TY - GEN AU - Monroe,Jonathan TI - Local knowledges, local practices : : writing in the disciplines at Cornell / SN - 9780822959618 AV - PE 1405 L811 2006 U1 - 808/.042 PY - 2006/// CY - Pittsburgh, Pa. : PB - University of Pittsburgh Press, KW - Universidad de Cornell KW - Inglés KW - Retórica KW - Nueva York (Estado) KW - Redacción de escritos académicos. N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-292) and index; Local knowledges, local practices : an introduction / Jonathan Monroe -- TAs and the teaching of writing at Cornell : a historical perspective / Katherine Gottschalk -- Writing without friction / Keith Hjortshoj -- Finding places for writing in a research university : a director's view / Harry E. Shaw -- Writing animals / Elizabeth Oltenacu -- Exoticizing the familiar : familiarizing the exotic / Jane Fajans -- "You can make a difference" : human rights as the subject matter for a first-year writing seminar / Billie Jean Isbell -- Writing from (field) experience / Kathryn S. March -- The invisible city of color, or "I thought this was a course on writing!" / William W. Goldsmith -- Writing in cognitive science : exploring the life of the mind / Michael J. Spivey -- Freshman rhetoric and media literacy / Paul Sawyer -- Toward a community of inquiry : teaching Cornell advanced placement students / Daniel R. Schwarz -- Teaching writing about international relations / Matthew Evangelista -- Writing political science : asking a question then (actually) answering it / Mary Fainsod Katzenstein -- The politics of writing / Rose McDermott -- Translation and appropriation in foreign language and writing classrooms / John Whitman -- Writing religion at Cornell (reflections of a penitent professor) / Ross Brann -- Teaching behavioral ecology through writing / Paul W. Sherman -- Cultivating dialectical imagination / Jennifer E. Whiting -- Writing (not drawing) a blank / Marilyn Migiel -- Writing as a sociologist / Michael Macy -- Afterword : Writing writing / Jonathan Monroe N2 - This work provides an overview of Cornell's rich history and achievements in training students to write well. It should serve as a resource for anyone interested in broadly conceived, discipline-specific writing instruction ER -