Teaching with Student Texts Essays Toward an Informed Practice

Name: Teaching with Student Texts Essays Toward an Informed Practice
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ISBN: 9780874217858

ISBN-10: 0874217857

ISBN-13: 9780874217858

Edition: 2010

Authors: Joseph Harris, John D. Miles, Charles Paine

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Harris, Miles and Paine ask: What happens when the texts that students write become the focus of a writing course? In response, a distinguished group of scholar/teachers suggests that teaching with students texts is not simply a classroom technique, but a way of working with writing that defines composition as a field. In "Teaching with Student Texts," authors discuss ways of revaluing student writing as intellectual work, of circulating student texts in the classroom and beyond, and of changing our classroom practices by bringing student writings to the table. Together, these essays articulate a variety of ways that student texts can take a central place in classroom work and can, in the…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Publication date: 12/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Valuing Student Texts



Re-Valuing Student Writing




Revealing Our Values: Reading Student Texts with Colleagues in High School and College




ï¿½What Do We Want in This Paper?ï¿½ Generating Criteria Collectively




Teaching the Rhetoric of Writing Assessment




Circulating Student Texts



Ethics, Student Writers, and the Use of Student Texts to Teach




Reframing Student Writing in Writing Studies Composition Classes




Students Write to Students about Writing




The Low-Stakes, Risk-Friendly Message-Board Text




Product as Process: Teaching Publication to Students




Students' Texts beyond the Classroom: Young Scholars in Writing's Challenges to College Writing Instruction




The Figure of the Student in Composition Textbooks




Changing Classroom Practices



Workshop and Seminar




What Do We Talk about When We Talk about Workshops? Charting the First Five Weeks of a First-Year Writing Course




Texts to Be Worked on and Worked with: Encouraging Students to See Their Writing as Theoretical




Writing to Learn, Reading to Teach: Student Texts in the Pedagogy Seminar




The Writer/Text Connection: Understanding Writers' Relationships to their Writing




Learning from Coauthoring: Composing Texts Together in the Composition Classroom




Inquiry, Collaboration, and Reflection in the Student (Text)-Centered Multimodal Writing Course




Workshopping to Practice Scientific Terms




Bringing Outside Texts In and Inside Texts Out




Embracing Uncertainty: The Kairos of Teaching with Student Texts



Afterword: Notes toward an Informed Practice



References


Index


Contributors