Joseph Harris is a professor of English at the University of Delaware, where he teaches composition, creative nonfiction, and digital writing. Previously, he directed the first-year writing programs at the University of Pittsburgh and Duke University. A former editor of CCC, he is also the author of Teaching with Student Texts and A Teaching Subject.
Praise for the first edition:
“In this wonderful little book, Joe Harris models the advice he
gives. Rewriting is inviting, thoughtful, and packed with
useful wisdom.”
—Mike Rose, author of An Open Language
“Joseph Harris’s Rewriting has been taken
up enthusiastically by thousands of teachers in the
National Writing Project. Their students, from grades seven
through twelve, have found Harris’s discussions of using
other people’s texts in their writing to be
accessible, useful, and immediately applicable to their
writing. NWP’s large programs that focus on academic writing
have put Rewriting at the center of their work.”
—Tom Fox, National Writing Project
“While the book is aimed at undergraduates, [it] reads like a
thoughtful primer on doing scholarly writing and, even more
importantly, on forming a professional identity as a
publishing scholar. . . . Harris provides the ‘terms of art,’
as it were, for writers to achieve that self-awareness."
—Howard Tinberg, College Composition and
Communication
“I like this book. It has a pulse. And it fills a gap between
bulky readers/rhetorics and dutiful style handbooks.”
—Tom Deans, University of Connecticut
“Rewriting manages to model as it teaches. In striking
this balance it’s an ideal book for graduate students
searching for foothold in their first classrooms, whether they
find themselves in the role of new teacher or struggling
writer, or both.”
—Jessica Restaino, author of First Semester: Graduate
Students, Teaching Writing, and the Challenge of Middle
Ground
“Writing this essay in response to Rewriting has given me a
better sense of the moves I, myself, make. . . . I can think
of no higher praise.”
—Donna Qualley, Reader, special issue
on Rewriting
“[O]ne of the reasons why I find the book so teachable and
important is that it invites us to think more deeply than we
might otherwise about what we want our writing to do and
how we intend to make that happen.”
—Laura Micciche, College Composition and
Communication
“Harris models the working intellectual—not apologetic about
his taste for books and thinking, happy to admit that these
things are not so much glamorous or righteous
as satisfying, hard, and do-able by anyone with an
ambition to be interested and interesting.”
—Eli Goldblatt, Temple University
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