Learning by Teaching: Selected Articles on Writing and Teaching

Don Murray

Boynton/Cook, 1982 - Education - 184 pages

Murray is one of the pioneers of a process approach to teaching writing, and this book brings together twenty-nine of the articles, some previously unpublished, he has written in the past fifteen years. His pieces are theoretically stimulating, but they are also practical and humane as he looks at writing and teaching from the perspective of a working writer and teacher.

Contents

• The Explorers of Inner Space 1969: 3
• How Writing Finds Its Own Meaning: 17
• Write Before Writing 1978: 32

About the author

For nearly 60 years Donald Murray was a tireless explorer, chronicler, and advocate of writers, writing, and the teaching of writing. "We are coaches, encouragers, developers, creators of environments in which our students can experience the writing process for themselves," he wrote in 1972. Through the years and over numerous books, academic articles, newspaper columns, classroom handouts, writing conferences, and warm collegial conversations, thousands of students, writers, and teachers benefited from Don's work. Millions more continue to benefit by the wide circle of his influence over the fields of writing, writing instruction, journalism. Some of Don's most important insights about writing and teaching writing are collected in the Heinemann's The Essential Don Murray (edited by Thomas Newkirk and Lisa Miller). A Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, Don was a columnist for The Boston Globe and Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. He was also a writing coach for several national newspapers, wrote poetry for many journals, including Poetry, and authored several books on the craft of writing and teaching writing, including Learning by Teaching, Expecting the Unexpected, Shoptalk, and Crafting a Life in Essay, Story, Poem, and Writing to Deadline. Read article on seacoastonline.com featuring Don Murray

Bibliographic information

• Title: Learning by Teaching: Selected Articles on Writing and Teaching
• Author: Don Murray
• Edition: 6, reprint
• Publisher: Boynton/Cook, 1982
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Feb 26, 2008
• ISBN: 0867090251, 9780867090253
• Length: 184 pages
• Subjects: Education / General; Education / Schools / Levels / Higher; Juvenile Nonfiction / Literary Criticism & Collections; Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric; Language Arts & Disciplines / Study & Teaching