Download or read book The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing written by Chitralekha Duttagupta and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by members of the Conference on Basic Writing under the general editorship of Chitralekha Duttagupta and Robert J. Miller, this annotated list of books, articles, and periodicals was selected specifically for their value to teachers of basic writing.
Download or read book The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing written by Linda Adler-Kassner and published by Bedford/St. Martin's. This book was released on 2004-12-17 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by members of the Conference on Basic Writing under the general editorship of Linda Adler-Kassner and Gregory R. Glau, this annotated list of books, articles, and periodicals was selected specifically for their value to teachers of basic writing.
Download or read book The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing written by Linda Adler-Kassner and published by Bedford/st Martins. This book was released on 2002 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing is a new resource, compiled by members of the Conference on Basic Writing under the general editorship of Linda Adler-Kassner and Gregory R. Glau. The text provides an annotated list of books, articles, and periodicals selected specifically for their value to teachers of basic writing.
Download or read book The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing written by Nedra Reynolds and published by Bedford/St. Martin's. This book was released on 2011-10-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first edition of The Bedford Bibliography published in 1984, the field of composition has grown and changed in ways no one could have imagined. The seventh edition of this essential, highly praised resource has been updated to reflect current research and expanding specializations in composition and rhetoric – such as digital writing and visual rhetoric and business and technical communication – and includes an annotated list of over 860 articles, periodicals, and online resources. An introductory section also provides a brief historical overview of these fields.
Download or read book Basic Writing written by George Otte and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Framed by historic developments—from the Open Admissions movement of the 1960s and 1970s to the attacks on remediation that intensified in the 1990s and beyond—Basic Writing traces the arc of these large social and cultural forces as they have shaped and reshaped the field.
Download or read book Writing Program Administration written by Susan H. McLeod and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2007-03-16 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference guide provides a comprehensive review of the literature on all the issues, responsibilities, and opportunities that writing program administrators need to understand, manage, and enact, including budgets, personnel, curriculum, assessment, teacher training and supervision, and more. Writing Program Administration also provides the first comprehensive history of writing program administration in U.S. higher education. Writing Program Administration includes a helpful glossary of terms and an annotated bibliography for further reading.
Download or read book The Bedford Handbook written by Diana Hacker and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What habits are common among good college writers? Good college writers are curious, engaged, reflective, and responsible. They read critically. They write with purpose. They tune into their audience. They collaborate and seek feedback. They know credible evidence makes them credible researchers. They revise. The Bedford Handbook, based on surveys with more than 1,000 first-year college students, fosters these habits and offers more support than ever before for college reading and writing. New writing guides support students as they compose in an ever-wider variety of genres, including multimodal genres. New reading support encourages students to become active readers. Retooled research advice emphasizes inquiry and helps writers cite even the trickiest digital sources confidently and responsibly. Best of all, the Handbook remains a trusted companion for students because it is accessible, comprehensive, and authoritative. Instructors benefit, too: A substantially revised Instructor’s Edition includes Nancy Sommers’s personal mentoring—more than 100 new concrete tips for teaching with the handbook. Finally, integrated digital content is easily assignable and helps students practice and apply the handbook’s lessons.
Download or read book Assessing the Teaching of Writing written by Amy E. Dayton and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although fraught with politics and other perils, teacher evaluation can contribute in important, positive ways to faculty development at both the individual and the departmental levels. Yet the logistics of creating a valid assessment are complicated. Inconsistent methods, rater bias, and overreliance on student evaluation forms have proven problematic. The essays in Assessing the Teaching of Writing demonstrate constructive ways of evaluating teacher performance, taking into consideration the immense number of variables involved. Contributors to the volume examine a range of fundamental issues, including the political context of declining state funds in education; growing public critique of the professoriate and demands for accountability resulting from federal policy initiatives like No Child Left Behind; the increasing sophistication of assessment methods and technologies; and the continuing interest in the scholarship of teaching. The first section addresses concerns and advances in assessment methodologies, and the second takes a closer look at unique individual sites and models of assessment. Chapters collectively argue for viewing teacher assessment as a rhetorical practice. Fostering new ways of thinking about teacher evaluation, Assessing the Teaching of Writing will be of great interest not only to writing program administrators but also to those concerned with faculty development and teacher assessment outside the writing program.
Download or read book The Writing Center Director s Resource Book written by Christina Murphy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Writing Center Director's Resource Book has been developed to serve as a guide to writing center professionals in carrying out their various roles, duties, and responsibilities. It is a resource for those whose jobs not only encompass a wide range of tasks but also require a broad knowledge of multiple issues. The volume provides information on the most significant areas of writing center work that writing center professionals--both new and seasoned--are likely to encounter. It is structured for use in diverse institutional settings, providing both current knowledge as well as case studies of specific settings that represent the types of challenges and possible outcomes writing center professionals may experience. This blend of theory with actual practice provides a multi-dimensional view of writing center work. In the end, this book serves not only as a resource but also as a guide to future directions for the writing center, which will continue to evolve in response to a myriad of new challenges that will lie ahead.
Download or read book The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Adult Learners written by Barbara Gleason and published by Bedford/St. Martin's. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Adult Learners provides an annotated list of over 300 articles and books addressing issues relevant to teachers of returning students, veterans, and multilingual/multiliterate students—growing sectors of the college student body. This valuable resource will help guide and inform the ways instructors think about, assess, interact with, and engage adult learners in their classrooms.
