Course Title:
Writing and the Teaching of Writing
Course Description:
Based on the premise that the key to teaching writing is teaching revision strategies. Participants look at the research studies of elementary, secondary, and college students and examine manuscripts of professional writers like E.B. White. Focuses on both the theory and practice of revising. Covers understanding students’ assumptions about the writing/revising process; teaching revision strategies; using student writing to teach revision; responding to student writing within the context of revising; and analyzing personal revision strategies. Explores how participants can use what they know about their own revising strategies to teach revision. Usually given only through the Institute on Writing and Teaching at Martha’s Vineyard.
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Summer 2 Offering:
None
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