I-Search Resource by Holt, Rinehart and Winston for the Writing Workshop

A excellent chapter about writing an I-Search paper by Holt, Rinehart and Winston for the Writing Workshop, was derived from Ken Macrorie’s book, The I-Search Paper: Revised Edition of Searching Writing Ken Macrorie . You can download a copy by clicking here. He served as editor of College Composition and Communication, has taught at Michigan State, San Francisco State, and Western Michigan universities, and for thirteen summers was an instructor at the Bread Loaf School of English. A Tribute to Ken Macrorie, 1918-2009. It is with profound sadness that we share with you news of Ken Macrorie’s death. Ken’s association with Heinemann-Boynton/Cook began more than a quarter century ago with the publication of Telling Writing, in which he asserted, “Good teaching in any field isn’t a matter of employing gimmicks and choosing from a fool encyclopedia of tricks to play on students . . . but a matter of setting up a climate friendly to learning and then challenging learners to connect their experience and ideas with those of the accepted authorities or producers.” Through this and his other ground-breaking books, Uptaught, Writing to Be Read, and The I-Search Paper, Ken touched and changed the lives of countless thousands of students-and their teachers-by revealing to them their own latent abilities to write their stories, tell their truths, find their interests, research their curiosities, and finally organize what they need and want to say into memorable prose. Ken’s deep respect for students and intolerance of educationally unsound “quick fixes” continue to inform our publishing program just as they did when his books helped first launch us as a publisher. We will be forever grateful to Ken and the significant role he played in Heinemann-Boynton/Cook’s publishing history.

Holt, Rinehart and Winston publishing has published a text with a 31 page segment devoted to Ken Macrorie‘s genre of I-Search writing. You can download it form Holt, Rinehart and Winston publishing.

You can download a copy by clicking here. You can view online here. What is an I-Search paper?
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