Useful Links
Chapter 1: Introduction: Assuming the Identity of Writer
- You can find a complete text of “The Killers” at http://www.scribd.com/doc/6547255/Ernest-Hemingway-The-Killers
- The National Writing Project is a United States professional development network that serves teachers of writing at all grade levels, primary through university, and in all subjects. You will find this a major stepping-off site for a whole range of topics, including research reports and resources for teachers of writing.
- For clear argument in favour of a National Writing Project for teachers, see Richard Andrews, The case for a National Writing Project for teachers.
- There are a number of sites in the US for regionally based Writing Projects such as the New York City Writing Project.
- To become acquainted with the National Writing Project in the United Kingdom, go to http://www.nwp.org.uk/, which also has resources available for teachers and some current research in England.
Chapter 2: Writing in the 21st Century
- If you are interested in the history of writing as a material practice, check out Writing as Material Practice: Substance, Surface and Medium, edited by Kathryn Piquette and Ruth Whitehouse (2013), London, UK: Ubiquity Press.
- A useful introduction to semiotics can be found on Daniel Chandler’s site, Semiotics for Beginners.
- To explore the work of Umberto Eco, go to his own website, http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/
- For more on IALS (International Adult Literacy Survey) see Irwin Kirsh, The International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS): Understanding What Was Measured, December 2001, (Princeton, NJ, Educational Testing Service).
- To check out PIRLS or Progress in International Reading-Literacy Study and find links to recent reports, click on the link.
- To check out PISA or Program for International Student Assessment and find links to recent reports, click on the link.
- For a critique of international literacy surveys, see Elley, W. (2004), New Zealand literacy standards in a global context: The uses and abuses of international literacy surveys, English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 3(1), 32–45.
- The IDEA site is one you might visit if you want to know more about the US 1983 report, A Nation At Risk.
- The main site for No Child Left Behind can be accessed by clicking on the link
- For a conservative critique of No Child Left Behind, see No Child Left Behind: The Dangers of Centralized Education Policy by Lawrence A. Uzzell (May 31, 2005).
- For a fascinating insight into why a former supporter of NCLB changed her mind, (i.e. Diane Ravitch), check out the following link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124209100.
- The a National Writing Project view on The Neglected “R” report from the National Commission on Writing in America’s Schools and Colleges, go to http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/2523.
- For a critique of the Ofsted report, The Teaching of Reading in 45 Inner London Primary Schools, see The Teaching of Reading in 45 Inner London Primary Schools: A critical examination of OFSTED research by Peter Mortimore and Harvey Goldstein from Institute of Education, University of London.
- For a useful introduction to the idea of literacy as a social practice, see Jerome Harste (2003), What do we mean by literacy now? Voices from the Middle, 10(3), 8–12.
- As a starting point to finding out more about the “New Literacies,” you could do worse than check out Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_literacies.
- A useful place to begin exploring Chomsky’s notion of linguistic competence is the About.com site on Grammar & Composition established by Richard Nordquist. The same site will enable you to find out more about Dell Himes and communicative competence.
- Wikipedia is useful on Lev Vygotsky. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Vygotsky.
- In a collection of lectures under the title The written word: Literacy in transition, edited by Gerd Baumann (Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1986) you can find an essay by Walter Ong entitled “Writing is a technology that restructures thought”.
Chapter 3: Writing the Self through Storying
- For more on biopoems visit http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson398/biopoem.pdf.
- For examples of student biopoems, visit Allan Wolf’s site at http://www.allanwolf.com/visits/poetry-and-nonfiction/bio-poem-examples/.
- For more on Peter Elbow’s views visit http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~jelkins/writeshop/writeshop/elbow.html.
- There is a National Writing Project site that will tell you more about the life and work of James Moffett.
- For more on Antonio Damasio’s view of consciousness, visit Academic Studies of Human Consciousness.
- For some exercises that might help you find your own voice in your writing, check out Jeff Goins, 10 Steps to Finding Your Writing Voice.
