| Comp Tales serves two aims--to collect good stories about teaching post-secondary composition, and to offer the kind of view and understanding of this profession that only oral anecdotes can provide. This text is a collection of the stories that college writing teachers tell and retell, stories that are actually told in the classroom, in the halls, over the tutor's table, in committee rooms, on street corners, over the kitchen table, etc. The book also contains reflections about the tales by the storytellers, and serious discussion about the role of story-telling in composition by the editors. |
Contributors vii Foreword ix Min-Zhan Lu Richard H. Haswell Acknowledgements xii Introduction to the Tales 1(4) Richard H. Haswell The Tales Entering into Story 5(6) Beginnings 11(16) Colleagues 27(12) Classrooms 39(22) The Writing 61(14) The Student 75(20) The Public 95(18) Professionalism 113(16) Imagoes 129(10) Careers 139(20) Exiting the Story 159(70) Taking In Comp Tales 183(12) Richard H. Haswell Tracking Comp Tales 195(32) Min-Zhan Lu Call for Submissions 227(2) Bibliography of Oral Tale and Composition 229(4) Index of Topics in the Tales 233(4) Works Cited 237
