Responding to Writing: A Practical Sourcebook for Instructors

By Grant Eckstein, Dana R. Ferris, Betsy Gilliland

Responding to Writing brings together practical, cutting-edge ideas from teachers who spend their days working with student writers and trying to make feedback genuinely useful. The book shares classroom approaches that have been tested in real courses, from high school settings to college and graduate programs. It shows how teachers, peers, and students themselves can make feedback a more collaborative and manageable part of writing instruction.

Each chapter presents a student-centered approach that helps writers feel supported and more in control of their own writing and revision process. In addition to a summary of the approach with light background and context, readers will find straightforward examples, tools, and routines they can adapt to their own classrooms, including ways to use technology, build reflection into assignments, and support writers with varied backgrounds and needs. This book offers working instructors a set of dependable methods for helping students improve as writers while keeping feedback purposeful and humane.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472040448
• ISBN13: 9780472040445
• Release Date: July 2027
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
• Length: 336 Pages