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Physical Eloquence and the Biology of Writing
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Physical Eloquence and the Biology of Writing Hardcover - 1990

by Robert S. Ochsner


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As a statement about literacy, this book recommends an approach to teaching writing that stresses the neurological foundations of written English, mastered almost like a foreign language. "Physical eloquence" refers to neurological processes of hand, eye, and ear that every writer must control in order to generate and simultaneously to interpret a written text. "Biology of writing" refers to innate or otherwise untaught abilities that all people have for acquiring prose and which are not enhanced by formal learning. Ochsner promotes a realistic writing curriculum that stresses subconscious processes in the biology of the writing process rather than planned, rehearsed, and formally practiced activities for learning to write. He concludes that successful literacy instruction depends on a teacher's willingness to take into account the supremacy of popular culture and the ascendancy of its spoken idiom.

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  • Title Physical Eloquence and the Biology of Writing
  • Author Robert S. Ochsner
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 223
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press, Albany, NY
  • Date 1990
  • ISBN 9780791403136 / 0791403130
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 89-38062
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808.042

About the author

Robert S. Ochsner is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

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