Revision

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Explores the wide range of scholarship on revision while bringing new light to bear on enduring questions in composition and rhetoric.

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• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 22 mai 2006
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781643170060
• Langue: English

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Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition
Series Editor, Charles Bazerman
The Series provides compact, comprehensive and convenient surveys of what has been learned through research and practice as composition has emerged as an academic discipline over the last half century. Each volume is devoted to a single topic that has been of interest in rhetoric and composition in recent years, to synthesize and make available the sum and parts of what has been learned on that topic. These reference guides are designed to help deepen classroom practice by making available the collective wisdom of the field and will provide the basis for new research. The Series is intended to be of use to teachers at all levels of education, researchers and scholars of writing, graduate students learning about the field, and all who have interest in or responsibility for writing programs and the teaching of writing.
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Revision
History, Theory, and Practice
Edited by Alice Horning and Anne Becker
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Revision : history, theory, and practice / edited by Alice Horning, Anne Becker.
p. cm. -- (Reference guides to rhetoric and composition)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-932559-75-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 1-932559-76-0
(hardcover : alk. paper) -- ISBN 1-932559-77-9 (adobe ebook)
1. Editing. I. Horning, Alice S. II. Becker, Anne, 1944- .
III. Series.
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Contents
Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition
Preface
1 Introduction and Overview
2 Definitions and Distinctions
Revision Defined by Scholars
Revision Defined in Practice
Revision as Correction
Revision as Development and Discovery
Revision as Rhetorical Goal-Setting and Function
Revision as Assertion of Identity
Students and Revision
Crucial Role for Teaching Revision Well
3 A Review of Writing Model Research Based on Cognitive Processes
Early Models—Basic Processes and Their Key Sub-Categories
Task-centered Models—Assessing the Role of Reading and Memory in Revision
Recent Research—Continued Analysis and Testing to Validate Revision Models
Instructional Techniques
Computers and Their Impact on Writing Model Research
Implications for Classroom Instruction
4 Basic Writers and Revision
Defining Basic Writers
Awarenesses and Basic Writers
Skills and Basic Writers
A “Pivotal Moment:” Some Suggestions and Recommendations
5 Revision and ESL Students
History of the Discipline
Diversity of the ESL Student Population
Revision Attitudes of ESL Students
Revision Patterns of ESL Students
Revision Effectiveness of ESL Students
Revision Feedback by Teachers
Timing of Revision Feedback
Most Effective Techniques of Revision Feedback
Peer Revision Feedback
Alternative Strategies to Support Revision
6 What’s in a Textbook?
Handbooks
Revision Focused Textbooks
Readers
Appendix: A Listing of Books from Major Composition Publishers
7 Revising with Word Processing/Technology/Document Design
Scholarship about Computer Applications and Revision
Basic Computer Applications and Revision Strategies
Cut and Paste
Font Formatting
Textual Analysis Tools
Track Changes
Highlighting and Commenting
Other Applications for Peer Review
Remediation, Redesign, and Revision
Conclusion
Appendix: Directions for Using the Track Changes Tool in Microsoft Word
Using the Track Changes Tool
Customizing the Look of Your Changes
8 Professional Writers and Revision
Awarenesses and Skills: A Summary
Professionals’ Awareness
Professionals’ Skills
Methodology for the Case Studies
Case studies: Writing Teachers Revising
Background Questionnaire for Subject A
Task Questionnaire for Subject A
Observation of Subject A
Analysis of Revising: Subject A
Background Questionnaire for Subject B
Task Questionnaire for Subject B
Observation Report for Subject B
Analysis of Revising: Subject B
Cross-Case Analysis
Pedagogical Suggestions: A Summary
Appendix A: Background Questionnaire on Writing and Revising Strategies
Appendix B: Questionnaire for Revising Session
Appendix C: Practice Passage for Think Aloud.
9 Creative Writers and Revision
Creativity and Revision
Writers on Revision
Revision and Computers
The Role of Collaborators and Editors
Revision of Proofs and Galleys
Revision after Publication
Scholars Study Revision: Process Criticism
Wordsworth, Parallel Texts, Nabokov, Poststructuralism, Hypertext and Beyond
10 Best Classroom Practices
Introduction
Peer Review
Writing Centers and Other Writing Support Programs
Portfolios
Teacher and Student Conferences
Group Review Exercise
Modeling Exercise #1
Modeling Exercise #2
Role-Playing Exercise #1
Role-Playing Exercise #2
11 Practical Guidelines for Writers and Teachers
Revision: A Complex, Intuitive, and Elusive Process
The Dangers of Practical Strategies
Revision’s Secret Identity
The Fallacy of the Natural Writer
The Difference between Deep Revision and Final Editing
The Ants-at-a-Picnic Metaphor
Breaking Old Habits: Colorizing Comments
Including Good News with the Bad
Building Time into the Process
If It’s Not a Draft, It’s a Revision
Risk-Free Revision
Divide and Conquer—Clusters of Consideration
Content: Argument, Logic, Narrative, Organization
Rhetorical Decisions: Purpose, Genre, Audience, Tone, and Point of View
Visualizing Henrietta
Style
Voice
Mechanics
This Much We Know Is True—Writing Teachers Who Write
Glossary
Annotated Bibliography
Works Cited
Index to the Print Edition
Contributors


Preface
Revision holds a special place in writing research, practice and pedagogy. As a highly visible, public, and craft-like aspect of the writing process, revision early became associated with writing skill in a way that appealed to teachers and writers of all levels and approaches to writing. Working with existing text and improving it has a substantial and finite quality that defines it in ways that elude the more evanescent and complex invention, as reviewed in the first volume in this series. Nonetheless, revision moves beyond narrow issues of correctness, associated with editing and error based evaluation, to engage some of the complexity and subtlety of the writer’s craft. Revision is something that published writers could attest to and literary archives could reveal in the multiple drafts of famous works. In composition pedagogy revision is a key focus of individual student-teacher conferences, discussing how a student paper could be improved. In revision one can concretely help students in a focused way that matches their levels of skill and learning as well as their expressive motives. As tutorial labs emerged, revision was a natural site of work, as it also became for small peer groups—for it was a task that students could provide useful help to each other.
For those whose pedagogy emphasizes expression and creativity, the security of having well developed revision opportunities and support later in the process frees students in the earliest stages of writing to turn off the censor; nonetheless, this postponement of craft work until text has emerged to work on provides concrete focus and motive for attention to language. For those concerned with development of specific elements of student writin