Reconstructing Response To Student Writing

Author : Dan Melzer
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781646423682

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In Reconstructing Response to Student Writing Dan Melzer makes the argument that writing instructors should shift the construct so that peer response and student self-assessment are more central than teacher response. Presenting the results of a national study of teacher and peer response and student self-assessment at institutions of higher education across the United States, Melzer analyzes teacher and peer response to over 1,000 pieces of student writing as well as 128 student portfolio reflection essays. He draws on his analysis and on a comprehensive review of the literature on response to introduce a constructivist heuristic for response aimed at both composition instructors and instructors across disciplines. Melzer argues that teachers and researchers should focus less on teacher response to individual pieces of student writing and more on engaging in dialogue with student self-assessment and peer response, focusing on growth and transfer rather than products and grades. Reconstructing Response to Student Writing, especially when taken together with Melzer’s previous book Assignments across the Curriculum, provides a comprehensive and large-scale view of college writing and responding across the curriculum in the United States.

Author : Dan Melzer
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781646423675

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Reconstructing Response to Student Writing by Dan Melzer Pdf

In Reconstructing Response to Student Writing Dan Melzer makes the argument that writing instructors should shift the construct so that peer response and student self-assessment are more central than teacher response. Presenting the results of a national study of teacher and peer response and student self-assessment at institutions of higher education across the United States, Melzer analyzes teacher and peer response to over 1,000 pieces of student writing as well as 128 student portfolio reflection essays. He draws on his analysis and on a comprehensive review of the literature on response to introduce a constructivist heuristic for response aimed at both composition instructors and instructors across disciplines. Melzer argues that teachers and researchers should focus less on teacher response to individual pieces of student writing and more on engaging in dialogue with student self-assessment and peer response, focusing on growth and transfer rather than products and grades. Reconstructing Response to Student Writing, especially when taken together with Melzer’s previous book Assignments across the Curriculum, provides a comprehensive and large-scale view of college writing and responding across the curriculum in the United States.

Author : Dana R. Ferris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135655778

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Response To Student Writing by Dana R. Ferris Pdf

This volume synthesizes and critically analyzes the literature on response to the writing of second language students, and discusses the implications of the research for teaching practice in the areas of written and oral teacher commentary on student writing, error correction, and facilitation of peer response. The book features numerous examples of student texts and teacher commentary, as well as figures and appendices that summarize research findings and present sample lessons and other teaching materials. It is thus simultaneously comprehensive in its approach to the existing research and highly practical in showing current and future teachers how this material applies to their everyday endeavors of responding to student writing and teaching composition classes. Response to student writing--whether it takes the form of teachers' written feedback on content, error correction, teacher-student conferences, or peer response--is an extremely important component of teaching second language writing. Probably no single activity takes more teacher time and energy. Response to Student Writing is a valuable theoretical and practical resource for those involved in this crucial work, including L2 composition researchers, in-service and preservice teachers of ESOL/EFL writers, and teacher educators preparing graduate students for the teaching of writing.

Author : Sarah Warshauer Freedman,Cynthia Greenleaf,Melanie Sperling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : English language
ISBN : 0318352818

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Author : Dana Ferris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 0805836578

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Response to Student Writing by Dana Ferris Pdf

This volume synthesizes and critically analyzes the literature on response to the writing of second language students, and discusses the implications of the research for teaching practice in the areas of written and oral teacher commentary on student writing, error correction, and facilitation of peer response. The book features numerous examples of student texts and teacher commentary, as well as figures and appendices that summarize research findings and present sample lessons and other teaching materials. It is thus simultaneously comprehensive in its approach to the existing research and highly practical in showing current and future teachers how this material applies to their everyday endeavors of responding to student writing and teaching composition classes. Response to student writing--whether it takes the form of teachers' written feedback on content, error correction, teacher-student conferences, or peer response--is an extremely important component of teaching second language writing. Probably no single activity takes more teacher time and energy. Response to Student Writing is a valuable theoretical and practical resource for those involved in this crucial work, including L2 composition researchers, in-service and preservice teachers of ESOL/EFL writers, and teacher educators preparing graduate students for the teaching of writing.

Author : Richard Straub
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : College prose
ISBN : UCSC:32106017275436

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The Practice of Response by Richard Straub Pdf

This text sets out to help teachers gain a practical understanding of response to student writings. It displays and analyzes various sets of comments, defining the strategies used in each and situating teacher response in the larger context of writing instruction.

