Refiguring Prose Style: Possibilities for Writing Pedagogy - Softcover

Johnson, T.R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874216214 ISBN 13: 9780874216219

Publisher: Utah State University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Style is of vital practical interest to college writing teachers, because everyone has to teach it one way or another. Yet, for about two decades, the theoretical discussion of how to address prose style in teaching college writing has been stuck, with style standing in as a proxy for other stakes in the theory wars. A consequence of the impasse is that a theory of style itself has not been well articulated. In Refiguring Prose Style, Johnson and Pace suggest that moving the field toward a better consensus will require establishing style as a clearer subject of inquiry. Accordingly, Refiguring Prose Style takes up a comprehensive study of the subject. The hope of the essays here?focusing on historical, aesthetic, practical, and theoretical issues?is to reawaken composition studies to the possibilities of style, and, in turn, to rejuvenate a great many classrooms.

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Review

We want to move the field beyond the dichotomies that have impoverished its understanding of style.

About the Author

Author Tom Pace read at a 4th grade level at the age of 26. Today he is an avid reader and CEO of PaceButler Corporation, a multimillion dollar company with a national and international presence. The principles revealed in this book are the same principles he used to achieve his own success and significance.

Edition details

• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874216214
• ISBN 13: 9780874216219
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 326
• Editor: Pace Tom