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Practicum in Language and Rhetoric - Coggle Diagram
Practicum in Language and Rhetoric
WHY?
Why Teach Writing?
Article: "Why Teach Writing" Lindemann, A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers
Writing as Economic Power: "If we examine, together with our students, the kinds of writing required in jobs that interest them, they will discover important reasons to improve their [writing] skills" (5).
Writing as Social Necessity
Writing As Knowing: "Writing permits us to understand not only the world vut also the self. We discover who we are by writing. College students, for example, write to acquire particular ways of communicating ideas
as
historians, economists, educators, engineers" (7).
Writing Teachers Confront Paradoxes
There is a constant pull between what we know to be true about linguistic diversity and honoring linguistic expression, and the cultural collateral that 'standard' versions of language hold.
Writing teachers should realize that teaching writing involves BOTH discipline and imagination.
We must resist the urge to define writing and the teaching of writing too narrowly.
MY TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
Encouraging Risk-Taking - Failing is Learning
From
BIAW
: "Myth: Failure is Not an Option" - author Allison Carr encourages teachers to not only normalize failure in the classroom, but encourage and celebrate it. Urge students to
fail spectacularly
Honoring Diversity
Equitable Teaching
Cultivating an encouraging, diverse, and positive classroom culture
Student-Centered Teaching
Instruction that is relevant to students' needs, interests, and lives
Instruction that asks students to actively engage with material
Dynamic, Flexible Teaching that Meets students where they are
THE GRAMMAR THING
Standard Language Ideology
Grammar/Grammars
Approaching Grammar in Instruction
WRITING PROCESSES
History of the Writing Process
Lindemann's "What Does the Process Involve? - writing has historically been categorized by the following categories: prewriting-->writing-->rewriting. While we regognize the limitations a rigid process definition pose, novice writers still prescribe to this method and are largely taught this way.
Traditional "Writing Process" = linear; Prewriting-->Drafting-->Editing/Revising-->Publishing
Revision as a Part of the Writing Process
Experienced vs. Novice Writers
Nancy Sommers, "Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Writers";
Novice Writers
consider revision to be surface level error correction and word replacement while
Experienced Writers
consider revision to be related to more complex factors such as concision, relating ideas clearly, organizing information, etc.
Writing Processes Conceptual Metaphors
Writing as throwing clay
Writing as running errands
writing as combining ingredients to make a jam
writing process as entering a conversation
Writing process as creating a lego contsruction
FEEDBACK AND ASSESSMENT
Plagiarism
Feedback
Less is More
?
BIAW
"When it comes to Written feedback, more is better" by Muriel Davis suggests that leaving more written feedback is ineffective in improving student writing.
Written feedback vs. Writing Conferences
Peer vs. Instructor feedback