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Author Brooke, Robert, 1958-

Title Audience expectations and teacher demands / Robert Brooke and John Hendricks ; with a foreword by Victor Villanueva, Jr
Published Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1989

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 121 pages)
Series Studies in writing & rhetoric
Studies in writing & rhetoric.
Contents Cover; Studies in Writing & Rhetoric; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Victor Villanueva, Jr.; Introduction; 1. Theoretical and Methodological Background; 2. The Course; 3. Conclusions and Implications; Appendix 1. Transcript of Interview with Small Group One; Appendix 2. Full Class Interview; Works Cited; Author Biographies; Back Cover
Summary The audience-the community of readers who will use the texts a writer produces-must be an important influence on the writer for his or her work to be effective. Robert Brooke and John Hendricks examine the difficult task of teaching ""writing for an audience"" in a classroom where students know that the teacher, not the addressed audience, assigns the grade. The authors describe in detail a particular writing class, taught by Brooke and observed by Hendricks, that attempted to teach writing for an audience. By combining the experiences from their study with student reactions to the class, t
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-121)
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Subject English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
Report writing -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Authors and readers.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
Authors and readers
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching
Report writing -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Form Electronic book
Author Hendricks, John, 1953-
Conference on College Composition and Communication (U.S.)
ISBN 9780809390793
0809390795