Letters for the Living: Teaching Writing in a Violent Age (Refiguring English Studies)

Michael Blitz; Claude Hurlbert

ISBN 10: 0814128033 / ISBN 13: 9780814128039

Published by Natl Council of Teachers, 1998

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0814128033I4N00

Synopsis:

In Letters for the Living: Teaching Writing in a Violence Age, Michael Blitz and C. Mark Hurlbert examine issues of violence in the lives of their college students and present possibilities for teaching composition as an act of peace-making. Through a variety of writings, the authors illustrate their students' experiences on the city streets of New York and in the small mining and steel towns of western Pennsylvania. In one section, the authors report on a semester-long project in which their cles were linked as they researched and wrote about their own neighborhoods and the neighborhoods of their interstate partners. These two groups of students taught each other about the places in which they live and the ways in which they live there, and, in many cases, what each learned about the other was shocking. Blitz and Hurlbert, who frequently correspond via e-mail, also share with the reader letters in which they reflect upon their work as teachers, in an effort to understand the personal and cultural implications of what students write and say. Often disturbing, always honest, Letters for the Living offers a fascinating look into the lives and writings of real students and real teachers struggling to make meaning of these violent times. --- from book's back cover

Bibliographic Details

Title: Letters for the Living: Teaching Writing in ...
Publisher: Natl Council of Teachers
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket