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Teaching Lives: Essays & Stories

by Wendy Bishop
Utah State University Press, 1997
Paper: 978-0-87421-224-2
Library of Congress Classification PE1404.B575 1997
Dewey Decimal Classification 808.04207

TOC

  • Contents 
    • Preface: 
    • Why Write About Teaching Lives?
    • Part I: 
    • Composing Ourselves in the Writing Classroom
      • 1. 
      • Writing Teachers and Writing Process: Combining Theory and Practice
      • 2. 
      • Helping Peer Writing Groups Succeed
      • 3. 
      • Designing A Writing Portfolio Evaluation System
      • 4. 
      • Co-authoring Changes the Writing Classroom: Students Authorizing the Self, Authoring Together
      • 5. 
      • Teaching “Grammar for Writers” in a Process Workshop Classroom
    • Part II: 
    • Composing Ourselves as Readers
      • 6. 
      • The Literary Text and the Writing Classroom
      • 7. 
      • Teaching Writing Teachers to Teach Reading for Writing
      • 8. 
      • “Traveling through the Dark”: Teachers and Students Reading and Writing Together
    • Part III: 
    • Composing Ourselves as Department Members and Administrators
      • 9. 
      • Learning Our Own Ways to Situate Composition and Feminist Studies in the English Department
      • 10. 
      • Writing Is/And Therapy?: Raising Questions About Writing Classrooms and Writing Program Administration
      • 11. 
      • You Can Take the Girl Out of the Writing Center But You Can't Take the Writing Center Out of the Girl: Reflections on the Sites We Call Centers
      • 12. 
      • Let Me Tell You About the Rocks
    • Part IV: 
    • Composing Ourselves as Researchers
      • 13. 
      • Students Stories and the Variable Gaze of Composition Research
      • 14. 
      • Attitudes and Expectations: How Theory in the Graduate Student (Teacher) Complicates the English Curriculum
      • 15. 
      • Having Been There: The Second Ethnography and On
    • Part V: 
    • Composing Ourselves as (Creative) Writers
      • 16. 
      • Crossing the Lines: On Creative Composition and Composing Creative Writing
      • 17. 
      • On Learning to Like Teaching Creative Writing
      • 18. 
      • Poetry as a Therapeutic Process: Realigning Art and the Unconscious
      • 19. 
      • What We (Might) Write About When We Write (Autobiographical) Non-Fiction
      • 20. 
      • The Shape of Fact
    • Part VI: 
    • Composing Ourselves Through Teaching
      • 21. 
      • If Winston Weathers Would Just Write to Me On E-Mail: A Response to David Bartholomae and Peter Elbow
      • 22. 
      • Letting the Boundaries Draw Themselves: What Theory and Practice Have Been Trying to Tell Us—An Exchange (with Hans Ostrom)
      • 23. 
      • Teaching Lives: Thoughts on Reweaving Our Spirits
    • Works Cited
    • Index
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