Author : Richard Straub
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : College prose
ISBN : UCSC:32106017320471

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A Sourcebook for Responding to Student Writing by Richard Straub Pdf

A Sourcebook for Responding to Student Writing is a resource for writing teachers. It provides a range of teacher comments on a sampling of college student papers and an anthology of key statements on theory and practice of responding to student writing. Specifically, the book presents: twenty-five sets of responses, made on a sampling of five student papers, including expressive, explanatory, evaluative, and argumentative writing; comments by a variety of teachers both well-recognized composition scholars who have contributed to the research on teacher response and college English teachers whose primary area of study is outside composition; two additional essays without accompanying teacher comments, for further practice; a detailed bibliography on teacher response; a collection of noted articles on reading, evaluating, and responding to student writing[.] Free of analysis and apparatus, the book may be used by teachers in their own ways, according to their own assumptions, predilections and goals, to develop better ways of responding to student writing. --From cover.

Author : Rebecca Mlynarczyk,Steven B. Haber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-04
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521540283

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In Our Own Words Student Book by Rebecca Mlynarczyk,Steven B. Haber Pdf

In Our Own Words takes the unique approach of using student writing as a resource for writing instruction and idea development. The defining characteristic of this unique high-intermediate to advanced writing text is the use of non-native student writing to teach writing. This feature makes the text easily accessible to and popular with students. The third edition features 15 new readings by student writers, five new readings by professional writers, updated writing topics, Internet activities to support the writing process, and contextualized revising and editing activities.

Author : Chris M. Anson
Publisher : Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : English language
ISBN : UIUC:30112007010645

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Writing and Response by Chris M. Anson Pdf

This book contains 16 articles on how teachers respond to students' writing and how they can help students evaluate their own writing and make it more effective. It encourages teachers to study their own assumptions and techniques for responding to student work, assess whether they are helping students take responsibility, and adjust their approaches to meet this goal. The articles are: (1) "Reconceiving Literacy: Language Use and Social Relations" (D. Bleich); (2) "Images of Student Writing: The Deep Structure of Teacher Response" (L. Phelps); (3) "Transactional Theory and Response to Student Writing" (R. Probst); (4) "A Horse Named Hans, a Boy Named Shawn: The Herr von Osten Theory of Response to Writing" (R. Hunt); (5) "Learning to Praise" (D. Daiker); (6) "The Use of Rogerian Reflection in Small-Group Writing Conferences" (D. Thomas and G. Thomas); (7) "Showing Students How to Assess: Demonstrating Techniques for Response in the Writing Conference" (R. Beach); (8) "Responding to Student Journals" (T. Fulwiler); (9) "The Writer's Memo: Collaboration, Response, and Development" (J. Sommers); (10) "Response in the Electronic Medium" (G. Sirc); (11) "Response to Writing as a Context for Learning to Write" (M. Nystrand and D. Brandt); (12) "The Student, the Teacher, and the Text: Negotiating Meanings through Response and Revision" (C. Onore); (13) "The Semantics of Error: What Do Teachers Know?" (S. Wall and G. Hull); (14) "A Theoretical Framework for Studying Peer Tutoring as Response" (A. Matsuhashi and others); (15) "The First Five Minutes: Setting the Agenda in a Writing Conference" (T. Newkirk); and (16) "Response Styles and Ways of Knowing" (C. Anson). (SR)

Author : Mary K. Tedrow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351683388

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Write, Think, Learn by Mary K. Tedrow Pdf

Find out how to create the climate and space for everyday student writing. In this new co-publication with MiddleWeb, award-winning teacher Mary Tedrow shows you how to encourage students to integrate daily writing into their lives, leading to improved critical thinking skills, increased knowledge of subject areas, and greater confidence in written expression. This practical guide will help you consider the unique needs of your students, while still meeting state standards. You’ll discover how to... Develop classroom routines and activities that invite creativity and self-expression Teach writing methods that can be used across different grade levels and all content areas Challenge students to examine their own writing processes for thinking and problem solving Evaluate written work in a way that emphasizes growth over grades Many exercises, prompts, and attempts at thinking found in the book can be easily adapted for use both in and out of the classroom. Whether you are a new or experienced teacher, Write, Think, Learn will enable you to make writing come alive for all your students.

Author : Richard Straub,Ronald F. Lunsford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017914875

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Twelve Readers Reading by Richard Straub,Ronald F. Lunsford Pdf

This work gives the reader a chance to look over the shoulders of 12 theorists, and study how they comment on student writing. It presents over 50 sets of teachers' comments on a sampling of student essays, and describes each of the readers' response styles.

