First Semester : Graduate Students, Teaching Writing, and the Challenge of Middle Ground.

Jessica Restaino offers a snapshot of the first semester experiences of graduate student writing teachers as they navigate predetermined course syllabi and materials, the pressures of grading, the influences of foundational scholarship, and their own classroom authority. With rich qualitative data g...

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Hovedforfatter: Restaino, Jessica
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2012.
©2012
Serier:Studies in writing & rhetoric.
Online adgang:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=960293
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Summary:Jessica Restaino offers a snapshot of the first semester experiences of graduate student writing teachers as they navigate predetermined course syllabi and materials, the pressures of grading, the influences of foundational scholarship, and their own classroom authority. With rich qualitative data gathered from course observations, interviews, and correspondence, Restaino traces four graduate students' first experiences as teachers at a large, public university. Yet the circumstances and situations she relates will ring familiar at widely varying institutions. First Semester: Graduate Student.
Fysisk beskrivelse:1 online resource (165 pages)
Bibliografi:Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-138) and index.
ISBN:1336153679
9781336153677
9780809390908
0809390906
9780809330812