Download or read book Wiki Writing written by Matthew Barton and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-12-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When most people think of wikis, the first---and usually the only---thing that comes to mind is Wikipedia. The editors of Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom, Robert E. Cummings and Matt Barton, have assembled a collection of essays that challenges this common misconception, providing an engaging and helpful array of perspectives on the many pressing theoretical and practical issues that wikis raise. Written in an engaging and accessible manner that will appeal to specialists and novices alike, Wiki Writing draws on a wealth of practical classroom experiences with wikis to offer a series of richly detailed and concrete suggestions to help educators realize the potential of these new writing environments. Robert E. Cummings began work at Columbus State University in August 2006 as Assistant Professor of English and Director of First-Year Composition. Currently he also serves as the Writing Specialist for CSU's Quality Enhancement Plan, assisting teachers across campus in their efforts to maximize student writing in their curriculum. He recently concluded a three-year research study with the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research and continues to research in the fields of computers and writing, writing across the curriculum, writing in the disciplines, and curricular reform in higher education. Matt Barton is Assistant Professor, St. Cloud State University, Department of English-Rhetoric and Applied Writing Program. His research interests are rhetoric, new media, and computers and writing. He is the author of Dungeons and Desktops: A History of Computer Role-Playing Games and has published in the journals Text and Technology, Computers and Composition, Game Studies, and Kairos. He is currently serving as Associate Editor of Kairosnews and Managing Editor of Armchair Arcade. "Wiki Writing will quickly become the standard resource for using wikis in the classroom." ---Jim Kalmbach, Illinois State University digitalculturebooks is an imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library dedicated to publishing innovative and accessible work exploring new media and their impact on society, culture, and scholarly communication. Visit the website at www.digitalculture.org.
Download or read book Writing Across the Curriculum written by Chris M. Anson and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1993-10-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annotated bibliography is the first to trace the history of the Writing Across the Curriculum Movement (WAC) and to assess the state of scholarship and pedagogy on the subject today. Professors Anson, Schwiebert, and Williamson carefully describe 1067 important sources taken from bibliographies, books, monographs, journals, textbooks, and other documents. Their research guide reviews the history and implementation of WAC, research and theoretical studies, and the teaching of writing across the curriculum in general and in diverse fields. Author and subject indexes provide easy access to the reference materials for the use of researchers in composition, education, arts and humanities, physical, social and behavioral sciences, and business.
Download or read book Writing First with Readings written by Laurie G. Kirszner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-09-28 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing First teaches the basics of writing and grammar in the context of students' own writing. Along with a comprehensive treatment of the process of writing paragraphs and essays, it helps students develop the fundamental writing skills they need to succeed in college and beyond. By providing students with more help in the areas they most need it -- grammar, ESL, and high-stakes test taking -- the third edition of Writing First better addresses the realities of the developmental writing course.
Download or read book Bibliographic Research in Composition Studies written by Vicki Byard and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliographic Research in Composition Studies is a student-friendly guide to how knowledge is constructed and disseminated in composition studies, as well as a thorough handbook on how to conduct bibliographic research in the discipline. Student readers are taught Stephen North's taxonomy of scholarship, empirical research, and practice so that they can better contextualize the sources they read, and they learn the unique ways that some genres of publication function in composition studies. The book also leads students through the entire process of completing a bibliographic assignment.
Download or read book Axelrod Cooper s Concise Guide to Writing written by Rise B. Axelrod and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides six guided writing assignments along with readings and strategies for writing and research -- all in a brief, flexible, easy-to-use format.
Download or read book Building Writing Center Assessments That Matter written by Ellen Schendel and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No less than other divisions of the college or university, contemporary writing centers find themselves within a galaxy of competing questions and demands that relate to assessment—questions and demands that usually embed priorities from outside the purview of the writing center itself. Writing centers are used to certain kinds of assessment, both quantitative and qualitative, but are often unprepared to address larger institutional or societal issues. In Building Writing Center Assessments that Matter, Schendel and Macauley start from the kinds of assessment strengths already in place in writing centers, and they build a framework that can help writing centers satisfy local needs and put them in useful dialogue with the larger needs of their institutions, while staying rooted in writing assessment theory. The authors begin from the position that tutoring writers is already an assessment activity, and that good assessment practice (rooted in the work of Adler-Kassner, O'Neill, Moore, and Huot) already reflects the values of writing center theory and practice. They offer examples of assessments developed in local contexts, and of how assessment data built within those contexts can powerfully inform decisions and shape the futures of local writing centers. With additional contributions by Neal Lerner, Brian Huot and Nicole Caswell, and with a strong commitment to honoring on-site local needs, the volume does not advocate a one-size-fits-all answer. But, like the modeling often used in a writing consultation, examples here illustrate how important assessment principles have been applied in a range of local contexts. Ultimately, Building Writing Assessments that Matter describes a theory stance toward assessment for writing centers that honors the uniqueness of the writing center context, and examples of assessment in action that are concrete, manageable, portable, and adaptable.
Download or read book Basic Writing in America written by Nicole Pepinster Greene and published by Hampton Press (NJ). This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents educational stories that offers a dramatic portrait of basic writing in four-year colleges and universities across the country. This book describes the often hostile responses to basic writing and its students; and the low status of basic writing programs within English departments and universities.
