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Bite the Writenausauros! A Small Guide to Big Writing

Bite the Writenausauros! A Small Guide to Big Writing

Author(s): Martha L. Henning

Edition: 1

Copyright: 2015

Pages: 180

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ISBN 9781465287359

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Bite the Writenausauros! A Small Guide to Big Writing challenges the historically prevalent approach to language that assumes an overwhelming emphasis on mechanics.  Instead, students approach language through the vision of Dr. Gertrude Buck (1900) – that language evolves through the human desire to communicate “organically” and “botanically.”  Students encounter writing beyond product-oriented “correctness” – learning, instead, to “nourish” their ideas and “grow” their writing through Cicero’s steps of Invention, Arrangement, Style, Memory, and Delivery.  Avoiding “education-speak,” this text offers student accessible information and language strategies to empower students’ writing and to navigate our current culture through psycho-linguistic self-defense.  

Martha L. Henning’s Bite the Writenausauros! A Small Guide to Big Writing features:

  • a much needed counter punch to the sense that life, love, and language should be the work of “rude mechanicals.” 
  • student accessible concepts and strategies for developing thoughts and writing --  organically.
  • step-by-step explanations that help students engage in the stages of the writing process.
  • writing exercises designed to encourage participation, discussion, and retention.
  • pointers for communicating with strength, clarity, and grace to empower student writing.
  • a bit of good humor.
Martha L. Henning
Dr. Martha L. Henning, author of Classical Rhetoric Now! Hot Tips for Writers, has a somewhat checkered past.  She was raised in Monterey, CA, a principal’s nerd daughter who rode her bike down to play in the Ferris-wheel-like abandoned machinery of Cannery Row (sheet-metal memories), ushered at Monterey Jazz and Pop Festivals (saw Dylan booed off Baez’s stage), and rose from camper to counselor to director of the summer camp in Big Sur.  At Stanford, as part of the April Third Movement, she questioned the chemical and biological warfare research done at Stanford Research Institute and so got to attend UC Santa Cruz as it opened.  Surviving the political trauma of Stanford, she got an MA, a teaching certificate, and went to the woods of Kentucky (think Wendell Berry) to raise twins (and just about everything else) in a log cabin.  Emerging from the woods more than a decade later, she found herself in a PhD program in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Louisville. Still knitting and addicted to snowboarding, she fled back to the west coast, where she (thank stars) landed a full-time position at Portland Community College. Then she wrote this book.   

Bite the Writenausauros! A Small Guide to Big Writing challenges the historically prevalent approach to language that assumes an overwhelming emphasis on mechanics.  Instead, students approach language through the vision of Dr. Gertrude Buck (1900) – that language evolves through the human desire to communicate “organically” and “botanically.”  Students encounter writing beyond product-oriented “correctness” – learning, instead, to “nourish” their ideas and “grow” their writing through Cicero’s steps of Invention, Arrangement, Style, Memory, and Delivery.  Avoiding “education-speak,” this text offers student accessible information and language strategies to empower students’ writing and to navigate our current culture through psycho-linguistic self-defense.  

Martha L. Henning’s Bite the Writenausauros! A Small Guide to Big Writing features:

  • a much needed counter punch to the sense that life, love, and language should be the work of “rude mechanicals.” 
  • student accessible concepts and strategies for developing thoughts and writing --  organically.
  • step-by-step explanations that help students engage in the stages of the writing process.
  • writing exercises designed to encourage participation, discussion, and retention.
  • pointers for communicating with strength, clarity, and grace to empower student writing.
  • a bit of good humor.

Martha L. Henning
Martha L. Henning
Dr. Martha L. Henning, author of Classical Rhetoric Now! Hot Tips for Writers, has a somewhat checkered past.  She was raised in Monterey, CA, a principal’s nerd daughter who rode her bike down to play in the Ferris-wheel-like abandoned machinery of Cannery Row (sheet-metal memories), ushered at Monterey Jazz and Pop Festivals (saw Dylan booed off Baez’s stage), and rose from camper to counselor to director of the summer camp in Big Sur.  At Stanford, as part of the April Third Movement, she questioned the chemical and biological warfare research done at Stanford Research Institute and so got to attend UC Santa Cruz as it opened.  Surviving the political trauma of Stanford, she got an MA, a teaching certificate, and went to the woods of Kentucky (think Wendell Berry) to raise twins (and just about everything else) in a log cabin.  Emerging from the woods more than a decade later, she found herself in a PhD program in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Louisville. Still knitting and addicted to snowboarding, she fled back to the west coast, where she (thank stars) landed a full-time position at Portland Community College. Then she wrote this book.