Because Writing Matters

Because Writing Matters
Author: National Writing Project
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2012-06-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1118429672

This updated edition of the best-selling book Because Writing Matters reflects the most recent research and reports on the need for teaching writing, and it includes new sections on writing and English language learners, technology, and the writing process.

Student Writing Tutors in Their Own Words

Student Writing Tutors in Their Own Words
Author: Max Orsini
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2022-06-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000607100

Student Writing Tutors in Their Own Words collects personal narratives from writing tutors around the world, providing tutors, faculty, and writing center professionals with a diverse and experience-based understanding of the writing support process. Filling a major gap in the research on writing center theory, first-year writing pedagogy, and higher education academic support resources, this book provides narrative evidence of students' own experiences with learning assistance discourse communities. It features a variety of voices that address how academic support resources such as writing centers have served as the nucleus for students' (i.e., both tutors and their clients) sense of community and self, ultimately providing a space for freedom of discourse and expression. It includes narratives from writing tutors supporting students in unconventional spaces such as prisons, tutors offering support in war-torn countries, and students in international centers facing challenges of distance learning, access, and language barriers. The essays in this collection reveal pedagogical takeaways and insights about both student and tutor collaborative experiences in writing center spaces. These essays are a valuable resource for student writing tutors and anyone involved with them, including composition instructors and scholars, writing center professionals, and any faculty or administrators involved with academic support programs.

Writing, Redefined

Writing, Redefined
Author: Shawna Coppola
Publisher:
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2019
Genre: English language
ISBN: 162531275X

"Writing, Redefined asks educators to reflect critically on the kinds of writing - and the kinds of writers - traditionally valued in school spaces and offers a compelling argument for broadening our ideas around composition in order to honor the stories, the voices, and the lived experiences of all students"--

Student Writing

Student Writing
Author: Theresa M. Lillis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2002-01-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1134586566

Student Writing presents an accessible and thought-provoking study of academic writing practices. Informed by 'composition' research from the US and 'academic literacies studies' from the UK, the book challenges current official discourse on writing as a 'skill'. Lillis argues for an approach which sees student writing as social practice. The book draws extensively on a three-year study with ten non-traditional students in higher education and their experience of academic writing. Using case study material - including literacy history interviews, extended discussions with students about their writing of discipline specific essays, and extracts from essays - Lillis identifies the following as three significant dimensions to academic writing: * Access to higher education and to its language and literacy representational resources * Regulation of meaning making in academic writing * Desire for participation in higher education and for choices over ways of meaning in academic writing. Student Writing: access, regulation, desire raises questions about why academics write as they do, who benefits from such writing, which meanings are valued and how, on what terms 'outsiders' get to be 'insiders' and at what costs.

A Student's Writing Guide

A Student's Writing Guide
Author: Gordon Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2009-05-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0521729793

Boost your confidence and grades with this step-by-step guide to tackling university writing assignments.

What Student Writing Teaches Us

What Student Writing Teaches Us
Author: Mark Overmeyer
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2009
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1571107134

This book provides practical suggestions for teachers of writing. Framed within the context of writing workshop, the book examines the reasons for reading student work and provides various methods for helping students improve as writers.--[book cover].

Students Writing in the University

Students Writing in the University
Author: Carys Jones
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2000-01-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027294828

This volume aims to raise awareness of the underlying complexities concerning student writing in the universities. The authors address a series of theoretical as well as practical questions regarding the literacies required of students in Higher Education, from the perspective of both students themselves and of their tutors. The research described here intends to move beyond the narrow confines of current policy debates and the quick fix solutions of writing manuals, to explore the epistemological, cultural, historical and theoretical bases of such writing. Issues addressed include the nature of competing epistemologies that underlie the writing process and the varying degrees of explicitness about what academic writing entails; ways of challenging the institutional marginalisation of academic writing as teaching, learning, and research practice; what counts as knowledge and how far it is mediated by the rhetorical conventions of one culture; to what extent the challenging of such rhetorical conventions is itself a crucial epistemological issue. Writing, in this volume, then, is addressed in terms of academic literacy practices involving relations of power, issues of identity and theories of knowledge.