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.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Arendt, Writing Teachers, and Beginnings; 2. Labor and Endlessness: Necessity and Consumption in the First Semester; 3. Teachers-as-Students: Work and Action in the Middle Space; 4. Thinking What We Are Doing: Knowledge Making in the Trenches; Appendix A: Recruitment Letter; Appendix B: Orientation Survey; Notes; Works Cited and Consulted; Index; Author Biography; CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric; Other Books in the CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric Series; Back Cover.