In this article we provide a "portrait" of an exemplary writing teacher and the social construction of authority he established with students in two courses. The portrait demonstrates that teacher authority is most essentially a form of professional authority granted by students who affirm the teacher's expertise, self-confidence, and…

A literature review reveals limited information regarding the modeling of authentic writing practices by teacher educators for their students. This study examines the effect of the author's modeling processes as evidenced by education students' assessments of his courses. The author analyzed data using a grounded approach to document their…

This article examines the challenges of teaching basic writing today as students come to the classroom with the basic fluency of digital natives but have the same need for learning writing and critical thinking skills that has traditionally marked basic writers. While most basic writers are adept at accessing information digitally, they are not as…

Providing feedback is one of the foreign language writing teacher's most important tasks (Ferris, 2007). However there is less certainty about the techniques that should be used (K. Hyland & F. Hyland, 2006). This article reports on research that investigated the effects of two types of teacher feedback, on-tape and written, and of the absence…

Offers a critique of C. H. Knoblauch and Lil Brannon's "Rhetorical Traditions and the Teaching of Writing" focusing on three language constructions that operate in the book: (1) dichotomy of the mechanical and organic, (2) use of assertions and evidence, and (3) the removal of Plato from any relationship with rhetoric except an…

The article examines the old and new rhetoric in teaching children to write and notes the infusion of writing instruction into all areas of the curriculum. (CL)

Provides background on poet, fiction writer, and teacher Alan Ziegler. (FL)

This textbook presents a third-grade composition course stressing the different forms of language exercises--letters, narratives, descriptions, and expositions. This series of books aims to help the teacher by providing a systematic arrangement of subject-matter, thus saving the labor of searching for suitable material and, at the same time,…

Recounts the inspiration and shows the results of an assignment to design and construct devices that would enable students to literally draw with their heads. (JL)

Points out parallels between running and writing. (JL)

Describes a two-part approach to teaching the student research paper that encourages students to make a science of developing research gathering techniques and an art of blending the gathered materials with a perspective that will make the paper more than just a summary of facts. The approach uses biography as a model for research. (HTH)

Examines four college composition textbooks that articulate current-traditional rhetoric to show the tacit paradigmatic assumptions found in them. Considers how the texts treat reality, the writer, the audience, and the discourse. (TJ)

Notes that, by using still photographs, teachers can encourage their students to produce more imaginative compositions. Includes examples of the use of pictures to give students the impetus they need to begin expressing themselves with greater enthusiasm. (FL)

Fifteen writing instructors report their favorite ways of getting students to write. (RL)

Muses on the power and intelligence of Henry Giroux as a composition theorist and pedagogue. Recounts Giroux's presentation at the 1993 Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition and his categorizing of the "power dynamics" present at most institutions. Opts for "expressivist" pedagogy. (PA)