- For an overview of theory of mind, check out Martin Brüne and Ute Brüne-Cohrs’ article, Theory of mind – Evolution, ontogeny, brain mechanisms and psychopathology in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 30(4), 437–455.
- You can also check out Dual Coding via a Youtube presentation by Jay Dold.
- The Wikipedia entry on “Narrative” is a good place to start if you would like to extend your thinking on the nature of narrative.
Chapter 4: “One’s-self I Sing”: The Democratic Self in Writing
- For an explanation of classical rhetoric, go to Anthony DiRenzo’s site by following the link.
- For reading notes by Adam Kissel based on the book by Chaim Perelman and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca, The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation (1969), follow the link.
- The Wikipedia page for rhetoric is also worth a visit.
- For more on the concept of “context,” visit http://coppock-violi.com/web/Project/web2/Epistemology3.html.
- The Wikipedia page for metaphor is worth a visit at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor.
- The Poetry Foundation provides an excellent glossary of poetic terms.
- The Wikipedia site for Bakhtin is useful (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakhtin), as is as is the site on Bakhtin maintained by the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP). Martin Irvine maintains a useful site on Bakhtin at Georgetown University that will help you develop your understanding of such terms as “utterance” and “dialogism,” as used by Bakhtin.
- For intertextuality, I suggest the Wikipedia site at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertextuality.
- For a useful introduction to critical discourse analysis, see Teun Van Dijk, Critical Discourse Analysis.
- Daniel Chandler offers a fairly comprehensive “Introduction to Genre Theory” on his website.
- For examples of student memoirs, visit the “Write It” site for the heading “Read Memoir”.
Chapter 5:Writing as Enacting the Professional Self
- Click on “Toward Wide-Awakeness: An Argument for the Arts and Humanities in Education” by Maxine Greene to read this article.
- For more on content words and function words, click on the link.
- “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll.
- Click on the link for more information about Elliot Eisner and the concept of the connoisseur in the context of education.
- For more on narrative point of view, you might visit a Youtube presentation from Mr Turner’s English, or by clicking on the following link, which will take you to some notes on Point of View and Narrative Voice.
- Click the link for Aesop’s Fables.
- For more from Richard Andrews on “The importance of argument in education”, click on the link.
- For more on the Toulmin model of argument, click on the link.
- For a simple approach to writing a position statement, click on the link.
- For a useful resource on “Developing Evidence-Based Arguments from Texts”, visit the readwritethink site managed by the NCTE and International Reading Association.
Chapter 6: Writing as Design
- For more on Charles Olson, check out “Charles Olson and the Nature of Destructive Humanism” by Craig Stormont.
- For more on Antonio Damasio, I suggest that you check out his TED talk on “The quest to understand consciousness”.
- For more on concrete and abstract language, check out the webpage of John Friedlander on “Abstract, concrete, general and specific terms”.
- Read the full text of Keats’ “To Autumn” on the Poets.org website.
- Click on the link for a “Glossary of multimodal terms”.
- Read Gunther Kress’s paper, “Reading images: Multimodality, representation and new media” by clicking on the link.
- Wikipedia has an excellent page on the Pamphlet.
- Wikipedia has a good “Slogan” page.
- The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is an excellent site. As mentioned in the book, it provides a great resource for teaching “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen.
- The site About.com has a useful page on “The History of HTML”.
- The most enthusiastic advocate of hypertextuality that I know is David Reinking, whose article “Me and my hypertext:) A multiple digression analysis of technology and literacy (sic)” can still be accessed via The Reading Teacher (Volume 50, Number 8, 1997).
- Wikipedia has a useful page on “Bricolage”.
Chapter 7: Best Practice Overview—What the Research Says
- Lee Shulman’s article (1987) on “Knowledge and teaching: Foundations of the New Reform”, from the Harvard Educational Review, 57(1), 1–21, can be accessed on line by clicking the link.
