Teaching Writing

Catalog description

The purpose of this course is to introduce and immerse students in writing, offering opportunities to explore what being a writer and teaching writing looks like, feels like, and sounds like in the 21st century, and at the K-12 level. This course will examine both the theory and practice of the composing process and the teaching of writing in schools. It will also consider the multiple ways in which writers compose (think technology), writing’s connection to reading and other language arts topics, like speaking and listening, and word study. Specific foci will include the rhetorical modes, state standards and assessment, instructional strategies, writing in the disciplines, public, professional and business writing, the writing conference, plagiarism citation, and working with exceptional writers. Seminar participants will also design and implement writing lessons for real student writers. This should be practical, in other words.