The Territory of Language: Linguistics, Stylistics, and the Teaching of Composition

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface xi
• Mapping the Territory 1
• Grammar in American College Composition: An Historical Overview 3
• Teaching Style 23
• Brain, Rhetoric, and Style 34
• Released into Language: Errors, Expectations, and the Legacy of Mina Shaughnessy 65
• Knowledge, Acknowledgment, and Writing Across the Curriculum: Toward an Educated Community1 89
• Exploring the Language 101
• Getting Started 103
• Topoi and Form in Composition1 114
• The Problem of Topic in Texts 123
• The Effects of Intensive Sentence Combining on the Writing Ability of College Freshmen 142
• Syntactic Complexity and Writing Quality 154
• Linguistics and Error Analysis: on Agency 165
• Non-Linguistic Linguistics and the Teaching of Style 174
• Composition Via Stylistics 192
• Style Through Control: the Pleasures of the Beginning Writer 204
• Language Studies and Composing Processes 213
• Teaching the Connections 225
• States of Mind, Acts of Mind, Forms of Discourse: Toward a Provisional Pragmatic Framework 238
• The Process of Creative Discovery: Theory, Research, and Implications for Teaching 251
• Alternatives to Mad-Hatterism 269
• Composition in the Mimetic Mode: Imitatio and Exercitatio 284
• The Relation of the Whole to the Part in Interpretation Theory and in the Composing Process 292
• Theme in Fictional Literature: A Way into Complexity 313
• The Return of Eloquence: Richard Lanham and the Teaching of Writing 324
• Toward Real Philosophic Laboratories 330
• Writing Across the Curriculum: A Bibliographic Essay 340
• Notes 355
• Notes on Contributors 385

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