A CHOICE OF ROLES FOR TEACHERS OF WRITING

Authors

  • Andrea A. Lunsford University of British Columbia

Abstract

It was from British Columbia that the first rumblings of discontent were heard in Canada from university teachers who cared about writing. Given their head start in active inquiry into the state of writing abilities among undergraduates, the university writing courses there command a special interest and attention. Andrea Lunsford discusses with calm lucidity the full implications of the apprentice model of instruction which she practises, deploying both the authenticity of her experience and its authority in well-documented theory. This is a thoroughly teacherly prescription for practices which are less familiar in our universities than they may be in schools, and are all the more welcome for their academic robes.

Author Biography

Andrea A. Lunsford, University of British Columbia

Andrea A. Lunsford, who is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, is especially interested in basic writing and nineteenth century rhetoric. She has published several articles on these topics in the principal journals of North America and is co-author with Janet Emig and Janice Lauer of Four Worlds of Writing, a rhetoric text due to appear in 1979.

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Published

1979-01-01

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Lunsford, A. A. (1979). A CHOICE OF ROLES FOR TEACHERS OF WRITING. McGill Journal of Education / Revue Des Sciences De l’éducation De McGill, 14(001). Retrieved from https://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/7252

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Vol. 14 No. 001 (1979)

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Articles

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