Sharing and Responding - Softcover

Peter Elbow

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070196958 ISBN 13: 9780070196957

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, 1994

Synopsis

To help foster a productive environment for group work, Elbow and Belanoff offer students advice on talking with one another about their writing in an 80-page SHARING AND RESPONDING GUIDE. The activities in this guide move from nonjudgmental kinds of responding to full criticism to help build students' confidence and trust. The guide contains two sample papers, which are used to illustrate different kinds of feedback. It concludes with a summary of ways of responding and suggestions on how and when they're most useful.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Elbow is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Before writing A Community of Writers, he wrote two other books about writing: Writing Without Teachers and Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process. He is author of a book of essays about learning and teaching: Embracing Contraries. He also wrote Oppositions in Chaucer, as well as numerous essays about writing and teaching. His most recent book, What Is English? explores current issues in the profession of English. He has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Franconia College, Evergreen State College, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook—where for five years he directed the Writing Program. He served for four years on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association and is now a member of the Executive Committee of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. He has given talks and workshops at many colleges and university. He attended Williams College and Harvard University and has an M.A. from Exeter College, Oxford University, and a Ph.D. from Brandeis University.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070196958
• ISBN 13: 9780070196957
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 60