First semester : graduate students, teaching writing, and the challenge of middle ground / Jessica Restaino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Restaino, Jessica, 1976- author.

Series:

Studies in writing & rhetoric.

CCCC studies in writing & rhetoric

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

English teachers--Training of.

English teachers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (165 p.)

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jessica Restaino offers a snapshot of the first semester experiences of graduate student writing teachers as they navigate predetermined course syllabi and materials, the pressures of grading, the influences of foundational scholarship, and their own classroom authority. With rich qualitative data gathered from course observations, interviews, and correspondence, Restaino traces four graduate students' first experiences as teachers at a large, public university. Yet the circumstances and situations she relates will ring familiar at widely varying institutions. First Semester: Graduate Student

Contents:

Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Arendt, Writing Teachers, and Beginnings; 2. Labor and Endlessness: Necessity and Consumption in the First Semester; 3. Teachers-as-Students: Work and Action in the Middle Space; 4. Thinking What We Are Doing: Knowledge Making in the Trenches; Appendix A: Recruitment Letter; Appendix B: Orientation Survey; Notes; Works Cited and Consulted; Index; Author Biography; CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric; Other Books in the CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric Series; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8093-9090-6

OCLC:

905984579