Including Students in Academic Conversations: Principles and Strategies of Theme-Based Writing Cours

Quantity in Basket:none Code: 978-1-61289-014-2 Price:$62.50 Title: Including Students in Academic Conversations Sub-title: Principles and Strategies of Theme-Based Writing Courses Across the Disciplines Author(s): Deborah Rossen-Knill and Tatyana Bahkmetyeva Publish Date: March 2011 Pages: 258 Format: Cloth

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This book responds to the new writing instructor’s need to understand the complexity of classroom teaching before entering the classroom. Designed to complement studies in composition, this book brings the instructor-to-be into the classrooms of experienced writing instructors from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. These experienced instructor’s successes, half-successes, failures, and reflections on their classroom teaching help to make visible the process of creating and implementing classroom activities. All instructional strategies are grounded in a set of principles of academic writing that are equally accessible and credible to instructors from across the disciplines. Chapter 1 introduces the authors’ principles of academic writing; throughout the chapter, voices of writers from across the disciplines speak about the process and purpose behind their work. Chapters 2 through 4 further explain the principles, relate them to learning goals and teaching strategies, detail the relevant classroom activities through extended case studies, and discuss what the activities suggest about the teaching of writing. Throughout the book, instructors mull over successes and failures in their general reflections and cautions. Finally, the book’s conclusion specifically addresses the issue of failure as an inevitable and potentially productive part of learning to teach. Contents: Introduction: A Chicken Soup for the Teacher’s Soul. PRINCIPLES OF ACADEMIC WRITING. QUESTIONS BEFORE ANSWERS. Writing with Motive. Developing Analytical Questions about Poems. Prewriting Exercise: Textual Analysis/Generating Ideas. Developing and Revising Research Questions. Themes That Emerge from Question-Development Activities. ANSWERS AND THEN QUESTIONS. On Discussion. On Peer Response. RHETORICAL GRAMMAR: GRAMMAR IN DIALOGUE WITH WRITING. Syntactic Analysis. Paragraph Cohesion: Given-New and End-Focus Expectations. Intonation and Punctuation. Focusing Transformations/ Emphatic Positioning. Thematic Development. Formulaic Expressions. Themes That Emerge from Rhetorical Grammar Exercises. Conclusion: on Failure or Revision in Teaching. Author Index. Subject Index.