I thought that Gordon Harvey's piece "Presence in the Essay" (published several years ago in College English, I think) had some useful things to say about voice. It's available via JStor at http://www.jstor.org/view/00100994/ap020421/02a00020/0 Jo-Anne Andre U of C Margaret Procter wrote: > Peter Elbow is always readable, and he has written on writing plus > both voice and power. An excerpt from Writing with Power might suit > the course you mention. > > Can we retire Orwell on Politics / English Language? The odd and > self-contradictory voice there frightens and discourages many > students, though some get the point Orwell intended. > > I hope students also read each other's writing -- papers written in > response to good assignments and showing that ordinary people do have > something to say and can say it with power and voice if given a chance > and some coaching. That's surely the case in a course with such > diversity. It would be more inspirational than reading about writing. > > Margaret Procter > U of Toronto > > > [log in to unmask] wrote: > >> I've been asked to suggest some readings on 'writing and voice' >> and/or 'writing >> and power' for students to read in a course on 'skills' in our Social >> Work >> program. I don't know much about the course, but I have been working >> with >> instructors in SOWK, so far on formulating good assignments. Their >> rapidly >> expanding program has students ranging in age from 17 to 40+, and is >> very >> diverse. The writing problems are legion meaning, I gather, that only a >> minority of the students are able to submit a coherent and relatively >> well-written paper sans plagiarism. I think the course in question is >> being >> designed to encourage students to take their writing seriously and >> work at >> improving it. (I've not seen the outline, however). >> >> I am grateful for your suggestions. >> Leslie Sanders >> York U >> >> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >> To leave the list, send a SIGNOFF CASLL command to >> [log in to unmask] or, if you experience difficulties, >> write to Russ Hunt at [log in to unmask] >> >> For the list archives and information about the organization, >> its newsletter, and the annual conference, go to >> http://www.stu.ca/inkshed/ >> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >> >> > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > To leave the list, send a SIGNOFF CASLL command to > [log in to unmask] or, if you experience difficulties, > write to Russ Hunt at [log in to unmask] > > For the list archives and information about the organization, > its newsletter, and the annual conference, go to > http://www.stu.ca/inkshed/ > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To leave the list, send a SIGNOFF CASLL command to [log in to unmask] or, if you experience difficulties, write to Russ Hunt at [log in to unmask] For the list archives and information about the organization, its newsletter, and the annual conference, go to http://www.stu.ca/inkshed/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-