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Anne Beaufort
TCXG 464
Tacoma Campus
Studies theories and practices of writing education and the history and challenges of writing assessment. Explores learning communities. Emphasized pedagogical questions of social class, ethnicity, multilingualism, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and nationality.
Class description
This course is for teachers, education and composition studies students, and writers who want to understand some of the cognitive and social aspects of writing and enhance their abilities both as writers and teachers of writing. Topics to be addressed include: writing process theory, writer’s block, motivating writing in school settings, improving academic literacies, writing instruction pedagogies, grading effectively and efficiently, and the ideologies and assumptions behind various approaches to writing curricula.
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
This course is hands-on. Participants will read, write, and discuss their own and others’ writing, plan writing activities, and research issues related to curriculum development or state-mandated writing assessment.
Recommended preparation
Class assignments and grading
Reading responses, literacy autobiography, and teaching materials
