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Getting our students to write and write well is a process Tom Scheft explains and explores, offering practical and theoretical guidance, while providing uplifting, thought provoking examples of a writing assignment for students middle grades through master’s level.
An invaluable supplemental text for teacher education programs and in-service programs, Scheft mines his experience working with student writers in public schools and universities.
He also covers:
- the research-backed case for autobiographical, reflective writing
- helping student writers understand and deal with rejection
- honest, practical strategies for dealing with dialect differences.
Professors, English teachers, and students: This book will help enhance writing through time-tested, user-friendly strategies and powerful examples.
Acknowledgments.
Foreword; Clyde Edgerton.
Preface; Tom Scheft.
Chapter 1. Working With Student Writers; Tom Scheft.
Chapter 2. Autobiography in Teacher Preparation: The Internally Persuasive Discourse That Speaks With Authority; Sandy A. Vavra.
Chapter 3. The Autobiographical, Reflective Assignment; Tom Scheft.
Chapter 4. Teacher as Secret Agent; Muri Pugh.
Chapter 5. Gratitude, Generosity, and Community; Jennifer Lombard.
Chapter 6. Confronting the Fear Within; Laura Will.
Chapter 7. Teacher as Scientist, Teacher as Artist; Amanda Albert.
Chapter 8. Reflections on Langston Hughes' Mother to Son; Casey Collins, Carron Carter, and Melissa Davis.
Chapter 9. In the Blood; Joshua Knight.
Chapter 10. The Black Teacher; Marshella Reid.
Chapter 11. Dealing With Death; Sloane Akos.
Chapter 12. A Renewed Sense of Life; Jayne Dorfman.
Chapter 13. The Power of Imagination; Taheera Blount.
Chapter 14. Flying Lessons; Amanda Riley Smith.
Chapter 15. The Power of Unconditional Love; Elwood Robinson.
Chapter 16. Testing the Sleeping Giant; Pamela George.
Appendix.
Chapter 17. Confronting Stereotyping: Understanding Why We Do It, Considering What to Do About It; Tom Scheft.
Chapter 18. Helping Student Writers Understand and Deal With Rejection; Tom Scheft.
Chapter 19. Dealing With Dialect Differences: Honest Concerns and Practical Approaches; Tom Scheft.
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