Acts of Teaching How to Teach Writing, Second Edition
A Text
A Reader
A Narrative
Foreword for First Edition by Janet Emig
Foreword for Second Edition by Edmund J. Farrell

Subjects:

• Education » Language Arts and Reading

Reviews:

• 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 March 2008

• Endorsement From Cris Tovani, author of I Read It But Don't Get It and Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?: This gem of a book not only identifies qualities of good writing, it also shows writers how to produce quality. Carroll and Wilson 'get it.' To write well is difficult. Yet hard work can yield joyful results."
• Endorsement From Will Hobbs, author of Bearstone, Jason's Gold, and Crossing the Wire.: When it comes to teaching writing, Carroll and Wilson have written the 'go-to' book. The new and updated Acts of Teaching is a cause for celebration. Keep it handy--you'll find it inexhaustibly practical and effective. And no wonder: this book is the creation of two great theorists whose lifework has been shoulder-to-shoulder with classroom teachers.
• Endorsement From Katherine Mosby, award-winning novelist and instructor at New York University.: Joyce Armstrong Carroll and Edward E. Wilson's book is full of the insight, scholarship and practical advice they have gleaned in their many years in the field, teaching writing and teaching the teaching of writing, delivered with warmth and humor and understanding.
• Endorsement From Fernando Castillo, principal of Donna High School in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas.: The 2002 'No Child Left Behind' Act has forced educators to reflect on what is working in classrooms around the nation, and what will best help students to face the challenges of the twenty-first century. Joyce Carroll, Ed.D,, H.L.D. and Edward Wilson in their book, Acts of Teaching, Second Edition, provide invaluable insight into what classrooms in the 21st century should look like in terms of writing and reading. Acts of Teaching II equips teachers to teach writing in a way that students get excited about writing, and for visionary teachers and administrators, that is truly leaving no child behind.
• Endorsement From Judy Wallis, Ed.D., Language Arts Director, Department of School Improvement & Support, Spring Branch ISD, Texas.: Acts of Teaching offers teachers of writing and those who support them a comprehensive resource that includes expansive research and solid pedagogy. In its first edition, it served as an indispensable guide to educators. In its second edition, it becomes an essential text. Teachers and supervisors will make it a constant companion in their work. It is the right book at the right time--a time when educators recognize quality writing instruction as a key to not only improved student performance but also enlightened thinking.

Table of Contents:

• 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

PDF Catalogs:

LU School Library Spring 2008.pdf