The Neglected “R”:
Teaching Writing in a Culture That’s Lost Its… Whatever
by "the Broady Bunch"

A Sourcebook Composed by Students Enrolled Fall 2004 in
Eng. 297, “The Teaching of Writing,” Section 1

Table Of Contents

Section One: Creative Ways to Use Writing in the Classroom

• 16-Day Unit Creating Poetfolios (Sarah Jessee)
• The One Writing Topic Where You Actually Know All The Information, Yourself (Jim Rossetti)
• Technology: Beauty or the Beast? (Miranda Smith)
• Teaching Poetry Without Intimidating Students (Melissa Wallace)
• “A Genre That Helps Me Live My Life”: Teaching Materials on the Writing of Memoirs (Jeni Williamson)
• Teaching Writing through Workshopping (Courtney Webb)

 

Section Two: How to Use Motivation in the Classroom

• Motivating students to Write in the Classroom (Kate Behrens)
• Praising Students for their Writing: Neglect, Necessity, and Power
  (Jennifer Tarmann)

Section Three: Writing for Special Needs

• What Does Writing Have to do with Struggling Readers? (Tracy Dotson)
• Making ESL Students Feel Comfortable With Writing in the Mainstream Classroom (Beth Duffy)
• The Right to Write: Strategies to Enable ESL Students (Katherine Glodz)
• Teaching Writing to Students with Learning Disabilities (Jessica Faivre)
• Procrastinating Students: What Can Teachers Do? (Brett Parrott)

 

Section Four: Writing across the Curriculum

• Learning to Love Writing in the Content Areas (Jen Cox)
• Rhetoric and Writing (Megan Dougherty)
• Using Technology to teach writing in the Spanish Classroom (Jen Jensen)
• Don’t be a Victim: A Unit on Rhetoric and its Contemporary Applications
  (Amy Landsberger)
• The Fine Art of Writing: Writing Across the Curriculum in Music and Theatre
  (Jessi Lim)