Active Voice : A Writing Program Across the Curriculum
by Moffett, JamesEdition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1992-04-20
Publisher(s): Heinemann
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Summary
From monologues and autobiography to narratives and essay, Moffett discusses particular compositional issues arising from each type of writing and provides innovative ways of treating them.
Author Biography
JAMES MOFFETT is the author of Teaching the Universe of Discourse, Coming on Center: Essays in English Education (Boynton/Cook), Storm in the Mountains: A Case Study of Censorship, Conflict, and Consciousness, and senior editor with Betty Jane Wagner of Student-centered Language Arts, K-12 (Boynton/Cook). He is the editor of Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories (with Kenneth McElheny), Points of Departure: An Anthology of Nonfiction, and co-editor of Active Voices: A Writer's Reader, I-IV (Boynton/Cook). The recipient of a Carnegie Corporation Grant and a Distinguished Author Award (1982) from the California Association of Teachers of English, Mr. Moffett has taught at Phillips Exeter Academy and served on the faculties of Harvard, UC/Berkeley, San Diego State, and Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English.
Table of Contents
| Preface<BR> | |
| Explanation of the Program. Background. General Description of the Program. Sequence. Classroom Processes: Pre-Writing, Mid-Writing, Post-Writing<BR> | |
| Assignments. Group One: Revising Inner Speech. Stream of Consciousness; Spontaneous Sensory Monologue. Composed Observation; Spontaneous Memory Monologue; Composed Memory; Spontaneous Reflection Monologue; Composed Reflection. Group Two: Dialogues and Monologues. Duologue; Exterior Monologue; Interior Monologue; One-Act Play; Dialogue of Ideas; Dialogue Converted to Essay. Group Three: Narrative into Essay. Correspondence; Diary; Diary Summary; Autobiography: Incident; Autobiography: Phase; Memoir: Human Subject; Memoir: Nature; Reporter-At-Large; Learning Other Subjects; Biography: Phase; Chronicle; Parable; Fable; Proverb and Saying; Directions; Narrative Illustrating a Generality; Thematic Collection of Incidents; Generalizations Supported by Instances; Research<BR> | |
| Theory<BR> | |
| Additional Poems<BR> | |
| Collateral Reading for Students<BR> | |
| Collateral Reading for Teachers<BR> | |
| Bridges: From Personal Writing to the Formal Essay<BR> | |
| I, You and It. |
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