The power of writing : Dartmouth '66 in the twenty-first century /

The power of writing : Dartmouth '66 in the twenty-first century /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2015]
Description:	1 online resource (157 pages
Language:	English
Subject:	Academic writing -- Study and teaching (Higher) English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher) Academic writing -- Study and teaching (Higher) English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11243027

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Other authors / contributors:	Blewett, Kelly, editor. Donahue, Christiane, editor.
ISBN:	9781611687408 1611687403 9781611687408 1611687403 9781611687620 9781611687392 1611687624 9781611687620 161168739X 9781611687392
Notes:	Includes index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Why writing matters in higher education.
Other form:	Print version: Power of writing. Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2015]

Table of Contents:

Foreword: The Power of Writing
Introduction: Updating Dartmouth
Part 1. Sciences
Writing about Math for the Perplexed and the Traumatized
Notes toward a Theory of Writing for the Public
Writing in the Sciences
Part 2. Social Sciences
The Good, Hard Work of Writing Well
Growing Writers: A Response to David McCullough
History as a Laboratory for the Good, Hard Work of Writing Well
Part 3. Interdisciplinary Studies
Writing and States of Emergency
Her Prophetic Voice: A Response to Hortense Spillers
Being the Emergency: A Response to Hortense Spillers
Part 4. Humanities
Listening to Write
Writing as a Performance of Language, Listening as an Act of Empathy
The Power of Sound and Sense
Editors and Contributors
Index