Personally Speaking: Experience as Evidence in Academic Discourse

Author:   Candace Spigelman
Publisher:   Southern Illinois University Press
Edition:   Third Edition
ISBN:  

9780809325894


Pages:   160
Publication Date:   31 October 2004
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Our Price $160.43 Quantity:  
Add to Cart

Share |

Personally Speaking: Experience as Evidence in Academic Discourse


Add your own review!

Overview

Responding to contemporary discussion about using personal accounts in academic writing, Personally Speaking: Experience as Evidence in Academic Discourse draws on classical and current rhetorical theory, feminist theory, and relevant examples from both published writers and first-year writing students to illustrate the advantages of blending experiential and academic perspectives. Candace Spigelman examines how merging personal and scholarly worldviews produces useful contradictions and contributes to a more a complex understanding in academic writing. This rhetorical move allows for greater insights than the reading or writing of experiential or academic modes separately does. Personally Speaking foregrounds the semi-fictitious nature of personal stories and the rhetorical possibilities of evidence as Spigelman provides strategies for writing instructors who want to teach personal academic argument while supplying practical mechanisms for evaluating experiential claims. The volume seeks to complicate and intensify disciplinary debates about how compositionists should write for publication and what kinds of writing should be taught to composition students. Spigelman not only supplies evidence as to why the personal can count as evidence but also relates how to use it effectively by including student samples that reflect particular features of personal writing. Finally, she lays the groundwork to move narrative from its current site as confessional writing to the domain of academic discourse.

Full Product Details

Author:   Candace Spigelman
Publisher:   Southern Illinois University Press
Imprint:   Southern Illinois University Press
Edition:   Third Edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.358kg
ISBN:  

9780809325894


ISBN 10:   0809325896
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   31 October 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

Reviews

This is a remarkable work. Personally Speaking is a carefully researched, thoughtful, and persuasive argument for the use of the personal in academic argument. Spigelman s commitment to bringing students writing and experiences into the conversation makes the book much richer and more convincing. Bruce Ballenger, Boise State University This is a remarkable work. Personally Speaking is a carefully researched, thoughtful, and persuasive argument for the use of the personal in academic argument. Spigelman's commitment to bringing students' writing and experiences into the conversation makes the book much richer and more convincing. --Bruce Ballenger, Boise State University This is a remarkable work. Personally Speaking is a carefully researched, thoughtful, and persuasive argument for the use of the personal in academic argument. Spigelman's commitment to bringing students' writing and experiences into the conversation makes the book much richer and more convincing. --Bruce Ballenger, Boise State University 0;This is a remarkable work. Personally Speaking is a carefully researched, thoughtful, and persuasive argument for the use of the personal in academic argument. Spigelman7;s commitment to bringing students7; writing and experiences into the conversation makes the book much richer and more convincing.1; 2;Bruce Ballenger, Boise State University This is a remarkable work. Personally Speaking is a carefully researched, thoughtful, and persuasive argument for the use of the personal in academic argument.& nbsp; Spigelman ' s commitment to bringing students ' writing and experiences into the conversation makes the book much richer and more convincing. -- Bruce Ballenger, Boise State University


This is a remarkable work. Personally Speaking is a carefully researched, thoughtful, and persuasive argument for the use of the personal in academic argument. Spigelman's commitment to bringing students' writing and experiences into the conversation makes the book much richer and more convincing. --Bruce Ballenger, Boise State University


This is a remarkable work. Personally Speaking is a carefully researched, thoughtful, and persuasive argument for the use of the personal in academic argument. Spigelman s commitment to bringing students writing and experiences into the conversation makes the book much richer and more convincing. Bruce Ballenger, Boise State University


Author Information

"Candace Spigelman is an associate professor at Penn State University, Berks-Lehigh Valley College, where she serves as the co-coordinator of Professional Writing. She is the author of Across Property Lines: Textual Ownership in Writing Groups and the recipient of the 2002 Richard Ohmann Award for her article, """"Argument and Evidence in the Case of the Personal,"""" in College English."

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions
Latest Reading Guide

Aorrng

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List