Preface
Living in Style
Part One: THE STUDY OF ERROR
The Study of Error
Released into Language: Errors, Expectations, and the Legacy of Mina Shaughnessy
Inventing the University
Wanderings: Misreadings, Miswritings, Misunderstandings
Writing on the Margins: The Concept of Literacy in Higher Education
Telling Secrets: Student Readers and Disciplinary Authorities, with Carolyn C. Ball and Laura Dice
Postscript: The Study of Error
Part Two: TEACHING COMPOSITION
Teaching Basic Writing: An Alternative to Basic Skills
Writing Assignments: Where Writing Begins
Against the Grain
Wistful and Admiring: The Rhetoric of Combination
The Reading of Reading: I. A. Richards and M. J. Adler
Producing Adult Readers: 1930–50
The Argument of Reading
Stop Making Sense: An Interview with David Bartholomae
Introduction: Ways of Reading, with Anthony Petrosky
Postscript: Teaching Composition
Part Three: THE PROFESSION
Freshman English, Composition, and CCCC
The Tidy House: Basic Writing in the American Curriculum
What Is Composition and (If You Know What That Is) Why Do We Teach It?
Composition, 1900–2000
Literacy and Departments of Language and Literature
Reading and Writing in the Academy: A Conversation with David Bartholomae
Postscript: The Profession
Index