At the Point of Need: Teaching Basic and ESL Writers

Type

Book

Authors

Marie Nelson

ISBN 10

0867092653

ISBN 13

9780867092653

Tags

Introductory & Beginning, Rhetoric, English as a Second Language, Writing, Education Theory, Education, Creative Writing & Composition

Description

At the Point of Need is a richly detailed account of the experiences of teachers, tutors, and students over a five-year period in a university writing center, whose main mission was to enable basic and ESL writers to handle college writing demands. By and large, it's a success story, with implications and applications far beyond the purview of that particular writing center. Essentially, it wasn't broad knowledge of teaching or writing that these teachers and basic writers needed. What they needed was permission and encouragement to evaluate their own work; a way to evaluate it for themselves while including feedback from others; peers to help them brainstorm things to try when they got stuck; support for trying the unconventional; and freedom from constant impersonal assessment. - from Amzon

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