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2. Peter Elbow - Wikipedia

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   Peter Elbow (born April 14, 1935) is a professor of English Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he also directed the Writing Program from 1996 until 2000. He writes about theory, practice, and pedagogy, and has authored several books and papers. He is one of the pioneers of freewriting. [1]

3. Theories of rhetoric and composition pedagogy - Wikipedia

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   W.E. Coles Jr. suggests that teaching writing should be approached as teaching art, with the teacher serving as facilitator or guide for the student-writer's free expression; he also calls for classroom practices such as peer-reviews, class discussions, and the absence of grades, in order to best guide the self-identification he sees as crucial ...

4. TCRWP's Writing Workshop - Wikipedia

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   The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project 's Writing Workshop was a method of writing instruction for children developed by teacher Lucy Calkin and her colleagues at the Teachers College, Columbia University. In October 2023, Teachers College announced it would be closing the Reading and Writing Project and replacing it with a new ...

5. George Hillocks Jr. - Wikipedia

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   George Hillocks Jr. (June 15, 1934 - November 12, 2014) [ 1] was an emeritus professor in the Department of Education, with a joint appointment in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. He received in 2011 the James R. Squire Award of the National Council of Teachers of English for having "a transforming ...

6. The Maxims of Ptahhotep - Wikipedia

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   The purpose of Instruction texts was to teach the youth how to live well and were usually written by elders. The main themes Ptahhotep focuses on are silence, timing, truthfulness, relationships, and manners. [2] The text helps to reconstruct the social context of that time by describing the cultural space in which the writings were influential ...

7. Donald Murray (writer) - Wikipedia

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   Donald Murray (writer) Donald Morison Murray (September 16, 1924 – December 30, 2006) [1] was an American journalist and English professor. [2] He wrote for many journals, authored several books on the art of writing and teaching, and served as writing coach for several national newspapers. After writing multiple editorials about changes in ...

8. Teachers College Reading and Writing Project - Wikipedia

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   Teachers College Reading and Writing Project (TCRWP or "The Project") was founded and directed by Lucy Calkins, The Robinson Professor of Children's Literature at Teachers College, Columbia University. Its mission was to help young people become avid and skilled readers, writers, and inquirers through research, curriculum development, and in ...

9. First-year composition - Wikipedia

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   First-year composition (sometimes known as first-year writing, freshman composition or freshman writing) is an introductory core curriculum writing course in US colleges and universities. This course focuses on improving students' abilities to write in a university setting and introduces students to writing practices in the disciplines and ...