Writing-Based Teaching

At Bard College's Institute for Writing and Thinking, Teresa Vilardi is Director, and Mary Chang is former Associate Director.

• PREFACELeon BotsteinACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTIONTeresa Vilardi1. A Case for Private Freewriting in the ClassroomSharon Marshall2. Focused Freewriting: How to Do Things with Writing PromptsNicole B.Wallack3. Process Writing: Reflection and the Arts of Writing and TeachingAlfred E. Guy Jr.4. Odd Questions, Strange Texts, and Other People: Collaborative Learning, Play, and New KnowledgeAlice Lesnick5. Dialectical NotebooksMargaret Ranny Bledsoe6. Radical Revision: Toward Demystifying the Labor of WritingCarley Moore7. Learning Culture:Writing in CommunityRobert D.Whittemore8. To Write and Think in the Community of SchoolRay PetersonPOSTSCRIPT Community and Collaboration: The Workshop in Language and Thinking and the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard CollegeTeresa VilardiLIST OF CONTRIBUTORSINDEX

"Instructors interested in developing a classroom 'practice' of writing will find this collection a rich resource. The essays are well formulated; the volume itself, thoughtfully organized. Iteratively captured in a range of voices and teaching strategies, the underlying argument is compelling." — Teaching Theology and Religion"As a former teaching assistant I would have benefited from experiencing a program like that described in Writing-Based Teaching." — Paul Baker, Wordsalad.wordpress.com"Any individual, program, or institution seriously interested in understanding and practicing the writing process would benefit from using this text." — Alison Cook-Sather, author of Education is Translation: A Metaphor for Change in Learning and Teaching"One of the most important ideas in this collection is that we, as writing teachers, need to develop habits of action and habits of mind that students can take with them." — Pat Belanoff, coauthor of Being a Writer: A Community of Writers Revisited