Prompt: List five terms you don't quite know yet how to define from our final keywords list. Next identity three in other students' blogs you do know how to define, and comment on them in those blogs.
Part One: Terms I'm Not 100% On
Donald Murray
Maxine Hairston
Robert Connors
Scottish Tradition
Writing Assessment (having trouble narrowing this down)
Leah! I just wrote about Maxine over on Travis's blog, write beneath your information on Lester Faigley...
ReplyDeleteIn the 1980s, she wrote "The Winds of Change" about the major "paradigm shift" in the teaching of writing. She's all about research-based approaches to teaching composition and writing as a process. She sees writing as recursive and not linear.
She also teaches at UT Austin. Do you think she and Lester are buds?
Awesome, thanks!
DeleteI hope so! And I hope they are office mates who bust out DJ Khaled every once in awhile too.
I'm not sure what Dr. Rice wants us to focus on with Donald Murray, but he is one of my favorite Comp theory people after Peter Elbow, even if he does seem to believe very much in process theory. Donald Murray believes in conference teaching. He suggests that the real improvement in writing happens when teachers and students discuss the writing one-on-one. Murray also believes strongly in the importance of the individual writer and encourages writers to express themselves honestly without fear.
ReplyDeleteAwesome, thanks MaryAnn! And that sounds interesting, I'm going to read up on him.
DeleteI'm not sure what Dr. Rice wants us to focus on with Donald Murray, but he is one of my favorite Comp theory people after Peter Elbow, even if he does seem to believe very much in process theory. Donald Murray believes in conference teaching. He suggests that the real improvement in writing happens when teachers and students discuss the writing one-on-one. Murray also believes strongly in the importance of the individual writer and encourages writers to express themselves honestly without fear.
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