A Guide to Creating Student-Staffed Writing Centers, Grades 6-12 - Softcover

Richard Burt Kent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082047889X ISBN 13: 9780820478890

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2006

Synopsis

Writing centers are places where writers work with each other in an effort to develop ideas, discover a thesis, overcome procrastination, create an outline, or revise a draft. Ultimately, writing centers help students become more effective writers. Visit any college or university in the United States and chances are there is a writing center available to students, staff, and community members. A Guide to Creating Student-Staffed Writing Centers, Grades 6-12 is a how-to and, ultimately, a why-to book for middle school and high school educators as well as for English/ language arts teacher candidates and their methods instructors. Writing centers support students and their busy teachers while emphasizing and supporting writing across the curriculum.

About this title

About the Author

Richard Kent is the director of the Maine Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project, and an associate professor of literacy and English Education at The University of Maine. A Guide to Creating Student-Staffed Writing Centers, Grades 6-12 was named the 2006 Book of the Year of the International Writing Centers Association, an assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English. Kent co-edited Teaching the Neglected "R": Rethinking Writing Instruction in the Secondary Classroom (2007) with Thomas Newkirk. He authored Beyond Room 109: Developing Independent Study Projects (2000); Room 109: The Promise of a Portfolio Classroom (1997); Play On! (1985), a young adult novel; Entering Weld (1981), a chapbook of poetry; and Writing About Place: A Teacher's Guide (2005), a guidebook that accompanies Our Maine: The Way Life Is, a CD. A long-time athletic coach, Kent recently published Writing on the Bus: Using Athletic Team Notebooks and Journals to Advance Learning and Performance in Sports as well as a series of companion books. For further information, visit the Writing Athletes' resource website (WritingAthletes.com).  

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082047889X
• ISBN 13: 9780820478890
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172