Author : Barbara E. Walvoord
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781118559185

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Assessing and Improving Student Writing in College by Barbara E. Walvoord Pdf

Step-by-step guidance for shaping better writers while keeping faculty workloads manageable Effective communication is a critical skill for many academic disciplines and careers, and so colleges and universities and their faculty members are rightfully committed to improving student writing across the curriculum. Guiding and assessing student writing in classrooms, general education, and departments takes knowledge, planning, and persistence, but it can be done effectively and efficiently. Written in the concise, accessible style Barbara Walvoord is known for, Assessing and Improving Student Writing in College: A Guide for Institutions, General Education, Departments, and Classrooms offers administrators, program chairs, general education leaders, and classroom instructors the guidance they need. The book provides concrete suggestions for how to: Articulate goals for student writing Measure student writing Improve student writing Document that improvement The book begins by addressing four basic concepts: what we mean by writing, what we mean by "good" writing, how students learn to write, and the purposes of assessment. Next, Walvoord explains the various approaches and methods for assessing writing, urging a combination of them adapted to the institution's purposes and political context. After this introduction, successive chapters offer realistic, practical advice to institution-wide and general education leaders, department members, and classroom instructors. Walvoord addresses issues such as how to engage faculty, how to use rubrics, how to aggregate assessment information at the department and institutional levels, and how to report assessment information to accreditors. The chapter for classroom instructors offers practical suggestions: how to add more writing to a course without substantially increasing the grading load; how to construct writing assignments, how to make grading and responding more effective and time-efficient, how to address grammar and punctuation, and how to support students whose native language is not English. The book also includes four helpful appendices: a taxonomy of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID) programs; sample outlines for faculty development workshops; a student survey on teaching methods instructors can use to inform their choices in the classroom; and a student self-check cover sheet designed to help students take ownership of their own learning and responsibility for turning in complete, correct assignments. Practical, step-by-step guidance for each point in the assessment and improvement process creates a cohesive, institution-wide system that keeps students, faculty, and administrators on the same page.

Author : Tamara Girardi,Abigail G. Scheg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000374483

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Theories and Strategies for Teaching Creative Writing Online by Tamara Girardi,Abigail G. Scheg Pdf

As the online world of creative writing teaching, learning, and collaborating grows in popularity and necessity, this book explores the challenges and unique benefits of teaching creative writing online. This collection highlights expert voices who have taught creative writing effectively in the online environment, to broaden the conversation regarding online education in the discipline, and to provide clarity for English and writing departments interested in expanding their offerings to include online creative writing courses but doing so in a way that serves students and the discipline appropriately. Interesting as it is useful, Theories and Strategies for Teaching Creative Writing Online offers a contribution to creative writing scholarship and begins a vibrant discussion specifically regarding effectiveness of online education in the discipline.

Author : Bruce Lawson,Susan Sterr Ryan,W. Ross Winterowd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007937621

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Encountering Student Texts by Bruce Lawson,Susan Sterr Ryan,W. Ross Winterowd Pdf

Designed to raise the full range of hermeneutic concerns regarding evaluation of student writing, and to spur further research and discussion, this collection of essays focuses on a reconsideration of the interpretation and evaluation practices of writing teachers. Essays include: "A Reflective Conversation: 'Tempos of Meaning'" (Margaret Himley); "The Drama of the Text" (W. Ross Winterowd); "A Hero in the Classroom" (James Thomas Zebroski); "Learning to Read Student Papers from a Feminine Perspective, I" (Elizabeth A. Flynn); "An Analysis of Response: Dream, Prayer, and Chart" (Tilly Warnock); "Teachers as Readers, Readers as Teachers" (Patricia Y. Murray); "Asking for a Text and Trying to Learn It" (Jim W. Corder); "On Intention in Student Texts" (Sharon Crowley); "Reading Intention" (Norm Katz); "Interpreting Student Writing" (Janice M. Lauer); "Learning to Read Student Papers from a Feminine Perspective, II" (John F. Flynn); "Reading Student Texts: Proteus Grabbing Proteus" (Charles Bazerman); "On Writing Reading and Reading Writing" (Lisa Ede); "Reading a Text: Does the Author Make a Difference?" (Stephen B. Kucer); "Paper Grading and the Rhetorical Stance" (James S. Baumlin and Tita French Baumlin); "Evaluating Writing to Learn: Responding to Journals" (Richard Beach); "Imagining the Past and Teaching Essay and Poetry Writing" (Anthony Petrosky); and "Responding to Responses: Good News, Bad News, and Unanswered Questions" (Lee Odell). (RS)

Author : Harry Grover Tuttle
Publisher : Eye On Education
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781596671287

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Successful Student Writing Through Formative Assessment by Harry Grover Tuttle Pdf

First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.