2010 James N. Britton Award winner from the Conference on English Education (CEE) of the National Council of Teachers of English. This work is an important contribution to the field of writing instruction, but it is also a great read. The advice is practical, the resources helpful, and the discussion thought provoking. Fleischer and Andrew-Vaughan are wonderful guides on the journey through the Unfamiliar Genre Project...they invite us in, earn our trust, and then support us as we take on a new and unfamiliar challenge. Enjoy the journey! Heather Lattimer Author of Thinking Through Genre If genre study isn't in your curriculum and standards documents, it's likely to be soon. But which genres are the most useful for students to study? And how do you find time to cover them all? Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone answers these questions. It shows how immersing students in one genre that they aren't familiar with helps them understand the concept of genre in general and strengthens their reading and writing. In Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone Cathy Fleischer and Sarah Andrew-Vaughan present the Unfamiliar Genre Project. Through this extended reading and writing sequence, your students will discover the skills to be savvy in any genre, and you'll find ways to support them. The Unfamiliar Genre Project helps you: <ul>
<li>develop students' thinking about writing fundamentals such as purpose, audience, form, topic selection, and word choice </li> <li>support adolescents' test-taking abilities by increasing their awareness of the genre characteristics of test writing </li> <li>fully engage students by connecting school writing to their outside interests </li> <li>truly integrate the English curriculum by studying genre from the points of view of both readers and writers. </li> </ul>
Fleischer and Andrew-Vaughan give you highly detailed, specific ideas for teaching the Unfamiliar Genre Project. Their organizational structures, lessons, and variations for classrooms in different settings will help you plan and implement the project with ease. Read Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone and teach the Unfamiliar Genre Project. You'll soon discover how to boost students' achievement in every genre as they study just one.

Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone: Helping Students Navigate Unfamiliar Genres

Reference

Fleischer, Cathy

Andrew-Vaughan, Sarah

Words, Language & Grammar

Heinemann

Once, teachers who knew their content area and knew how to teach it were respected as professionals. Now there is an additional type of competency required: in addition to content and pedagogical knowledge, educators need advocacy skills. In this groundbreaking collection, literacy educators describe how they are redefining what it means to be a teaching professional. Teachers share how they are trying to change the conversation surrounding literacy and literacy instruction by explaining to colleagues, administrators, parents, and community members why they teach in particular research-based ways, so often contradicted by mandated curricula and standardized assessments. Teacher educators also share how they are introducing an advocacy approach to preservice and practicing teachers, helping prepare teachers for this new professionalism. Both groups practice what the authors call ?everyday advocacy?: the day-to-day actions teachers are taking to change the public narrative surrounding schools, teachers, and learning. ?

Everyday Advocacy: Teachers Who Change the Literacy Narrative

Education & Teaching

Garcia, Antero

Schools & Teaching

W.W.Norton&Company

This story of a teacher's growth as a researcher in the classroom reflects the larger issues of the debate about this kind of research during the last decade. In Composing Teacher-Research the author provides a much needed critical look at the teacher-research movement by recounting her own experiences over the past decade. Informed by readings in a number of disciplines and by her own classroom practice, Fleischer documents the shifts and changes she made as a teacher when she took on the additional role of researcher. The book presents four case studies of classrooms and students, at both the high school and college level, focusing on the ways students see their own literacy in and out of school. Fleischer not only reproduces these case studies as they were written at various points in her journey, but provides commentary through pre- and post-scripts in which she points out particular issues of concern for those who practice classroom research: what it means to represent others’ experiences, how we can create research which is at the same time ethical and pedagogically sound, how the stakes for being a teacher-researcher have changed in a postmodern world.

Composing Teacher-Research: A Prosaic History (S U N Y SERIES IN TEACHER PREPARATION AND DEVELOPMENT)

Science & Math

Mathematics

State Univ of New York Pr

Composing Teacher-Research: A Prosaic History (Suny Series, Teacher Preparation and Development)

Becoming a Writing Researcher

Becoming a Writing Researcher effectively guides students through the stages of conducting qualitative writing research, from the initial step of seeing themselves as researchers, to identifying research questions, selecting appropriate tools, conducting the research, and interpreting and reporting the findings. Authors Ann M. Blakeslee and Cathy Fleischer describe various qualitative methods and provide readers with examples of real-world applications. Exercises and activities, as well as anecdotes from both novice and seasoned researchers, serve to acquaint readers thoroughly with the practice of carrying out research for scholarly or professional purposes. The textbook introduces students to research methods in a gradual and contextualized manner. Each chapter opens with a discussion of general issues regarding a particular portion of the research process, followed by a consideration of the various physical, conceptual, and strategic tools that allow a beginning researcher to conduct that part of the process. Sections within each chapter also cover: <ul>
<li>personal and theoretical perspectives and biases that influence specific stages of the research process</li> <li>ethical issues associated with phases of the research process</li> <li>the identity, ethos, and experiences of the researcher.</li>
</ul>
Becoming a Writing Researcher is an essential text for all novice researchers, and is well suited for use in graduate-level research methods courses in composition and technical communication. It is also ideal for use in other disciplines with strong qualitative methodology research programs, including education.

