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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