Research Catalog

Title

Reading student writing : confessions, meditations, and rants / Lad Tobin.

Author

Tobin, Lad.

Publication

Portsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook/Heineman, c2004.

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Details

Description

viii, 144 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Presents a comprehensive guide for teachers that provides strategies for effectively reading and understanding student essays discusses ways in which individual values and assumptions affect the way teachers evaluate student writing.

Subject

• College prose > Evaluation
• College students' writings > Evaluation
• English language > Study and teaching
• Report writing > Ability testing
• Report writing > Study and teaching (Higher)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-144).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Elephant in the Classroom -- Reading Student Writing -- How Many Writing Teachers Does It Take to Read a Student Essay? -- Reading and Writing About Death, Disease, and Dysfunction, or How I Spend My Summer Vacations -- Replacing the Carrot with the Couch: Reading Psychotherapeutically -- Car Wrecks, Baseball Caps, and Man-to-Man Defense: The Personal Narratives of Adolescent Males -- Reading Ourselves as Writing Teachers -- Fear and Loathing of Fear and Loathing: Analyzing Our Love-Hate Relationship with Emotion -- Referring Ourselves to the Counseling Center: Confronting Boredom and Burnout in the Teaching of Writing -- Teaching with a Fake ID -- Reading the Teaching of Writing -- Reading Composition's Misplaced Anxieties About Personal Writing -- What We're Walling In, What We're Walling Out: Reading (and Rewriting) Our Own Bad Assignments -- Reading Our Classrooms, Writing Our Selves.

ISBN

0867095458 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004000562

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library