Table Of ContentChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 First Day: A Suggested Course Description and Logistics Chapter 4 Grading: Strategies and Uses Chapter 5 The Importance of Topics, and How to Choose and Formulate Them Chapter 6 Alternate Forms of Courses: Shorter Courses and Distance Learning Chapter 7 Choosing Essays for Discussion, the Justification of Discussion, and Overcoming Difficulties Chapter 8 Class Discussion: Importance and Techniques Chapter 9 Style, Grammar, Usage Chapter 10 Conclusions and Speculations Chapter 11 Appendices
SynopsisIn Rational Irrationality, H. James Jensen presents an effective way of teaching composition that is an alternative to current teaching methods used and taught by composition teachers at many colleges, high schools, and universities. Jensen instructs teachers in classroom techniques and evaluation, goes over common problems and dangers in writing pedagogy and in classroom discussion, discusses the viability of distance learning, its drawbacks and how it might be used, and sets up models of actual courses that have proven to be successful. Based on existing workshop models and artistic principles that professional writers have used for centuries, Jensen lays out in simple form, the ways in which a course in composition can be taught., In Rational Irrationality, H. James Jensen presents an effective way of teaching composition that is an alternative to current teaching methods used and taught by composition teachers at many colleges, high schools, and universities. Based on existing workshop models and artistic principles that professional writers have used for centuries, Jensen lays out in simple form, the ways in which a course in composition can be taught.