Twelve Readers Readings: Responding to College Student Writing (Written Language)

How do well-recognized teachers of composition make comments on student writing? What might be learned about teacher response through their example? In Twelve Readers Reading: Responding to College Student Writing, Richard Straub and Ronald F. Lunsford examine the state of the art of responding to student writing, using as case studies the responses 12 teacher-scholars make on a sampling of first-year college student writing. The teachers come from a variety of schools and represent a range of perspectives on the teaching of writing: Chris Anson, Peter Elbow, Anne Gere, Glynda Hull, Richard Larson, Ben McClelland, Frank O'Hare, Jane Peterson, Donald Stewart, Patricia Stock, Tillie Warnock, and Edward White.The book is grounded in recent theory, but it is first of all a practical guide for teachers. In it, the authors display over 60 full sets of commentary, create a rubric for analyzing comments, analyze the 12 readers' responding styles, and identify the common strategies the teachers as a group use in responding to student writing.