Politics & Social Sciences

Blakeslee, Ann

Blakeslee, Ann M.

Social Sciences

Routledge

Concerned about your teen's reading and writing habits? Confused by media hype surrounding testing and standards and what that means for your own son or daughter? Wondering what you can do to help your teen be a stronger reader and writer? In today's world, students need to be able to read and write confidently and competently. Parents who are well informed about issues of literacy can help their teens reach that goal. In _Reading and Writing and Teens: A Parent's Guide to Adolescent Literacy_, Cathy Fleischer, an English professor and mother of teenagers, helps navigate through the sometimes overwhelming messages you hear about adolescents and literacy. In clear and compelling language, she explains what current research tells us about reading, writing, technology, and standards and testing and gives specific suggestions for what you can do to help your son or daughter succeed, both in school and outside the classroom. Offering advice from a host of experts in adolescent literacy, this book helps answer real questions from parents across the country about how to best support their teens as readers and writers.

Reading and Writing and Teens: A Parent’s Guide to Adolescent Literacy

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

xi 206p paperback, bibliography, index, new

Teachers Organizing for Change: Making Literacy Learning Everybody's Business

Natl. Council of Teachers of English

Product Description \nBecoming a Writing Researcher effectively guides students through the stages of conducting qualitative writing research, from the initial step of seeing themselves as researchers, to identifying research questions, selecting appropriate methodological tools, conducting the research, and interpreting and reporting findings. Exercises and activities, as well as anecdotes and examples from both novice and seasoned researchers, serve to acquaint readers thoroughly with the practice of carrying out research for scholarly or professional purposes. 
This second edition introduces students to research methods in a gradual and contextualized manner. Each chapter offers a discussion of a particular portion of the research process, followed by consideration of physical, conceptual, and strategic tools that allow a master’s level researcher to conduct that part of the research. Sections within each chapter also cover issues of stance and positionality that impact the researcher and the resulting research. 
Becoming a Writing Researcher, second edition, is an essential text for all novice researchers and is particularly well suited for use in graduate-level research methods courses in writing studies and technical communications. It is also ideal for use in other disciplines with strong qualitative methodology research programs, including education. 
 Review 
"Becoming a Writing Researcher immerses less experienced researchers in two critically important aspects for learning: deep identity work and extensive practice with and reflection on research strategies. It is practical in all the best ways: grounded in the lived experience of graduate student researchers, full of purposeful exercises and reflective activities, carefully attuned to the needs of newer researchers in Writing Studies. My students are far better off for having used this thoughtful guide for their own projects." -- Heidi Estrom, Boise State University 
"An approachable but remarkably in-depth guide to qualitative research in writing. The case studies enable readers to imagine themselves becoming real researchers, and multiple examples illustrate a variety of approaches rather than just one 'right' way." -- Cheryl Geisler, Simon Fraser University, Canada 
 About the Author 
Ann Blakeslee is a professor of written communication at Eastern Michigan University, where she directs the Office of Campus and Community Writing, which houses the Writing across the Curriculum Program, the University Writing Center, and the Eastern Michigan Writing Project.\nCathy Fleischer is a professor of English education and written communication at Eastern Michigan University, where she co-directs the Eastern Michigan Writing Project and serves as Faculty Associate for the Office of Campus and Community Writing. She also serves as editor for the Principles in Practice Imprint for the National Council of Teachers of English.

Becoming a Writing Researcher effectively guides students through the stages of conducting qualitative writing research, from the initial step of seeing themselves as researchers, to identifying research questions, selecting appropriate methodological tools, conducting the research, and interpreting and reporting findings. Exercises and activities, as well as anecdotes and examples from both novice and seasoned researchers, serve to acquaint readers thoroughly with the practice of carrying out research for scholarly or professional purposes. This second edition introduces students to research methods in a gradual and contextualized manner. Each chapter offers a discussion of a particular portion of the research process, followed by consideration of physical, conceptual, and strategic tools that allow a master’s level researcher to conduct that part of the research. Sections within each chapter also cover issues of stance and positionality that impact the researcher and the resulting research. Becoming a Writing Researcher, second edition, is an essential text for all novice researchers and is particularly well suited for use in graduate-level research methods courses in writing studies and technical communications. It is also ideal for use in other disciplines with strong qualitative methodology research programs, including education.

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Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone: Helping Students Navigate Unfamiliar Genres

Everyday Advocacy: Teachers Who Change the Literacy Narrative

Composing Teacher-Research: A Prosaic History (S U N Y SERIES IN TEACHER PREPARATION AND DEVELOPMENT)

Composing Teacher-Research: A Prosaic History (Suny Series, Teacher Preparation and Development)

Becoming a Writing Researcher

Reading and Writing and Teens: A Parent’s Guide to Adolescent Literacy

Teachers Organizing for Change: Making Literacy Learning Everybody's Business

Becoming a Writing Researcher

Becoming a Writing Researcher