Proposes that there have been fewer spokespersons and fewer articles published by writers who teach than expected given the strength of the social-constructionist marginalization and the dismissal of expressivists. Argues the need for a teacher of writing to also be a writer and considers many viewpoints of this argument. Suggests reflective…

Talk is central to what writers do--it is the collaborative activity that underlies most, if not all, individual acts of composing. Writers compose through inner speech while walking, by speaking aloud at the word processor, when discussing a work-in-progress, or as they share ideas during conferences in writing centers and classrooms. But this…

Analyzes college writing teachers' dialog learning logs. Finds that groups of teachers developed particular learning foci. Discusses response patterns in log writing and in group interactions. (SR)

Those in composition studies know, experientially, that teaching informs their lives and results in knowledge, but they also know that English Studies culture(s) continue to valorize expert knowledge over community knowledge, empirical and scholarly research over alternate methods of constructing inquiry, and theory over practice. Although…

Comparisons of writing instruction to therapy often focus on the teacher and student interaction, yet the analogy is necessarily more extended and complicated. Compositionists should be paying attention to issues of affect and providing teachers and program administrators with a course of study that includes introductions to personality theory,…

This book explores the complex world of the college writing teacher at work and is intended as a balance to current composition research that focuses almost exclusively on student writers, often ignoring the role the teacher plays in classroom development. The book contains data elicited from observation, surveys, and interviews with college…

Writing instructors and students alike need to cross the line between composition and creative writing far more often than they do. As students indicate in their essays, composition is often viewed as an unpleasant task, while creative writing is perceived as more enjoyable. Among teachers, creative writing instructors are phobic of critical…