Overview

The Essays Only You Can Write offers a perspective on essay writing that spotlights a writer’s uniqueness. Resisting the perception that personal and academic writing are at odds with one another, it treats the impulse to write “personally” as potential fuel for a variety of writing purposes. The book encourages students to think like academics--pursuing their enthusiasms, trusting their ideas, and questioning their conclusions--by leading them through three main writing assignments: a personal essay, an essay based on texts, and a research essay. Each chapter offers exercises and strategies for various stages in the pre-writing, drafting, and revision processes. Freewriting; extensive attention to planning; devising a structure and order of ideas that both promote and reflect engagement with a topic; developing rhetorical awareness and knowledge of conventions; and an advocacy for expressive, socially-responsible writing--all are central elements of the text’s instruction. By acknowledging the emotions inherent in the writing process, many of which can muddle thinking--I don’t want anyone to see this; what if I make mistakes?; what if the writing isn’t good?; I don’t want to be critiqued; etc.--Papoulis helps beginning college writers to navigate the psychological as well as the technical roadblocks that can get in the way of their best personal and academic writing.

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Author:   Irene Papoulis
Publisher:   Broadview Press Ltd
Imprint:   Broadview Press Ltd
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9781554815760

ISBN 10:   1554815762
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   31 January 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface for StudentsPart One: Your Personal Essay Chapter 1: Starting Ideas and Fundamental Practices Chapter 2: Get to Know the Personal Essay Genre Chapter 3: Write Your Personal Essay Chapter 4: Revise, Add Texture to, and Finish Your Personal Essay Part Two: Your Essay about Text(s) Chapter 5: Reading and Writing about Texts in College Chapter 6: Move Toward Your Essay on a Text/Texts Chapter 7: Draft Your Essay About a Text Chapter 8: Revise your Essay about a text Part Three: Your Research Essay Chapter 9: Confront Your Research Essay Assignment Chapter 10: Do Your Research: Topic/Question/Sources Chapter 11: Build Your Research Essay Draft Chapter 12: Revise Your Research Essay Part Four: Mindfulness and Essay-Writing Chapter 13: Introductory Thoughts on Mindfulness Chapter 14: Using Mindfulness While Writing Part Five: Giving and Receiving Feedback in Peer Groups Chapter 15: What Is Peer Feedback, and Why Does it Make Some People Nervous? Chapter 16: The Psychology of Feedback Chapter 17: Being a Peer Responder Chapter 18: Prompts for Peer Responders

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"""The Essays Only You Can Write offers a large dose of relief and new hope to instructors of first-year writing courses. Every chapter of the book focuses on the value of each student's own thinking and each student's own experiences and language resources (rather than anything possibly producible by AI) as the essential elements for meeting every kind of writing challenge posed by the undergraduate classroom. The text will allow first-year composition classes to return to their ideal function of ushering students into a college community, where they can begin to discover themselves as legitimate members who are both learners and contributors to the enterprise of learning."" -- Sheridan Blau, Professor of Practice in the Teaching of English, Teachers College, Columbia University ""It is no secret that many students dread writing--it often feels disconnected from their interests and areas of study. The Essays Only You Can Write presents students with a vital guide to essay writing that foregrounds the important fact that 'essays of all sorts are an invaluable form of expression.' This is a text that welcomes readers into a community of writers by sharing a wealth of innovative tips and imaginative strategies while also presenting the writing process as an importantly personal domain. Irene Papoulis has written so much more than a book; The Essays Only You Can Write guides students through the various stages and myriad forms of essaying, and the voices one might don while doing so."" -- erica j. kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking ""If you're anxious about AI technologies and instead want to steer students toward more mindful, analog explorations of themselves and their worlds, this book will be your thoughtful guide. Papoulis champions the personal and research essay genres, and she offers wise and humane coaching for all stages of the writing process. By modeling a 'Journal of Noticings, ' a 'Journal of Questions, ' and strategies for mindfulness, Papoulis integrates fresh ideas with time-tested approaches to personal and research essay writing."" -- Tom Deans, University of Connecticut"

Author Information

Irene Papoulis is Principal Lecturer in the Allan K. Smith Center for Writing and Rhetoric at Trinity College, and Director of Academic Advising and Faculty Development in Trinity's Center for Academic and Experiential Advising. She is also a longtime Associate of the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College.

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