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FAQ: What are top 5 books or articles that new writing teachers should read?
(List compiled by Thomas Pace, via WPA-L, November 2004)
Books/Articles for First-Time Teachers
- Mike Rose, Lives on the Boundary
- Ann Berthoff, Making of Meaning
- Erika Lindemann, A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers
- Nancy Sommers, “Responding to Student Writing.”
- Lisa Delpit, “The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People’s Children.”
- Linda Brodkey’, “Writing on the Bias”
- Peter Elbow:
- “Ranking, Evaluating, and Liking: Sorting out Three Levels of Judgment”
- “Reflections on Academic Discourse”
- Writing Without Teachers
- Writing With Power
- Everyone Can Write
- James McDonald, ed. Allyn and Bacon Sourcebook for College Writing Teachers. 2 ed.
- David Bartholomae, “Inventing the University”
- George Hillocks, Jr. Teaching Writing as Reflective Practice
- James D. Williams. Preparing to Teach Writing : Research, Theory, and Practice
- Lisa Ede and Andrea Lunsford, eds. The Selected Essays of Robert J. Connors
- Rosss Winterowd, Composition in the Rhetorical Tradition.
- Noguchi, Grammar and the Teaching of Writing: Limits and Possibilities
- David Jolliffe, et al eds. Against the Grain: A Volume in Honor of Maxine Hairston
- David Durst, Collision Course: Conflict, Negotiation, and Learning in College Composition
- John Bean, Engaging Ideas
- Richard Haswell, “Minimal Marking”
- Kathyrn Rosser Raign, The Harcourt Brace Guide to Teaching First-Year Composition
- Donald Murray, The Craft of Revision.
- Lad Tobin, Writing Relationships
- Jim Berlin, Rhetorics, Poetics and Cultures
- Diane Roen, et al eds, The New St. Martin’s Guide to Teaching Writing: Strategies for Teaching First-Year Composition
- John McPeck. Critical Thinking and Education
- Charles Bazerman,
- Brian Huot and Pamela Takayoshi, Teaching Writing With Computers
- Gail Hawisher and Cynthia Selfe, Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technology
- Meyer and Smith, The Practical Tutor
- Joe Harris, A Teaching Subject
- Dan Morgan, “Ethical Issues Raised by Students’ Personal Writing”
- Wayne Booth, “The Rhetorical Stance”
- Kenneth Bruffee, Short Course in Writing
- John Ruskiewicz, Well Bound Words
- Alice Horning, Revision Revisited
- T.R. Johnson, A Rhetoric of Pleasure: Prose Style and Today’s Composition Classroom
- James Seitz, Motives for Metaphor
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