Facts, Artifacts, and Counterfacts: Theory and Method for a Reading and Writing Course

by David Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky

Book Overview

This is a book about reading, writing, and teaching and the ways each can be imagined as composition. The authors bring together eight years of teaching and research connected with the integrated basic reading and writing course developed at the University of Pittsburgh. The approach offered here--widely discussed in professional journals--has been tested at several universities, as well as at the high school level.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0867091355
• ISBN13: 9780867091359
• Release Date: April 1986
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

A classic design for an ambitious college writing course.

Bartholomae and Petrosky and their collaborators show in helpful detail the theory and practice of teaching college writing to underprepared students.