ERIC Number: ED461887
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1999
Pages: 167
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0896-3592
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The Quarterly of the National Writing Project, 1999.
Loofbourrow, Peggy Trump, Ed.; Peterson, Art, Ed.
Quarterly of the National Writing Project, v21 n1-4 1999
Articles in this publication address the writing process, teaching writing, and research on the teaching of writing, and take the form of personal experience or opinion, or explore the work of others who have contributed to the field. Articles in the first issue of this volume include: "From Grief, Poetry: Expressive Writings from the Westside Tragedy" (Robert Lamm); "Adolescent Writing Paragraph by Paragraph" (Bonnie Faiman); "Personal Memory and Fictional Character" (Kim Stafford); "Sustaining Urgency" (Jan Isenhour); "Everyday Wordcraft" (Helen Collins Sitler); "Grammar...Again" (Edwin Epps); "Teaching Grammar in Context: One Approach" (Harriet Williams); and "Smartboards and Other Smart Solutions to Computer Access" (Patricia Fitzsimmons-Hunter and Charles Moran). Articles in the second issue include: "They Will Choose To Learn: An Alternative to the Lock-Step Classroom" (Jon Appleby); "Just Give Me a Chance" (Richard Mann); "Four Principles Toward Teaching the Craft of Revision" (Mark Farrington); "Teaching the Most Important Things" (Don Gallehr); "Cat Watching: Six Easy Steps to Classroom Poetry" (Scott Peterson); "Partial Successes and Limited Failures: Recognizing the Dissonances in Our Teacherly Talk" (Jane Greer); and "Assessing Computers for Writing: Stepping Back To Move Forward" (Stephen Marcus). Articles in the third issue include: "The Only New Thing under the Sun: 25 Years of the National Writing Project" (Sheridan Blau); "Welcome to Measurement, Inc." (David Glovin); "Where's the Beef? Mississippi's Tech-Prep Initiative in Action" (John Dorroh);"You and Me and a Book Makes Three: Students Write Collaborative Book Reviews with Adult Reading Buddies" (Bernadette Lambert); "Building a Story: The Art of Narrative" (Marilyn Bates); and "Writing Workshop and Real-World Learning: A Deweyian Perspective" (Jo-Anne Kerr). Articles in the fourth issue include: "Puny Poetry Meets Its Match" (Gerri Ruckel and Jim Horrell); "I Was a Journal-Topic Junkie" (Anna Collins Trest); "No Excuses: An Interview with Eugene Garcia" (Art Peterson); "Revising Words, Revising Worlds" (Greta Vollmer); "Annotated Bibliography on Teaching English Language Learners" (Norma Mota-Altman); "A Personal Bibliographic Essay" (Marian M. Mohr and Marion S. MacLean); and "Drawing: Another Path to Understanding" (Theresa Manchey). (RS)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grammar, Journal Writing, Process Approach (Writing), Program Descriptions, Revision (Written Composition), Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Writing Workshops
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Publication Type: Collected Works - Serials
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Language: English
Sponsor: Department of Education, Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: National Writing Project, Berkeley, CA.
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