TY  - BOOK
AU  - Restaino,Jessica
TI  - First Semester: Graduate Students, Teaching Writing, and the Challenge of Middle Ground
T2  - Studies in Writing and Rhetoric
SN  - 9781336153677
AV  - PE1404 .F577 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Carbondale
PB  - Southern Illinois University Press
KW  - English language
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - English teachers
KW  - Training of
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Arendt, Writing Teachers, and Beginnings; 2. Labor and Endlessness: Necessity and Consumption in the First Semester; 3. Teachers-as-Students: Work and Action in the Middle Space; 4. Thinking What We Are Doing: Knowledge Making in the Trenches; Appendix A: Recruitment Letter; Appendix B: Orientation Survey; Notes; Works Cited and Consulted; Index; Author Biography; CCCC Studies in Writing and Rhetoric; Other Books in the CCCC Studies in Writing and Rhetoric Series; Back Cover; 2; b
N2  - Jessica Restaino offers a snapshot of the first semester experiences of graduate student writing teachers as they navigate predetermined course syllabi and materials, the pressures of grading, the influences of foundational scholarship, and their own classroom authority. With rich qualitative data gathered from course observations, interviews, and correspondence, Restaino traces four graduate students' first experiences as teachers at a large, public university. Yet the circumstances and situations she relates will ring familiar at widely varying institutions. First Semester: Graduate Student
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