Background
Elbow, Peter was born on April 14, 1935.
(Peter Elbow's widely acclaimed and original theories on t...)
Peter Elbow's widely acclaimed and original theories on the writing process, set forth in Writing Without Teachers and Writing With Power, have earned him a reputation as a leading educational innovator. Now Elbow has drawn together twelve of his essays on the nature of learning and teaching to suggest a comprehensive philosophy of education. At once theoretical and down-to-earth, this collection will appeal not only to teachers, adminitrators and students, but to anyone with a love of learning. Elbow explores the "contraries" in the educational process, in particular his theory that clear thinking can be enhanced by inviting indecision, incoherence, and paradoxical thinking. The essays, written over a period of twenty-five years, are engaged in a single enterprise:to arrive at insights or conclusions about learning and teaching while still doing justice to the "rich messiness" of intellectual inquiry. Drawing his conclusions from his own perplexities as a student and as a teacher, Elbow discusses the value of interdisciplinary teaching, his theory of "cooking" (an interaction of conflicting ideas), the authority relationship in teaching and the value of specifying learning objectives. A full section is devoted to evaluation and feedback, both of students and faculty. Finally, Elbow focuses on the need to move beyond the skepticism of critical thinking to what he calls "methodological belief"-an ability to embrace more than one point of view.
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(This text provides a workshop approach to the teaching of...)
This text provides a workshop approach to the teaching of composition. It addresses students as writers, challenging them to develop their skills by writing often, by exploring their writing processes, and by sharing their writing with others. The flexible workshops allow an instructor to organize and orient their course individually, and the book integrates readings - both student and professional - throughout. It also contains more than 100 writing assignments.
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(To help foster a productive environment for group work, t...)
To help foster a productive environment for group work, this text offers advice to students on talking with one another about their writing. The activities in this guide move from non-judgmental kinds of responding to full criticism to help build students' confidence and trust. The guide contains two sample papers, which are used to illustrate different kinds of feedback. It concludes with a summary of ways of responding and suggestions on how and when they're most useful.
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(This groundbreaking rhetoric/reader is known for its prac...)
This groundbreaking rhetoric/reader is known for its practical, workshop approach. Addressing students as writers, A COMMUNITY OF WRITERS features numerous writing activities and assignments that challenge students to develop their skills by writing often, by exploring their writing processes, and by sharing their writing with others. The third edition features a new design and incorporates expanded treatment of argumentation and research, in-depth coverage of the Internet (including a mini-workshop on composing a web page) and computer-based writing, coverage of visual literacy, more material on drafting, and a variety of new student and professional essays.
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Elbow, Peter was born on April 14, 1935.
Bachelor in English Literature, Williams College, 1957. Bachelor, Oxford University, 1959. Master of Arts, Oxford University, 1964.
Doctor of Philosophy, Brandeis University, 1970.
Instructor literature section, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960-1963; assistant professor literature section, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1968-1972; faculty, chairman interdisciplinary core curriculum, Franconia (N.H.) College, 1963-1965; associate dean of faculty, Franconia (N.H.) College, 1964-1965; faculty, Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, 1972-1981; Kent postdoctoral fellow, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1981-1982; Professor of English, director writing project, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1982-1986; Professor of English, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, since 1986.
(Peter Elbow's widely acclaimed and original theories on t...)
(To help foster a productive environment for group work, t...)
(A guide detailing how students can share their writing wi...)
(This groundbreaking rhetoric/reader is known for its prac...)
(This text provides a workshop approach to the teaching of...)
(Book by Elbow, Peter)
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Member Modern Language Association.
Married Caroline Campbell Pelz. 2 children.