| Multiple Genres, Multiple Voices: Teaching Argument in Composition and Literature Contributor(s): Johnson, Cheryl (Author), Moneysmith, Jayne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0867095474 ISBN-13: 9780867095470 Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books OUR PRICE: $40.54 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2005 Annotation: "The authors have indeed made a major new contribution to the discussion about how to teach research-based writing." - Bruce Ballenger, Author of "Beyond Note Cards"The assignment: Teaching the dreaded college research paper. The challenge: Motivating students to take risks and think critically and imaginatively, while teaching them to infuse their argumentative essays with research. The solution: Introducing the multi-voiced argument (MVA) into your syllabus. The MVA explores the many perspectives of an argument by using multiple genres written from different points of view. As Cheryl Johnson and Jayne Moneysmith explain, the MVA is the instructor's answer to dullness, predictability, and disengagement-it invigorates teaching and energizes student writers by engaging them in informed role-playing, rigorous research, and sophisticated analysis. Practical and teacher-centered, "Multiple Genres, Multiple Voices" presents a step-by-step approach to teaching the MVA in order to deepen student's critical thinking and sharpen their creative expression, all while meeting your college or university's core writing goals. It includes practical features such as: classroom-tested exercises and assignments strategies for responding and evaluationtwo complete student examples that demonstrate how to develop a multivoiced projectadditional student examples of creative MVA projects on the book's accompanying websiteapproaches for both composition and literature classrooms. A companion website has been developed as an integral component to support the use of this text. It provides an extensive collection of materials designed to enhance teaching MVAs, including suggestions for preliminaryassignments that set up capstone MVAs, more activities to use in class, shorter capstone projects, assignment sheets, and class handouts. Stimulate research and genuine intellectual conversation by using the MVA in your teaching of argument. Read "Multiple Voices, Multiple Genres" and find out why many voices are better than one. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric |
| Dewey: 808.042 |
| LCCN: 2004028013 |
| Series: Crosscurrents |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 7.1" W x 9.17" (0.40 lbs) 120 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The assignment: Teaching the dreaded college research paper. The challenge: Motivating students to take risks and think critically and imaginatively, while teaching them to infuse their argumentative essays with research. The solution: Introducing the multi-voiced argument (MVA) into your syllabus. The MVA explores the many perspectives of an argument by using multiple genres written from different points of view. As Cheryl Johnson and Jayne Moneysmith explain, the MVA is the instructor's answer to dullness, predictability, and disengagement-it invigorates teaching and energizes student writers by engaging them in informed role-playing, rigorous research, and sophisticated analysis. Practical and teacher-centered, Multiple Genres, Multiple Voices presents a step-by-step approach to teaching the MVA in order to deepen student's critical thinking and sharpen their creative expression, all while meeting your college or university's core writing goals. It includes practical features such as:
A companion website has been developed as an integral component to support the use of this text. It provides an extensive collection of materials designed to enhance teaching MVAs, including suggestions for preliminary assignments that set up capstone MVAs, more activities to use in class, shorter capstone projects, assignment sheets, and class handouts. Stimulate research and genuine intellectual conversation by using the MVA in your teaching of argument. Read Multiple Voices, Multiple Genres and find out why many voices are better than one. |
Contributor Bio(s): Moneysmith, Jayne: - Jayne A. Moneysmith is associate professor of English at Kent State University Stark Campus. She has over a decade of expertise in teaching multigenre and multivocal writing. With Cheryl Johnson, she has presented workshops and lectures on teaching the multivoiced argument at numerous conferences, including CCCC, NCTE, and INCTE regional meetings. They collaborated on "Multigenre Research: Inquiring Voices" for Wendy Bishop's The Subject Is Research (Boynton/Cook, 2001). In addition, she has published articles in AURCO Journal and in International Technical Communication: Case Studies on Global Documentation (2002).Johnson, Cheryl: - Cheryl L. Johnson is a senior instructor in English at the University of Idaho. She has over a decade of expertise in teaching multigenre and multivocal writing. With Jayne Moneysmith, she has presented workshops and lectures on teaching the multivoiced argument at numerous conferences, including CCCC, NCTE, and INCTE regional meetings. They collaborated on "Multigenre Research: Inquiring Voices" for Wendy Bishop's The Subject Is Research (Boynton/Cook, 2001). In addition, she coauthored "Metaphor as Renewal: Re-imagining Our Professional Selves," which appeared in English Journal. |