Local Knowledges Local Practices: Writing In The Disciplines At Cornell (Composition, Literacy, and Culture)

Monroe, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 0822941961 / ISBN 13: 9780822941965

Published by University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003

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Title: Local Knowledges Local Practices: Writing In...

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

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Synopsis:

Local Knowledges, Local Practices provides an overview of Cornell's rich history and distinguished achievements in training students to write well. Including the views of professors representing a variety of disciplines - from animal science to political science, anthropology to philosophy, romance studies to neurobiology - this collection will serve as a resource for anyone interested in broadly conceived, discipline-specific writing instruction.

Review:

"Teachers have much to learn from this book about writing in other fields and what their first-year students can expect to be asked to do later in their education. Though focusing on writing programs and instruction, Local Knowledges, Local Practices offers a rare glimpse of a range of faculty reflecting on their practices as teachers (and learners)."

Cornell University has stood at the forefront of writing instruction, at least since the publication of William Strunk and E. B. White's classic, The Elements of Style, in 1918. For the past thirty years Cornell has been the site of a remarkably sustained and successful interdisciplinary approach to writing across the curriculum--a program that now coordinates nearly tow hundred courses: each semester sponsored by over thirty different departments.