Dramatizing Writing: Reincorporating Delivery in the Classroom

by Virginia Skinner-Linnenberg and David Skinner

Although speech departments have "owned" delivery for the last 100 years, those who teach writing, especially English departments, can gain a great deal by reinstating delivery into their conceptions of and theories about writing. Thus, in the author's vision of "dramatizing writing" in the composition classroom, delivery can have an impact on all the composing steps, from invention to final draft. The goals of this text are to redefine delivery...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805827900
• ISBN13: 9780805827903
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"

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An effective approach to improved writing instruction

The author's claim here is that delivery, or verbalizing text, has been wrongfully excluded from writing instruction in specific, English education in general. She proposes to explain its significance and outline the benefits of reincorporating it into the curriculum. "Through performance, students physically share their concepts with their peers", she says, and "speech requires that the orator consider others, their uniqueness and variety, in the communication act". This is sound theory and an effective bridge to creating the authentic audiences that good writing (as defined by Moffett and Smith) requires.