Writing to Learn: Strategies for Assigning and Responding to Writing Across the Disciplines: New Directions for Teaching and Learning (J-B TL Single Issue Teaching and Learning) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787998591 ISBN 13: 9780787998592

Publisher: John Wiley &Sons, 1997

Synopsis

This volume provides instructors who teach writing with an array of strategies and philosophies about the way writing is learned, both in the context of a discipline and as an independent skill. Focusing primarily on the best ways to give feedback about written work, the authors describe a host of alternatives that have a solid foundation in research. This is the 69th issue of the journal New Directions for Teaching and Learning.

About this title

About the Author

MARY DEANE SORCINELLI is associate provost for faculty development and director of the Center for Teaching at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

PETER ELBOW is professor of English and director of the writing program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

From the Back Cover

This volume provides instructors who teach writing with an array of strategies and philosophies about the way writing is learned, both in the context of a discipline and as an independent skill. Focusing primarily on the best ways to give feedback about written work, the authors describe a host of alternatives that have a solid foundation in research. This is the 69th issue of the journal New Directions for Teaching and Learning. For more information on the series, please see the Journals and Periodicals page.

From the Inside Flap

This volume provides instructors who teach writing with an array of strategies and philosophies about the way writing is learned, both in the context of a discipline and as an indepAndent skill. Focusing primarily on the best ways to give feedback about written work, the authors describe a host of alternatives that have a solid foundation in research. This is the 69th issue of the journal New Directions for Teaching and Learning. For more information on the series, please see the Journals and Periodicals page.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley &Sons
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787998591
• ISBN 13: 9780787998592
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168
• Editor: Sorcinelli Mary Deane