- The Wikipedia page on Brooks and Warren’s Understanding Poetryis excellent.
- For a lecture by Professor Paul Fry on “The New Criticism and other Western formalisms”, click on the link.
- For more on rhetorical grammar, check out “Rhetorical Grammar: A modification lesson” by Martha Kolln.
- Richard Coe and Aviva Freedman offer an overview of “Genre theory: Australian and North American perspectives”. Click on the link.
- Learn NC as a site offers a useful overview of Critical Literacy by Heather Coffey.
- For the full Writing is Primary Report (Richard Ings), click on the link.
- To access Graham, S., & Perin, D. (2007). Writing next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high schools—A report to Carnegie Corporation of New York. Washington, DC: Alliance for Excellent Education, click on the link.
- For the full report on Effective Ways of Teaching Complex Expression in Writing, by Debra Myhill, Ros Fisher, Susan Jones, Helen Lines and Alun Hicks (2008), click on the link.
- The THINK LITERACY: Cross-Curricular Approaches, Grades 7–12 site offers some useful material on Writing Strategies. Another useful resource is Teaching Writing Strategies by Steve Graham (Vanderbilt University). A Google search for “Writing Strategies” will lead to other sites of possible value.
- Richard Nordquist has some thing to say about Collaborative Writing in the About-com site on Grammar & Composition.
- The Capital Community College Foundation has a useful resource on Sentence-Combining Skills.
- For more on using inquiry in your writing program, visit the site of J. Wilhelm on Using Inquiry Strategies to Promote Student Reading, Writing and Discussion.
Chapter 8: Building a Community of Writing Practice
- The About.com site on Grammar & Composition has a good page on Dell Hymes’ theory of Communicative Competence, by Richard Nordquist.
- Richard Nordquist has also written a page about what a Speech Community is on the Grammar & Composition section of About.com.
- Click on the link for “Communities of practice: A brief introduction”, by Etienne Wenger-Trayner.
- For more on Funds of Knowledge, check out a page written by Janet Kier Lopez on the Learn NC site.
- For more on Peer Response Groups, click on the link which will take you to the Writing Across the Curriculum site.
- For more more on self-efficacy, check out Kendra Cherry’s page on “What is Self-Efficacy” on the About.com Psychology site.
- The Instructional Strategies Online site has more information on Author’s Chair.
- For a critical and balanced view of metacognition, check out David Didau’s Blog, The Learning Spy, and the entry “What is meta-cognition and can we teach it?”
- The excellent Tools of the Mind site has a page on “Zone of Proximal Development and Scaffolding”.
Chapter 9: Writing as Process
- For another view of writing as a recursive process, click on the link.
- A fairly standard approach to the writing process can be found at “Implementing the Writing Process” on the IRA/NCTE readwritethink website.
- The Busy Teacher site has a resource page entitled: “How To Teach Writing: 6 Methods For Generating Writing Ideas”.
- For a selection of fairy tales from The Brothers Grimm, click on the link.
- Go to the National Center on Accelerating Student Learning for an essay on “Self-regulated strategy development in writing: Story and opinion essay writing for students with disabilities or severe difficulties in the early elementary grades” by Karen Harris, Steve Graham, and Linda Mason.
- For a series of Vignettes of Co-constructing Criteria from Cleveland Heights/University Heights City Schools, Ohio, click on the link.
- Some good ideas on revision and on the writing process itself can be found on Ali Hale’s page, The Writing Process on the Daily Writing Tips website.
- There is a wikiHow page on “How to Be a Travel Writer” which you can access by clicking the link.
- Drew Schrader provides a lesson plan entitled “Beyond ‘What I Did on Vacation’: Exploring the Genre of Travel Writing” on the IRA/NCTE readwritethink website.
- As an example of a study that has explored the connection between teaching writing and drama, see Cremin, T., Goouch, K., Blakemore, L., Goff, E., & Macdonald, R. (2006). Connecting drama and writing: Seizing the moment to write. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 11(3), 273–291.
