Something Old, Something New: College Writing Teachers and Classroom Change

Studies in Writing and Rhetoric

by Professor Wendy Bishop B.A. M.A. Ph.D.

How do college writing teachers learn new ways to teach? Most current composition research focuses almost exclusively on student writers, ignoring the role the teacher plays in classroom development. Here is the first book to focus on college writing teachers and the ways in which they are affected by graduate rhetoric pedagogy courses. Wendy Bishop observed teachers enrolled in a doctoral seminar, titled "Teaching Basic Writing," and then conducted case studies of five of those teachers in their college writing classrooms to investigate how their teaching practices changed and how their previous professional and personal histories influenced their ability to make those changes.

192 pages, Paperback

First published March 5, 1990