Why They Can't Write - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why They Can't Write write by John Warner. This book was released on 2018-12-03. Why They Can't Write available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An important challenge to what currently masquerades as conventional wisdom regarding the teaching of writing. There seems to be widespread agreement that—when it comes to the writing skills of college students—we are in the midst of a crisis. In Why They Can't Write, John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for two decades, argues that the problem isn't caused by a lack of rigor, or smartphones, or some generational character defect. Instead, he asserts, we're teaching writing wrong. Warner blames this on decades of educational reform rooted in standardization, assessments, and accountability. We have done no more, Warner argues, than conditioned students to perform "writing-related simulations," which pass temporary muster but do little to help students develop their writing abilities. This style of teaching has made students passive and disengaged. Worse yet, it hasn't prepared them for writing in the college classroom. Rather than making choices and thinking critically, as writers must, undergraduates simply follow the rules—such as the five-paragraph essay—designed to help them pass these high-stakes assessments. In Why They Can't Write, Warner has crafted both a diagnosis for what ails us and a blueprint for fixing a broken system. Combining current knowledge of what works in teaching and learning with the most enduring philosophies of classical education, this book challenges readers to develop the skills, attitudes, knowledge, and habits of mind of strong writers.
First-Year Composition
First-Year Composition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook First-Year Composition write by Deborah Coxwell-Teague. This book was released on 2014-05-01. First-Year Composition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First-Year Composition: From Theory to Practice’s combination of theory and practice provides readers an opportunity to hear twelve of the leading theorists in composition studies answer, in their own voices, the key question of what it is they hope to accomplish in a first-year composition course. In addition, these chapters, and the accompanying syllabi, provide rich insights into the classroom practices of these theorists.
Stories from First-year Composition
Stories from First-year Composition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stories from First-year Composition write by Jo-Anne Kerr. This book was released on 2020. Stories from First-year Composition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Stories from First-Year Composition: Pedagogies that Foster Student Agency and Writing Identity counters perceptions of first-year composition (FYC) as a service course that prepares students for college writing. The collection identifies a new FYC "service", one that accommodates the realities of writing both within and outside of the academy. The collection also offers insights into effective FYC pedagogies and opportunities for readers to consider and think about their own teaching and their identities as FYC instructors. "Reflect Before Reading" prompts and questions and after-reading activities, including "Questions for Discussion and Reflection," writing activities that ask readers to apply ideas shared in chapters to their own FYC courses, suggestions for further reading, and multimedia components (accessible to readers through links within the collection itself and as resources available on the book's website) invite readers to interact with chapters and to develop deeper and more enriched understandings of their FYC teaching and an accompanying sense of agency so that they not only can teach FYC effectively but also advocate for its value and relevance"--
Contribute a Verse
Contribute a Verse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contribute a Verse write by Tanya Long Bennett. This book was released on 2015-08-11. Contribute a Verse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contribute a Verse: A Guide to First Year Composition combines a composition rhetoric manual with grammar and documentation instruction and resources. The textbook also includes a glossary of pertinent terms and ancillary instructor resources.
Empowering the Community College First-Year Composition Teacher
Empowering the Community College First-Year Composition Teacher - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empowering the Community College First-Year Composition Teacher write by Meryl Siegal. This book was released on 2021-03-01. Empowering the Community College First-Year Composition Teacher available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Community colleges in the United States are the first point of entry for many students to a higher education, a career, and a new start. They continue to be a place of personal and, ultimately, societal transformation. And first-year composition courses have become sites of contestation. This volume is an inquiry into community college first-year pedagogy and policy at a time when change has not only been called for but also mandated by state lawmakers who financially control public education. It also acknowledges new policies that are eliminating developmental and remedial writing courses while keeping mind that, for most community college students, first-year composition serves as the last course they will take in the English department toward their associate’s degree. Chapters focusing on pedagogy and policy are integrated within cohesively themed parts: (1) refining pedagogy; (2) teaching toward acceleration; (3) considering programmatic change; and (4) exploring curriculum through research and policy. The volume concludes with the editors’ reflections regarding future work; a glossary and reflection questions are included. This volume also serves as a call to action to change the way community colleges attend to faculty concerns. Only by listening to teachers can the concerns discussed in the volume be addressed; it is the teachers who see how societal changes intersect with campus policies and students’ lives on a daily basis.
