Teaching With Student Texts

Essays Toward an Informed Practice

Joseph Harris, John D Miles, Charles Paine, Joseph Harris, John D Miles, Charles Paine

• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Year: 2010
• ISBN:
  9780874217865
• Topic: Lingue e linguistica
• Subtopic: Linguistica

Harris, Miles and Paine ask: What happens when the texts that students write become the focus of a writing course? In response, a distinguished group of scholar/teachers suggests that teaching with students texts is not simply a classroom technique, but a way of working with writing that defines composition as a field.In Teaching with Student Texts, authors discuss ways of revaluing student writing as intellectual work, of circulating student texts in the classroom and beyond, and of changing our classroom practices by bringing student writings to the table. Together, these essays articulate a variety of ways that student texts can take a central place in classroom work and can, in the process, redefine the ways our field talks about writing.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction / Joseph Harris, John D. Miles, and Charles Paine
• I. Valuing Student Texts
• II. Circulating Student Texts
• III. Changing Classroom Practices
• Afterword: Notes toward an Informed Practice / Charles Paine and John D. Miles
• References
• Index
• Contributors