Teaching Academic Literacy: The Uses of Teacher-research in Developing A Writing Program

by Alan A. Jackson

Teaching Academic Literacy provides a unique outlook on a first-year writing program's evolution by bringing together a group of related essays that analyze, from various angles, how theoretical concepts about writing actually operate in real students' writing. Based on the beginning writing program developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a course that asks students to consider what it means to be a literate member of a community,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805828036
• ISBN13: 9780805828030
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"