First Semester : Graduate Students, Teaching Writing, and the Challenge of Middle Ground.

First Semester : Graduate Students, Teaching Writing, and the Challenge of Middle Ground.

Jessica Restaino offers a snapshot of the first semester experiences of graduate student writing teachers as they navigate predetermined course syllabi and materials, the pressures of grading, the influences of foundational scholarship, and their own classroom authority. With rich qualitative data g...

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Main Author: Restaino, Jessica
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2012.
©2012
Series:Studies in writing & rhetoric.
Subjects:
English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching.
English teachers > Training of.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching
English teachers > Training of
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Arendt, Writing Teachers, and Beginnings; 2. Labor and Endlessness: Necessity and Consumption in the First Semester; 3. Teachers-as-Students: Work and Action in the Middle Space; 4. Thinking What We Are Doing: Knowledge Making in the Trenches; Appendix A: Recruitment Letter; Appendix B: Orientation Survey; Notes; Works Cited and Consulted; Index; Author Biography; CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric; Other Books in the CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric Series; Back Cover.

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