Questioning authority : stories told in school / Linda Adler-Kassner and Susanmarie Harrington, editors.

Other author Adler-Kassner, Linda.
Other author Harrington, Susanmarie.
Format Book
Publication InfoAnn Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2001.
Descriptionvi, 228 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
English language--Rhetoric. --Study and teaching.
English language--Composition and exercises.
Report writing--Study and teaching.
Storytelling--Study and teaching.

Contents Stories, authority, teaching : making a difference in the composition classroom / Susanmarie Harrington and Linda Adler-Kassner -- Stories, style, and the exploitation of experience / Douglas D. Hesse -- Telling stories : the subject is never just me / Terry Myers Zawacki -- Trailing the essay with Professor Fog / Brad Peters -- Using stories to probe assumptions, question authority, and stabilize meaning / Emily Golson -- La huesera : articulating the skeletons of stories and essays / Laura Brady -- Visualizing the academic essay / Phil Anderson and Anne Aronson -- Expository essay form and the future of newer electronic forms as academic expression / Thomas Reynolds -- Once upon a theory : cracks in the authoritative chronicles of the contact zone / Laura Gray Rosendale -- Want to tell a true story about first-year college writing programs? / Dawn Skorczewski -- Essaying theory : testing authority in classroom practice / Ruth M. Mirtz -- Essaying as action : stories of writing in context / Ed Nagelhout.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 00010836
ISBN0472097598 (alk. paper)
ISBN0472067591 (pbk. : alk. paper)