Research Catalog

Title

Don't call it that : the composition practicum / edited by Sidney I. Dobrin.

Publication

Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English, c2005.

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Additional Authors

Dobrin, Sidney I., 1967-

Description

x, 356 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

This volume addresses the role of the English professor in teaching graduate students in the "how-to-teach-writing" introductory courses. The essays argue that, far from a simple introduction about how to teach writing, the courses often serve as an introduction to composition theory, to research methodologies, to pedagogical theory, and to the histories of composition studies as a discipline.

Subject

• English language > Study and teaching (Graduate)
• Practicums

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : Finding Space for the Composition Practicum / Sidney I. Dobrin -- Writing Theory and Writing the Classroom / Joe Marshall Hardin -- Managing Transitions : Reorienting Perceptions in a Practicum Course / Juan C. Guerra and Anis Bawarshi -- Practica, Symposia, and Other Coercive Acts in Composition Studies / Bonnie Lenore Kyburz -- The Composition Practicum as Professional Development / Susan Kay Miller [and others] -- Plug and Play : Technology and Mentoring Teachers of Writing / Samantha Blackmon and Shirley K. Rose -- Unraveling Generative Tensions in the Composition Practicum / Kelly Belanger and Sibylle Gruber -- The Benefits and Challenges of Including Undergraduates in the Composition Practicum / Jonathan Bush, Georgina Hill, and Jeanne LaHaie -- Chickens, Eggs, and the Composition Practicum / Anne Trubek -- From Theory to Theorizing : Rethinking the Graduate Introduction to Composition Course / Anthony J. Michel -- Theory in a TA Composition Pedagogy Course : Not If, but How / Ruth Overman Fischer -- Enacting Theory : The Practicum as the Site of Invention / Mary Lou Odom, Michael Bernard-Donals, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum -- Trained Incapacity in Teacher Training : Burkean Ruminations on How, When, and Where Teacher Knowledge Originates / David Stacey -- The Teaching Practicum as a Site of Inquiry and Action / Joanne Addison -- The New Media Instructor : Cultural Capital and Writing Instruction / Jeff Rice -- Finding Myself Lost in the Composition Practicum Course / Lu Ellen Huntley -- Why Not Call It Practicum? : It Is Practice / Deborah Murray -- The GTA Writing Portfolio : An Impact Study of Learning by Writing / Rosemary (Gates) Winslow.

ISBN

0814112218 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2005020081

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library