Carol Peterson Haviland – författare

First published in 1998. In a 1996 review article in College English, Elizabeth Rankin contrasted the method and epistemology of two recent books on writing pedagogy, describing one as "grounded in the experience of student writers and teachers" and the other as "academic." Rankin’s labels highlight one of the leading sources of tension in composition research—the tension between practice and theory—a tension that echoes in writing center research and publications. This collection of chapters seeks to build on the inherent collaborativeness of writing centers, capturing the voices of the student writers and tutors who are at the core of writing center work.

Although several anthologies have collected articles on issues confronting composition studies, no other text looks at student writing as does Teaching/Writing in the Late Age of Print. No other volume has asked compositionists to use student writing to reflect on their teaching practices. No other volume has provided the rich breadth of response that reflects the current state of composition in the United States. And, no other volume has defined its primary task as portraying the diversity of the field through teaching practices as represented in student writing. Most important of all, no other volume has provided all course materials and supplemental documentation online as an integral part of such a project. There is a keyword refrence table that allows readers to read chapters based on key terms in the field like ""collaboration."" Each chapter begins with an abstract for easy reference. The companion website for this book includes a searchable database of all the chapter abstracts, assignments, excerpts from all contributions, extended course materials that help contextualize the printed chapters, and an online forum for teachers and researchers to meet and discuss their research interests.