Teaching With Student Texts: Essays Toward an Informed Practice

Introduction

Utah State University Press Logan, UT 84322© 2010 Utah State University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Cover calligraphy and design by Barbara Yale-Read ISBN: 978-0-87421-785-8 (paper) ISBN: 978-0-87421-786-5 (e-book) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Teaching with student texts : essays toward an informed practice / edited by Joseph Harris, John D. Miles, Charles Paine. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-87421-785-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-87421-786-5 (e-book) 1. Report writing--Study and teaching (Higher)--Evaluation. 2. Teachers--In-service training. 3. Teaching. I. Harris, Joseph (Joseph D.) II. Miles, John Dodge. III. Paine, Charles. PE1404.T398 2010 808’.0420711--dc22 2010015479 To students, whose writing drives the work of our field co nTenTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Joseph Harris, John D. Miles, and Charles Paine o ne valui ng S Tuden T T exT S 1 Re-Valuing Student Writing 9 Bruce Horner 2 Revealing Our Values: Reading Student Texts with Colleagues in High School and College 24 Nicole B. Wallack 3 “What Do We Want in This Paper?” Generating Criteria Collectively 35 Chris M. Anson, Matthew Davis, and Domenica Vilhotti 4 Teaching the Rhetoric of Writing Assessment 46 Asao B. Inoue T wo ci rculaT i ng S T uden T T exT S 5 Ethics, Student Writers, and the Use of Student Texts to Teach 60 Paul V. Anderson and Heidi A. McKee 6 Reframing Student Writing in Writing Studies Composition Classes 78 Patrick Bruch and Thomas Reynolds 7 Students Write to Students about Writing 88 Laurie McMillan 8 The Low-Stakes, Risk-Friendly Message-Board Text 96 Scott Warnock 9 Product as Process: Teaching Publication to Students 108 Karen McDonnell and Kevin Jefferson 10 Students’ Texts beyond the Classroom: Young Scholars in Writing’s Challenges to College Writing Instruction 118 Doug Downs, Heidi Estrem, and Susan Thomas 11 The Figure of the Student in Composition Textbooks 129 Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori and Patricia Donahue T hree c hangi ng claSSro o M P racT i ceS 12 Workshop and Seminar 145 Joseph Harris 13 What Do We Talk about When We Talk about Workshops? Charting the First Five Weeks of a First-Year Writing Course 154 Maggie Debelius 14 Texts to Be Worked on and Worked with: Encouraging Students to See Their Writing as Theoretical 163 Chris Warnick 15 Writing to Learn, Reading to Teach: Student Texts in the Pedagogy Seminar 171 Margaret J. Marshall 16 The Writer/Text Connection: Understanding Writers’ Relationships to their Writing 181 Muriel Harris 17 Learning from Coauthoring: Composing Texts Together in the Composition Classroom 190 Michele Eodice and Kami Day 18 Inquiry, Collaboration, and Reflection in the Student (Text)-Centered Multimodal Writing Course 200 Scott L. Rogers, Ryan Trauman, and Julia E. Kiernan 19 Workshopping to Practice Scientific Terms 210 Anne Ellen Geller and Frank R. Cantelmo 20 Bringing Outside Texts In and Inside Texts Out 220 Jane Mathison Fife 21 Embracing Uncertainty: The Kairos of Teaching with Student Texts 229 Rolf Norgaard Afterword: Notes toward an Informed Practice 243 Charles Paine and John D. Miles References 256 Index 264 Contributors 268 acKnowledg MenTS This project began with a problem we three editors faced as mentors of new writing teachers: How could we help them use student texts in the writing classroom? But this initial vision soon evolved into something much larger, more interesting, and more useful—a book that we hope will inform the practice of any teacher who teaches with student texts. (It has certainly informed ours.) Like many such projects, this one has required far more time and effort than we anticipated but has also been far more fun and rewarding than we could have imagined. We are of course very pleased to see this work reach an audience but a little sorry to see this deeply collaborative effort come to an end. There are many people we need to thank for making this project so rewarding and for helping this book find its vision and direction. First, we thought we should thank the builders of web-based collaboration tools like Google Docs, Skype, and others. This collaboration— involving over 30 editors, contributors, and readers scattered across the United States and beyond—would not have been possible without...