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)

Sorcinelli, Mary Deane

ISBN 10: 0787998591 / ISBN 13: 9780787998592

Published by Jossey-Bass, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 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)
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787998591
• ISBN 13: 9780787998592
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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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 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.