This concise handbook helps educators write for the rhetorical situations they will face as students of education, and as preservice and practicing teachers. It provides clear and helpful advice for responding to the varying contexts, audiences, and purposes that arise in four written categories in education: classroom, research, credential, and stakeholder writing. The book moves from academic to professional writing and chapters include a discussion of relevant genres, mentor texts with salient features identified, visual aids, and exercises that ask students to apply their understanding of the concepts. Readers learn about the scholarly and qualitative research processes prevalent in the field of education and are encouraged to use writing to facilitate change that improves teaching and learning conditions.

Book Features:

• Presents a rhetorical approach to writing in education.
• Includes detailed student samples for each of the four major categories of writing.
• Articulates writing as a core intellectual responsibility of teachers.
• Details the library and qualitative research process using examples from education.
• Includes many user-friendly features, such as reflection questions and writing prompts.

About the Author

Katie O. Arosteguy, Alison Bright, and Brenda J. Rinard are senior lecturers in the University Writing Program at the University of California, Davis, where they teach professional writing, including a course on writing in education. They are all National Writing Project Teacher-Consultants.

Reviews

"This text is accessible, student-friendly, and organized in a way that will support readers' learning...can help teachers at any stage of their career to grow as writers. It can also help teacher-writers become the kind of teachers who reflect on their pedagogical choices and who write as a way to improve the conditions for all teachers and students."

-Teachers College Record

"Helping teacher candidates with the vast variety of writing formats and requirements is important work. The authors have done a very good job of covering almost all the bases."

-The Texas Forum of Teacher Education

Book Information
ISBN 9780807761236
Author Katie O. Arosteguy
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Teachers' College Press
Publisher Teachers' College Press
Weight(grams) 295g
Dimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 10mm