.001 |
| LCCN: 94011555 |
| Lexile Measure: 1320 |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6.3" W x 9" (0.91 lbs) 304 pages |