Rewriting: How To Do Things With Texts
by Joseph Harris
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Author: Joseph HarrisEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-07-15
ISBN: 0874216427
Number of pages: 150
Publisher: Utah State University Press
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Book Review: An excellent guide to writing rigorous and lively academic or intellectual writing
Summary: 5 Stars
This book has helped me immensely in my teaching and in my own writing. I use it as a textbook for my college composition students.
Four chapters are on making "interesting use of sources" in your writing. These chapters--"Coming to Terms" (more than just summarizing), "Forwarding" (more than just agreeing with), "Countering" (more than just disagreeing) and "Taking an Approach" (more than just "applying" someone else' ideas)--show the moves for using the words and ideas of others to present and develop words and ideas of your own.
The final chapter on "Revising" gives practical, useful ideas and strategies for moving beyond a first draft. The "Afterward" lays out in brief Harris' idea of a writing course. Though somewhat positioned as "bonus" chapters, either of them alone are worth reading the book for.
The explanations of concepts throughout are clear and yet intellectually rich enough to chew on. One of the biggest strengths of this book are the very concrete examples throughout, often in the form of multi-paragraph quotations from published intellectual writing. It is much more of a "book" than a "textbook." Harris' intelligent and generous voice comes through well in the writing.
Summary of Rewriting: How To Do Things With Texts
"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.
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