INDUCTIVE ORDER

Explaining how such higher order thinking skills as induction are the foundation of all writing, Writing is Dialogue: Teaching Students to Think (and Write) Like Writers explains how to teach writing "backwards," moving toward a focal point only after first gathering a wide range of materials, including quotes, anecdotes, descriptive detail, and facts. In addition to more traditional forms of research (book-, newspaper-, or Internet-derived), the book details how students can gather materials via personal remembrance, on-site observation, interview, and field experiences to flesh out their discussion and perspective. Subsequent chapters show how students can utilize a variety of structures to organize their material, and a discussion of rhetorical styles illustrates how alternative approaches to teaching grammar can improve diction and sentence structure.