The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing by Gregory R. Glau. Bedford/St. Martins,2002

The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing

Computers & Technology

Adler-Kassner, Linda

Glau, Gregory R.

Programming

Bedford/St.Martin's

Compiled by members of the Conference on Basic Writing under the general editorship of Linda Adler-Kassner and Gregory R. Glau, this annotated list of books, articles, and periodicals was selected specifically for their value to teachers of basic writing.

Showing the important connection between education and literacy, this collection of writing assignments and readings encourage readers to think about their experiences in college. Reading and Writing the College Experience offers a flexible, yet structured set of unique scaffolded writing assignments that will help students develop writing strategies. Each assignment contains a list of readings included in the book to be used in conjunction with the writing assignment. The result is that students have a greater understanding of the connection between education and literacy.

Considering Literacy: Reading and Writing- The Educational Experience

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Pearson

One wonders if there is any academic field that doesn’t suffer from the way it is portrayed by the media, by politicians, by pundits and other publics. How well scholars in a discipline articulate their own definition can influence not only issues of image but the very success of the discipline in serving students and its other constituencies. The Activist WPA is an effort to address this range of issues for the field of English composition in the age of the Spellings Commission and the No Child Left Behind Act. Drawing on recent developments in framing theory and the resurgent traditions of progressive organizers, Linda Adler-Kassner calls upon composition teachers and administrators to develop strategic programs of collective action that do justice to composition’s best principles. Adler-Kassner argues that the “story” of college composition can be changed only when writing scholars bring the wonders down, to articulate a theory framework that is pragmatic and intelligible to those outside the field--and then create messages that reference that framework. In The Activist WPA, she makes a case for developing a more integrated vision of outreach, English education, and writing program administration.

Activist WPA, The: Changing Stories About Writing and Writers

Words, Language & Grammar

Utah State University Press

One wonders if there is any academic field that doesn’t suffer from the way it is portrayed by the media, by politicians, by pundits and other publics. How well scholars in a discipline articulate their own definition can influence not only issues of image but the very success of the discipline in serving students and its other constituencies. The Activist WPA is an effort to address this range of issues for the field of English composition in the age of the Spellings Commission and the No Child Left Behind Act.Drawing on recent developments in framing theory and the resurgent traditions of progressive organizers, Linda Adler-Kassner calls upon composition teachers and administrators to develop strategic programs of collective action that do justice to composition’s best principles. Adler-Kassner argues that the “story” of college composition can be changed only when writing scholars bring the wonders down, to articulate a theory framework that is pragmatic and intelligible to those outside the field--and then create messages that reference that framework. In The Activist WPA, she makes a case for developing a more integrated vision of outreach, English education, and writing program administration.

The Activist Wpa: Changing Stories about Writing and Writers

Educators strive to create “assessment cultures” in which they integrate evaluation into teaching and learning and match assessment methods with best instructional practice. But how do teachers and administrators discover and negotiate the values that underlie their evaluations? Bob Broad’s 2003 volume, What We Really Value, introduced dynamic criteria mapping (DCM) as a method for eliciting locally-informed, context-sensitive criteria for writing assessments. The impact of DCM on assessment practice is beginning to emerge as more and more writing departments and programs adopt, adapt, or experiment with DCM approaches. For the authors of Organic Writing Assessment, the DCM experience provided not only an authentic assessment of their own programs, but a nuanced language through which they can converse in the always vexing, potentially divisive realm of assessment theory and practice. Of equal interest are the adaptations these writers invented for Broad’s original process, to make DCM even more responsive to local needs and exigencies. Organic Writing Assessment represents an important step in the evolution of writing assessment in higher education. This volume documents the second generation of an assessment model that is regarded as scrupulously consistent with current theory; it shows DCM’s flexibility, and presents an informed discussion of its limits and its potentials.

Organic Writing Assessment: Dynamic Criteria Mapping in Action

Broad, Bob

Alford, Barry

Detweiler, Jane

Estrem, Heidi

Harrington, Susanmarie

McBride, Maureen

Stalions, Eric

Weeden, Scott

Adler-Kassner and O'Neill show writing faculty and administrators how to frame discussions of writing assessment so that they accurately represent research-based practices, and promote assessments that are valid, reliable, and discipline-appropriate. Public discourse about writing instruction is currently driven by ideas of what instructors and programs “need to do,” “should do,” or “are not doing,” and is based on poorly informed concepts of correctness and unfounded claims about a broad decline in educational quality. This discussion needs to be reframed, say Adler-Kassner and O'Neill, to help policymakers understand that the purpose of writing instruction is to help students develop critical thinking, reading, and writing strategies that will form the foundation for their future educations, professional careers, and civic engagement. Reframing Writing Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning is grounded in the best of writing assessment research, and focuses on how to communicate it effectively to publics beyond academe.

Reframing Writing Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning

O'Neill, Peggy

Naming What We Know examines the core principles of knowledge in the discipline of writing studies using the lens of “threshold concepts”—concepts that are critical for epistemological participation in a discipline. The first part of the book defines and describes thirty-seven threshold concepts of the discipline in entries written by some of the field’s most active researchers and teachers, all of whom participated in a collaborative wiki discussion guided by the editors. These entries are clear and accessible, written for an audience of writing scholars, students, and colleagues in other disciplines and policy makers outside the academy. Contributors describe the conceptual background of the field and the principles that run throughout practice, whether in research, teaching, assessment, or public work around writing. Chapters in the second part of the book describe the benefits and challenges of using threshold concepts in specific sites—first-year writing programs, WAC/WID programs, writing centers, writing majors—and for professional development to present this framework in action. Naming What We Know opens a dialogue about the concepts that writing scholars and teachers agree are critical and about why those concepts should and do matter to people outside the field.

Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies

Wardle, Elizabeth

Basic Writing As a Political Act: Public Conversations About Writing and Literacies (Research in the Teaching of Rhetoric & Composition)

This is an empirical study of basic writing in the contemporary academy from the perspective of students as two urban institutions, and from basic writing courses and programs from a variety of colleges and universities. The authors examine perceptions of in-school writing and how basic writing programs have been created and maintained b drawing on basic writing syllabi and program information from a variety of colleges and universities. They look at ways the institution of basic writing an make better pedagogical and political use of students' entering perceptions of their courses, and students' past experiences.

Literature & Fiction

Hampton Pr

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The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing

The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing

Considering Literacy: Reading and Writing- The Educational Experience

Activist WPA, The: Changing Stories About Writing and Writers

The Activist Wpa: Changing Stories about Writing and Writers

Organic Writing Assessment: Dynamic Criteria Mapping in Action

Reframing Writing Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning

Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies

Basic Writing As a Political Act: Public Conversations About Writing and Literacies (Research in the Teaching of Rhetoric & Composition)

Basic Writing As a Political Act: Public Conversations About Writing and Literacies (Research in the Teaching of Rhetoric & Composition)