Rewriting: How To Do Things With Texts - Softcover

Harris, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874216427 ISBN 13: 9780874216424

Publisher: Utah State University Press, 2006

Synopsis

"Like all writers, intellectuals need to say something new and say it well. But unlike many other writers, what intellectuals have to say is bound up with the books we are reading . . . and the ideas of the people we are talking with."

What are the moves that an academic writer makes? How does writing as an intellectual change the way we work from sources? In Rewriting, a textbook for the undergraduate classroom, Joseph Harris draws the college writing student away from static ideas of thesis, support, and structure, and toward a more mature and dynamic understanding. Harris wants college writers to think of intellectual writing as an adaptive and social activity, and he offers them a clear set of strategies—a set of moves—for participating in it.

About this title

About the Author:

Joe Harris is an English professor at the University of Delaware, where he teaches academic writing, critical reading, creative nonfiction, and digital writing. He also likes dogs, movies, and minor league baseball.

Review:

"While the book is aimed at undergraduates, [it] reads like a thoughtful primer on doing scholarly writing and, even more importantly, on forming a professional identity as a publishing scholar. . . . Harris provides the 'terms of art,' as it were, for writers to achieve that self-awareness."
—Howard Tinberg, CCC

"[O]ne of the reasons why I find the book so teachable and important is that it invites us to think more deeply than we might otherwise about what we want our writing to do and how we intend to make that happen."
—Laura Micciche, CCC

"Writing this essay in response to Rewriting has given me a better sense of the moves I, myself, make. . . . I can think of no higher praise."
—Donna Qualley, Reader, special issue on Rewriting

About this edition

• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0874216427
• ISBN 13: 9780874216424
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 150