Teaching Writing in High School and College : Conversations and Collaborations

by Thompson, Thomas C.

• ISBN13: 9780814109755
• ISBN10: 0814109756
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Natl Council of Teachers

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
I. Trading Places	1	(20)
Scriptless in High School: Teaching Dreams of a College Professor	3	(10)
Don Daiker
A Teacher Exchange That Changed Teachers	13	(8)
Ron Fortune
Claire Lamonica
Janice Neuleib
II. Modeling Collaboration for Preservice Teachers	21	(50)
It Takes More Than a Consortium Marguerite Quintelli-Neary	23	(17)
You've Got Priority Mail: ``The Single Most Valuable Activity of Our Semester''	40	(17)
Nancy S. Tucker
Leah A. Zuidema
High School Students Meet ``College Standards''	57	(14)
Thomas C. Thompson
Betsy Wilson
III. What Is ``College Writing,'' Anyway?	71	(42)
What We Talk about When We Talk about College Writing	73	(21)
Herb Budden
Mary B. Nicolini
Stephen L. Fox
Stuart Greene
Productively Contentious Discussions: Teachers Talk about the Teaching of Writing	94	(19)
Stephen Lafer
Launie Gardner
Richard Hoadley
Terry DeBarger
April Sawyer
IV. High School to College: How Smooth a Transition?	113	(38)
The Fantasy of the ``Seamless Transition''	115	(21)
Janet Alsup
Michael Bernard-Donals
Talking about the Transition: Dialogues between High School and University Teachers	136	(15)
Wendy Strachan
V. Starting College in High School	151	(50)
The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and Area High Schools Strike a Partnership	153	(16)
Susan Kapanke
Melissa Westemeier
Creating a Connected Space: Mentoring in the Zone of Proximal Development	169	(13)
Kim Jaxon
``Why Do I Have to Take Remedial English?'' A Collaborative Model to Solve a National Problem	182	(19)
Chris Jennings
Jane Hunn
VI. Conversations about Collaboration	201	(34)
Crossing Levels: The Dynamics of K--16 Teachers' Collaboration	203	(11)
Diana Callahan
Charles Moran
Mary-Ann DeVita Palmieri
Bruce M. Penniman
Sleeping with the Enemy: Communiques from a Pedagogical Marriage	214	(7)
Richard E. Brantley
Diana R. Brantley
Getting Out of the Way	221	(14)
Mary Baron
Denise Rambach
Editor	235	(2)
Contributors	237