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| The Work of Teaching Writing
ISBN: 9781607329725
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Utah State University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Teachers in literature.; Teachers in motion pictures.;
Film and literature can illuminate the experience of teaching and learning writing in ways that academic books and articles often miss. In particular, popular books and movies about teaching reveal the crucial importance of taking students seriously as writers and intellectuals. In this book, Joseph Harris explores how the work of teaching writing has been depicted in novels, films, and plays to reveal what teachers can learn from studying not just theories of discourse, rhetoric, and pedagogy but also accounts of the lived experience of teaching writing.
Each chapter examines a fictional representation of writing classes--as portrayed in Dead Poets Society , Up the Down Staircase , Educating Rita , Push , and more--and shifts the conversation from how these works portray teachers to how they dramatize the actual work of teaching. Harris considers scenes of instruction from different stages of the writing process and depictions of students and teachers at work together to highlight the everyday aspects of teaching writing.
In the writing classroom the ideas of teachers come to life in the work of their students. The Work of Teaching Writing shows what fiction, film, and drama can convey about the moment of exchange between teacher and student as they work together to create new insights into writing. It will interest both high school and undergraduate English teachers, as well as graduate students and scholars in composition and rhetoric, literary studies, and film studies.
Joseph Harris is professor of English at the University of Delaware, where he teaches composition, creative nonfiction, and digital writing. Previously, he directed the first-year writing programs at the University of Pittsburgh and Duke University. His other books from Utah State University Press are Teaching with Student Texts , A Teaching Subject , and Rewriting .
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