- For more on the concept of appeal see Richard Nordquist’s page on the Grammar & Composition site for About.com.
Chapter 10: Addressing (and Answering) the “Grammar” Question
- For a double issue on “Knowledge about language in the English/literacy classroom” in the journal English Teaching: Practice and Critique, click on the links: December 2005 and May 2006.
- Wikipedia has a useful page on Tacit knowledge.
- About.com’s Grammar and Composition site has an introduction to systemic functional linguistics (SFL) from Richard Nordquist.
- For a systematic review of the research literature in relation to
“The effect of grammar teaching (syntax) in English on 5 to 16 year olds’ accuracy and quality in written composition” click on the link. - Click on the link for a review of the research literature on the topic of “The effect of grammar teaching (sentence combining) in English on 5 to 16-year-olds’ accuracy and quality in written composition”.
- The Capital Community College Foundation website has a useful page on Sentence-Combining Skills with lots of links and resources.
- You can find an excellent working paper on Working Paper on “Code-switching: Insights and Strategies for teaching Standard English in dialectally diverse classrooms”, by Rebecca Wheeler, by clicking on the link.
- There is a useful page on the UEfAP (Using English for Academic Purposes) website authored by Andy Gillett on “Writing Paragraphs”, which includes a focus on cohesion.
- GrammarBook.com is one of many websites that offer advice on rules of grammar and punctuation.
- The Oxford Dictionaries Language matters website is a good place to go to for questions around grammar. Click on the link for a useful resource on word classes (parts of speech).
- For more on “theme” and “rheme” check on Andy Gillett’s UEfAP page on “Writing Paragraphs” via the link.
Chapter 11: Writing as Technology, or Writing as ICRT
- For EPPI Centre systematic reviews of “the Impact of ICT on literacy”, click on the link.
- The website education.com has a page by M. D. Roblyer and A. Doering on “The Impact of Word Processing in Education”.
- The newmedialiteracies wiki-based site has an introduction to multimodal storytelling.
- Annemaree O’Brien’s blog offers an excellent page on “Creating Multimodal Texts” and digital story-telling.
- Wikipedia is a good place to start for investigating the world of blogging. See Blog.
- Check out Youth Voices for examples of student blogs.
Chapter 12: Writing Assessment as Negotiating Power and Discourse
- Terry Barrett (1994) has written a useful webpage on Art Criticism.
- The Northern Illinois University, Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center has a useful downloadable pdf on types of assessment.
- The Assessment Reform Group (ARG) has been at the forefront of challenging thinking and practice in relation to all aspects of assessment, including assessment for learning, and their website is well worth a visit.
- A full text of Carlo Goldoni’s play The Servant of Two Masterscan be accessed courtesy of Project Gutenberg.
- For reflections on the impact of neoliberal educational discourse on contemporary assessment practices, try Googling David Hursh. Click on the link to read Hursh’s article on “Assessing No Child Left Behind and the Rise of Neoliberal Education Policies” from the American Educational Research Journal (2007).
- Check on Diane Ravitch’s Blog, Network for Publication Education for further critical of recent trends in standardized assessment practice in the US.
- “Relating Policy to Research and Practice: The Common Core Standards”, an article published in 2011 in Language Arts by Randy Bomer and Beth Maloch can be accessed by clicking on the link.
- Check out Pete Reilly’s blog, Ed Tech Journey’s for a discussion of performance goals vs learning goals.
- Check out John Fien’s professorial address on “Learning to Care: Education and Compassion” by clicking on the link.
- There is an excellent Poetry Foundation webpage on June Jordan.
- The TeacherVision website has a resource page on “The Advantages of Rubrics”.
- For a critique of the use of rubrics, check out Alfie Kohn’s article, “The Trouble with Rubrics”, published in the English Journal in March, 2006.
- The Teacher Planet website has a resources on “Six Traits Writing Rubrics”.