The Power of Writing
Dartmouth ’66 in the Twenty-First Century
Distributed for Dartmouth College Press
160 pages
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5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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Contents
Foreword: The Power of Writing—Michael Mastanduno • Introduction: Updating Dartmouth—Joseph Harris • PART 1. SCIENCES • Writing about Math for the Perplexed and the Traumatized—Steven Strogatz • Notes toward a Theory of Writing for the Public—Kathleen Blake Yancey • Writing in the Sciences—Daniel Rockmore • PART 2. SOCIAL SCIENCES • The Good, Hard Work of Writing Well—David McCullough • Growing Writers: A Response to David McCullough—Keith Gilyard • History as a Laboratory for the Good, Hard Work of Writing Well—Leslie Butler • PART 3. INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES • Writing and States of Emergency—Hortense J. Spillers • Her Prophetic Voice: A Response to Hortense Spillers— Patricia Bizzell • Being the Emergency: A Response to Hortense Spillers— Melanie Benson Taylor • PART 4. HUMANITIES • Listening to Write—Katherine Bergeron • Writing as a Performance of Language, Listening as an Act of Empathy—Maria Jerskey • The Power of Sound and Sense—Ioana Chitoran • Editors and Contributors • Index
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