Problem-solving strategies for writing in college and community

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Title:

Author:

Flower, Linda.

ISBN:

9780155054967

Personal Author:

Flower, Linda.

Publication Information:

Fort Worth, TX : Harcourt Brace College Publishers, c1998.

Physical Description:

xv, 477 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Strategies for writing: problem solving in academic discourse -- Portrait of writers in action -- Understanding your own writing process -- Case study: a personal profile -- Planning and learning -- Making plans -- Generating ideas -- Organizing ideas -- Analyzing a problem and building a thesis -- Designing for a reader -- Writing reader-based prose -- Revising for purpose and editing for style -- Editing for a clear organization --

Two case studies: research writing -- Community writing: problem solving in civic discourse -- Out of the classroom and into the community -- Observation, reflection, and conversation -- Community writing projects -- Dialogue and inquiry -- Community problem-solving dialogues.

Subject Term:

Report writing -- Problems, exercises, etc.

English language -- Rhetoric -- Problems, exercises, etc.

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Summary

Combining the problem solving strategies for writing with a focus on writing for the community, this text reflects late-1990s thinking on writing as a social/cognitive process. The strategy-focus transfers well from college writing to community writing. The author draws on her years of work as founder of Pittsburgh's inner city Community Literacy Center and teacher of CMU's community outreach course in literacy. The text is organized around the three distinctive types of writing most often used in outreach courses: reflection about community experience; publicity texts about and for use by agencies; and sustained inquiry into issues.