Teaching Academic Literacy: The Uses of Teacher-research in Developing A Writing Program

by Weese; Katherine L.

• ISBN13: 9780805828030
• ISBN10: 0805828036
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume illustrates the success of the University of Wisconsin writing program in educating teachers of writing. Scholars and educators involved in all aspects of writing will find this work valuable.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Barbara Walvoord
Preface	xi
Linda Flower
Introduction: The Value of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's First-Year Writing Curriculum	xiii
Stephen L. Fox
Stuart Greene
Katherine L. Weese
Part I: The Wisconsin Program
Learning From Students: An Approach to Teaching Beginning College Writers	3	(18)
Katherine L. Weese
Inviting Students to Join the Literacy Conversation: Toward a Collaborative Pedagogy for Academic Literacy	21	(24)
Stephen L. Fox
``Only Connect'': Sequencing Assignments in the Beginning Writing Classroom	45	(22)
Katherine L. Weese
Part II: Classroom Research Studies
The Legacy of Schooling: Secondary School Composition and the Beginning College Writer	67	(18)
Nicholas Preus
How Beginning Writing Students Interpret the Task of Writing an Academic Argument	85	(34)
Stuart Greene
Intertextuality, Genre, and Beginning Writers: Mining Your Own Texts	119	(16)
Marie C. Paretti
The Dialogic Writing Conference: Negotiating and Predicting the Role of Author	135	(14)
Jana French
Teaching Talk about Writing: Student Conflict in Acquiring a New Discourse of Authorship Through Collaborative Planning	149	(26)
Stuart Greene
Erin Smith
The Study of Error	175	(26)
David Bartholomae
Afterword: A Nation of Authors	195	(6)
Deboarah Brandt
Appendix A: Major Assignments in the UW-Madison Literacy Course	201	(4)
Appendix B: Prewriting Exercises and Writing Assignments to Aid Students in Composing the Formal Papers	205	(8)
Appendix C: Suggested Readings	213	(2)
Author Index	215	(4)
Subject Index	219