Research Catalog

Title

Voice as process / Lizbeth A. Bryant ; foreword by Peter Elbow.

Author

Bryant, Lizbeth.

Publication

Portsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook, c2005.

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Description

xiii, 143 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Voice as Process looks at how student writers use the voices of home and community to develop an academic voice. Through a thorough textual analysis of student portfolios, copious interviews, and ethnographic research, Lizbeth Bryant identifies the activities that writers perform as they manipulate the voices they bring to class, and those they encounter there, into a web of constructed voices that can be adjusted to meet the needs of any writing situation. Only then, after research and reflection on student choices, does Bryant return to address the instructor's role in the process. She argues for a new view of voice - as a process of construction - and, drawing on composition and pedagogical theory, explores the implications of this view."--Jacket.

Subject

• College prose > Evaluation
• English language > Psychological aspects
• Report writing > Psychological aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-138) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : why voice matters -- Disruptive "sexual" voices in English 101 -- Jason's voices -- Leah's story -- Studying our voices -- Voice as process -- A pedagogy of voice as process.

ISBN

0867095776 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004020890

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Harvard Library