
Acts of Teaching
How to Teach Writing: A Text, A Reader, A Narrative, 2nd Edition
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2nd Edition
Published on 1. December 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
544 pages
978-1-59158-517-6 (ISBN)
Description
Carroll and Wilson have taken their successful Acts of Teaching into the 21st Century with this totally revised second edition. While maintaining the best of Acts, Acts II moves the paradigm into the global age. Comprehensive, innovative, and practical, and with forewords by two of the most noted scholars in the field, Janet Emig and Edmund J. Farrell, this text offers educators a powerful approach to teaching writing. Rather than repetitive exercises, it focuses on engagement and interaction so students grapple with words and experiences to make meaning.
In Acts II the writing process and assessment gain a new dimension. Recent research supports its content and strategies while cognitive development and neurological theories, early literacy, inquiry, and writing as a mode of learning across all disciplines and grade levels have been invigorated. Topics include students, shifts and skills for the global age, the writing process, and assessment, three chapters on how to teach grammar within the writing process, collaboration, post writing, and publishing. This book meets the needs of anyone writing or teaching writing. Grades PreK-12.
In Acts II the writing process and assessment gain a new dimension. Recent research supports its content and strategies while cognitive development and neurological theories, early literacy, inquiry, and writing as a mode of learning across all disciplines and grade levels have been invigorated. Topics include students, shifts and skills for the global age, the writing process, and assessment, three chapters on how to teach grammar within the writing process, collaboration, post writing, and publishing. This book meets the needs of anyone writing or teaching writing. Grades PreK-12.
Reviews / Votes
"This updated text focuses on educating teachers with unique ways to engage students in the activity of learning to write....Chapters on how to shape student writing, assess writing, edit paragraphs, publish, and write collaboratively give teachers a broad spectrum of writing knowledge. The book's second half elaborates on the growth and development of the brain as it pertains to learning in adolescents, cognitive theories of learning, and connecting with the writer through reading and research....The samples of student writing and examples of teacher moderated exercises will be a welcome assistance to first time teachers whether it is elementary or middle school." - VOYA "Now in an extensively updated and significantly expanded second edition Acts of Teaching: How To Teach Writing....is a 501-page compendium of instruction on all aspects of the art and craft of teaching aspiring authors how to write effectively regardless of the genre or discipline they are writing in or for....Acts of Teaching is not only very highly recommended as an educational curriculum guide and supplement for the teaching of writing in a college or university level course, it is also invaluable reading for any aspiring writer seeking to become as effective as they can be within the demands of any scientific discipline, literary genre, or commercial enterprise they might find themselves working in." - Wisconsin Bookwatch "This updated text focuses on educating teachers with unique ways to engage students in the activity of learning to write." - VOYAMore details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
ISBN-13
978-1-59158-517-6 (9781591585176)
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Joyce Armstrong Carroll | Edward E. Wilson
Acts of Teaching
How to Teach Writing: A Text, A Reader, A Narrative
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05/1993
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Persons
Joyce Armstrong Carroll, EdD, HLD, is codirector of Abydos Learning International, formerly the New Jersey Writing Project in Texas (NJWPT), with Edward E. Wilson.
Edward E. Wilson is codirector of Abydos Learning International, formerly the New Jersey Writing Project in Texas (NJMPT), with his wife Joyce Armstrong Carroll.
Edward E. Wilson is codirector of Abydos Learning International, formerly the New Jersey Writing Project in Texas (NJMPT), with his wife Joyce Armstrong Carroll.
Content
Foreword to ACTS II by Edmund J. Farrell Foreword to ACTS I by Janet Emig Preface: A Parable Introduction: Our Flattened World Part I: The Process Chapter One: Prewriting Chapter Two: Writing and Organizing Chapter Three: Writing as a Social Act Chapter Four: Grammar and Correcting Chapter Five: Grammar through Revision Chapter Six: Grammar through Reformulation Chapter Seven: Post Writing and Publishing Chapter Eight: Assessment Part II: The Theory and Pedagogy Chapter Nine: Brain Power Chapter Ten: Learning How to Learn Chapter Eleven: Early Literacy Chapter Twelve: Research Chapter Thirteen: Writing as a Mode of Learning Bibliography Appendices Index