Editor, Writer, Teacher, Colleague

Dear Colleague

James F. Crow: storied teacher, leader, and colleague at the University of Wisconsin.

Meehl as colleague.

The author summarizes some memories and impressions of Paul Meehl as graduate advisor, classroom teacher, and departmental colleague.

Exploring the discursively constructed identities of a teacher-writer teaching writing

In the light of international interest in teachers’ literate identities and practices, this paper addresses the under-researched area of teachers’ writing identities. It examines the multimodal interactive discursive practices at play in the writing classroom of a teacher in the UK who, in order to support the pupils, consciously positions herself as a writer in this context; seeking to model e...

Responding to the Adult Esl Writer: a Teacher-as-researcher Case Study

A study investigated the use of specific error correction and writing instruction techniques in a composition course designed for foreign graduate students. Weekly in-class student essays on assigned topics were returned to them ungraded but containing explanations of grammar points, confusing vocabulary, content, and organization. A conscious effort was made to find praiseworthy elements in ev...