Active Voices: The Language of College and Composition

Jeffrey Klausman

Active Voices is written for today’s students, briefly presenting important concepts about functioning in the academy and the composition classroom. By articulating and clarifying the specialized terminologies, processes, goals, and structures that guide a college education, students are invited into a world that can often be mysterious and frustrating. As David Bartholomae showed us years ago, students with little prior experience may end up inventing a university that does not match up with reality. Active Voices seeks to provide students the agency associated with that knowledge, preparing them to actively participate in their writing courses and beyond. And Active Voices is written for today’s instructors, who are knowledgeable and innovative in the ways they deliver their writing instruction. New chapter: What AI in the Academy May Mean

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Table of Contents for Active Voices: The Language of College and Composition

  • Front Matter
  • Part I: Engaging the Language of the Academy
  • Part II: Engaging the Language of Writing
  • Part III: Engaging Writing as a Process
  • Part IV: Engaging Shapes of Writing in the Academy
  • Part V: Engaging Research in the Academy
  • Part VI: Engaging Writing in the Disciplines
  • Instructor's Manual

Key features

  • Action Points prompt student application of concepts via in-class activities, fieldwork, or research
  • Active Voices shares real world stories of students inspired to enact positive change
  • Access Points encourage students to reflect on and activate their prior knowledge in new academic contexts