First Semester: Graduate Students, Teaching Writing, and the

First Semester: Graduate Students, Teaching Writing, and the Challenge of Middle Ground (Studies in Writing and Rhetoric)

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 studentsâ€™ 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 Students, Teaching Writing, and the Challenge of Middle Ground presents a fresh and challenging theoretical approach to understanding and improving the preparation of graduate students for the writing classroom. Restaino uses a three-part theoretical constructâ€”labor, action, and work, as defined in Hannah Arendtâ€™s work of political philosophy, The Human Conditionâ€”as a lens for reading graduate studentsâ€™ struggles to balance their new responsibilities as teachers with their concurrent roles as students. Arendtâ€™s concepts serve as access points for analysis, raising important questions about graduate student writing teachersâ€™ first classrooms and uncovering opportunities for improved support and preparation by university writing programs.
Country USA
Brand Southern Illinois University Press
Manufacturer Southern Illinois University Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780809330812
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Southern Illinois University Press
Manufacturer	Southern Illinois University Press
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780809330812
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

First Semester: Graduate Students, Teaching Writing, and the Challenge of Middle Ground (Studies in Writing and Rhetoric)

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