Homework, Thursday, July 12, 2007

NWP Publications

The Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 3-4, 2005

Mozartians, Beethovians, and the Teaching of Writing
By Diane Christian Boehm
In this essay from 1993, Diane Christian Boehm directly confronts the myth of the sequential writing process, finding that writers create as "Mozartians" or "Beethovians," or sometimes a little of both.

Skeletons Out of the Closet: The Case of the Missing 162%
By Bob Pressnall
A Quarterly article often reveals a teacher’s mind at work, providing readers a ringside seat as the teacher observes, changes, rearranges, and fine-tunes classroom practice.

Getting Real: Authenticity in Writing Prompts
By Patricia Slagle
Writing teachers often strive to develop exercises so that students will write "authentic" pieces for an audience beyond the teacher, but in this 1997 article, Patricia Slagle demonstrates the next step: sending student writing to people outside the classroom.

The Parallel Universes of Theory and Practice: One Teacher's Journey
By Beverly Paesano
Beverly Paesano began her teaching career frustrated that the traditional approaches she'd been taught “did not help children write more fluently and look at [their] writing more critically."