The Journal Book: For Teachers in Technical and Professional Programs

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Toby Fulwiler, Susan Gardner
Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1999 - Education - 184 pages

With the publication of The Journal Book in 1987, Toby Fulwiler revealed how journal writing can unleash the inquisitive and imaginative minds of English students. Now, as the writing-across-the-curriculum movement gains momentum, Susan Gardner and Toby Fulwiler extend the same high-quality guidance to teachers in technical and professional programs.

The Journal Book for Teachers in Technical and Professional Programs is the first collection of essays to focus on uses of journal writing outside the field of liberal arts, representing disciplines such as accounting, computer science, engineering, nursing, and teacher education. Readers will discover new strategies for building confident learners, including:

    traditional and electronic journals, letters, freewrites, focused freewrites, and electronic conferences
  • writing that is kept confidential, or shared only with teachers, or only with teammates, or with all class members
  • writing that generates a written response, or an oral response, or no formal response at all.
Readers will see how these teachers assign such writing, why they assign it, the problems they face, the adjustments they make, the successes they have. And they will see numerous examples of students writing and surprising themselves and their teachers.

From inside the book

 

Contents

Kathleen Lazarus
7
Using Journals
19
The Reflective Journal
35
Copyright

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About the author (1999)

Toby Fulwiler directs the writing program at the University of Vermont, where he also teaches composition and literature courses. Editor of The Journal Book (1987), Fulwiler is also author of College Writing: A Personal Approach to Academic Writing, Second Edition (1997) and coeditor, with Art Young, of Programs That Work: Models and Methods for Writing Across the Curriculum (1990) and Writing Across the Disciplines: Research into Practice--all published by Boynton/Cook. Susan Gardner, Associate Professor of Education at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, has been a high school teacher, director of a college writing program, and Writing Coordinator for the Faculty. Gardner conducts workshops for elementary through college faculty across the curriculum on how to use writing effectively in the classroom. She has used journals extensively in her teaching since the early 1970s.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Journal Book: For Teachers in Technical and Professional Programs
EditorsToby Fulwiler, Susan Gardner
PublisherBoynton/Cook Publishers, 1999
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedMar 7, 2008
ISBN0867094532, 9780867094534
Length184 pages
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Education / Schools / Levels / Higher
Technology & Engineering / Technical Writing
  
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