Acts of Teaching: How to Teach Writing: How to Teach Writing: A Text, A Reader, A Narrative, 2nd Edition - Softcover

Carroll, Joyce; Wilson, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1591585171 ISBN 13: 9781591585176

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited, 2007

Synopsis

Carroll and Wilson have taken their successful Acts of Teaching into the 21st Century with this totally revised second edition. While maintaining the best of Acts, Acts II moves the paradigm into the global age. Comprehensive, innovative, and practical, and with forewords by two of the most noted scholars in the field, Janet Emig and Edmund J. Farrell, this text offers educators a powerful approach to teaching writing. Rather than repetitive exercises, it focuses on engagement and interaction so students grapple with words and experiences to make meaning. In Acts II the writing process and assessment gain a new dimension. Recent research supports its content and strategies while cognitive development and neurological theories, early literacy, inquiry, and writing as a mode of learning across all disciplines and grade levels have been invigorated. Topics include students, shifts and skills for the global age, the writing process, and assessment, three chapters on how to teach grammar within the writing process, collaboration, post writing, and publishing. This book meets the needs of anyone writing or teaching writing. Grades PreK-12.

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Review:

"Now in an extensively updated and significantly expanded second edition Acts of Teaching: How To Teach Writing....is a 501-page compendium of instruction on all aspects of the art and craft of teaching aspiring authors how to write effectively regardless of the genre or discipline they are writing in or for....Acts of Teaching is not only very highly recommended as an educational curriculum guide and supplement for the teaching of writing in a college or university level course, it is also invaluable reading for any aspiring writer seeking to become as effective as they can be within the demands of any scientific discipline, literary genre, or commercial enterprise they might find themselves working in." - Wisconsin Bookwatch

"This updated text focuses on educating teachers with unique ways to engage students in the activity of learning to write." - VOYA

Synopsis:

The authors of this book have taken their successful "Acts of Teaching into the 21st Century" with this totally revised second edition. Comprehensive, innovative, and practical, this text offers educators a powerful approach to teaching writing. Rather than use repetitive exercises, it focuses on engagement and interaction, so students grapple with words and experiences to make meaning.In this second edition, the writing process and assessment gain a new dimension. Recent research supports its content and strategies while cognitive development and neurological theories, early literacy, inquiry, and writing as a mode of learning across all disciplines and grade levels have been invigorated. The topics include students, shifts, and skills for the global age, the writing process and assessment, three chapters on how to teach grammar within the writing process, collaboration, post writing, and publishing. This book meets the needs of everyone writing or teaching writing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1591585171
• ISBN 13: 9781591585176
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 544