Writing-Based Teaching by Teresa Vilardi

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Writing-Based Teaching by Teresa Vilardi

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.

"Instructors interested in developing a classroom 'practice' of writing will find this collection a rich resourceThe essays are well formulated; the volume itself, thoughtfully organized. Iteratively captured in a range of voices and teaching strategies, the underlying argument is compelling." — Teaching Theology and Religion

"As a former teaching assistant I would have benefited from experiencing a program like that described in Writing-Based Teaching." — Paul Baker, Wordsalad.wordpress.com

"Any individual, program, or institution seriously interested in understanding and practicing the writing process would benefit from using this text." — Alison Cook-Sather, author of Education is Translation: A Metaphor for Change in Learning and Teaching

"One of the most important ideas in this collection is that we, as writing teachers, need to develop habits of action and habits of mind that students can take with them." — Pat Belanoff, coauthor of Being a Writer: A Community of Writers Revisited

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

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ISBN 13 9781438429076
ISBN 10 143842907X
Title Writing-Based Teaching
Author Teresa Vilardi
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher State University of New York Press
Year published 2009-11-10
Number of pages 220
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.