Writing-Based Teaching: Essential Practices and Enduring Questions - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438429061 ISBN 13: 9781438429069

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2009

Synopsis

Offers candid, first-hand accounts of what it is like to make writing central to teaching in secondary schools and colleges.

Written by the team at Bard College's Institute for Writing and Thinking, this book is designed to provide practical guidance regarding the challenges and potential of writing-based teaching, and suggestions for how to adapt the practices to particular classroom situations. The contributors share candid, first-hand accounts of what it is like to make writing central to teaching in secondary schools and colleges. As teachers of literature, composition, poetry, mathematics, anthropology, and education, they offer philosophical and theoretical reflections, practical guidance, and personal stories about how to help students become better, more-fluent writers, close readers, and reflective thinkers. This book will be of interest to writing center directors, for what it says about how to do collaborative learning and revision and seeing writing as a way to build community, and to writing teachers for how it demystifies freewriting, focused freewriting, and dialectical notebooks.

About this title

About the Author

At Bard College's Institute for Writing and Thinking, Teresa Vilardi is Director, and Mary Chang is former Associate Director.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1438429061
• ISBN 13: 9781438429069
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Teresa Vilardi
• Number of pages: 220
• Editor: Mary Chang