Writing to Learn by William Zinsser

Writing to Learn by William Zinsser

Incarcerated bodies, liberated minds: a narrative of literacy education behind bars. Words No Bars Can Hold provides a rare glimpse into literacy learning under the most dehumanizing conditions. Deborah Appleman chronicles her work teaching college-level classes at a high-security prison for men, most of whom are serving life sentences. Through narrative, poetry, memoir, and fiction, the students in Appleman's classes attempt to write themselves back into a society that has erased their lived histories. The students' work, through which they probe and develop their identities as readers and writers, illuminates the transformative power of literacy. Appleman argues for the importance of educating the incarcerated, and explores ways to interrupt the increasingly common journey from urban schools to our nation's prisons. From the sobering endpoint of what scholars have called the school to prison pipeline, she draws insight from the narratives and experiences of those who have traveled it.

William Zinsser is author of the best-selling On Writing Well and fifteen other books. He has been a writer, columnist, critic, and editor at leading newspapers and magazines as well as general editor of the Book-of-the-Month Club. During the 1970s he was master of Branford College at Yale University, where he taught nonfiction writing and where he first met Willie Ruff. On the faculty of the New School University in New York City, Mr. Zinsser is a part-time jazz pianist and a student of Dwike Mitchell.

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ISBN 13	9780060915766
ISBN 10	0060915765
Title	Writing to Learn
Author	William Zinsser
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Longman
Year published	1989-06-16
Number of pages	272
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