Sharing and Responding Guide - Softcover

Elbow, Peter; Belanoff, Patricia; Belanof, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070196958 ISBN 13: 9780070196957

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 1995

Synopsis

To help foster a productive environment for group work, this text offers advice to students on talking with one another about their writing. The activities in this guide move from non-judgmental kinds of responding to full criticism to help build students' confidence and trust. The guide contains two sample papers, which are used to illustrate different kinds of feedback. It concludes with a summary of ways of responding and suggestions on how and when they're most useful.

About this title

From the Publisher

Brief, practical, and directed'SHARING AND RESPONDING can be used to supplement virtually any writing text in any writing course where instructors want to establish workshops or a peer editing environment.
Provides step-by-step guidelines to help establish a non-threatening, supportive hierarchy for responding in workshop groups.
As point of reference, the guide contains two sample papers to illustrate different kinds of feedback.

About the Author

Peter Elbow is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Before writing A Community of Writers, he wrote two other books about writing: Writing Without Teachers and Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process. He is author of a book of essays about learning and teaching: Embracing Contraries. He also wrote Oppositions in Chaucer, as well as numerous essays about writing and teaching. His most recent book, What Is English? explores current issues in the profession of English. He has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Franconia College, Evergreen State College, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook—where for five years he directed the Writing Program. He served for four years on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association and is now a member of the Executive Committee of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. He has given talks and workshops at many colleges and university. He attended Williams College and Harvard University and has an M.A. from Exeter College, Oxford University, and a Ph.D. from Brandeis University.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070196958
• ISBN 13: 9780070196957
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 80