Description
Book SynopsisAmerican author Kurt Vonnegut has famously declared that writing is unteachable, yet formal education persists in that task.
Teaching Writing as Journey, Not Destination is the culmination of P.L. Thomas’s experiences as both a writer and a teacher of writing reaching into the fourth decade of struggling with both.
This volume collects essays that examine the enduring and contemporary questions facing writing teachers, including grammar instruction, authentic practices in high-stakes environments, student choice, citation and plagiarism, the five-paragraph essay, grading, and the intersections of being a writer and teaching writing. Thomas offers concrete classroom experiences drawn from teaching high school ELA, first-year composition, and a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses. Ultimately, however, the essays are a reflection of Thomas’s journey and a concession to both writing and teaching writing as journeys without ultimate destinations.
Table of Contents
- Section I: Accountability, Standards, And Highstakes Testing Of Writing
- Section II: Being A Writing Teacher
- Section III: Being A Writer
- Section IV: Choice
- Section V: Citation And Research Papers
- Section VI: Creative Writing
- Section VII: Diagramming Sentences
- Section VIII: Direct Instruction
- Section IX: Disciplinary Writing
- Section X: First-Year Composition
- Section XI: Five-Paragraph Essay
- Section XII: Genre Awareness
- Section XIII: Grading
- Section XIV: Grammar
- Section XV: Labrant, Lou
- Section XVI: Literacy And The Literary Technique Hunt
- Section XVII: Plagiarism
- Section XVIII: Poetry
- Section XIX: Public Intellectual (Writing For The Public)
- Section XX: Publishing
- Section XXI: Reading Like A Writer
- Section XXII: Rubrics
- Section XXIII: Teaching English
- Section XXIV: Writing Process
