Teaching Students to Write

When it was first published Teaching Students to Write earned a reputationfor doing just that - helping teachers and prospective teachers engage theirstudents in honing their writing skills. It was, and is, a student-centered,research-based text that combines scholarly theory with practical pedagogy andoffers a rich diversity of strategies to meet the students' diverse needs.Taking into account the explosion of scholarly inquiry and research oncomposition that has occurred since the first edition, Neman providesclassroom-tested strategies for such tricky pedagogy as establishing anaccepting atmosphere, motivating revision, working with nonstandard dialectedstudents, and setting up experiential learning opportunities. She also suggestsproven approaches for conferencing, collaborative learning, fair assessment, andfor incorporating such whole-language concepts as current literary theory intothe writing program. The text offers a variety of workable methods of teachingstudents to write expository essays, rhetorical analyses, academic researchpapers, personal narratives, short stories, and poems.Complete with Teaching Strategies sidebars, duplicable Student Guidelines, andquestions that encourage discussion and essay-writing at the end of eachchapter, the updated edition of this invigorating text will help teachers givetheir students the confidence and skills they need to write compellingprose.