Learning to Write/Writing to Learn

by Gordon M. Pradl and John S. Mayher

Learning to Write/Writing to Learn provides a basic guide to writing as a way of learning, drawing the reader into an expanded notion of what writing is and how it is created. As you read the chapters, the ideas seem at first only a synthesis of masters like Elbow, Emig, Murray, Graves, Britton, and Moffett. But upon closer look, there is more to the book than a litany of already published ideas. Mayher, Lester, and Pradl use their own means of organization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0867090731
• ISBN13: 9780867090734
• Release Date: October 1983
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good reference book

This book was written in 1983, and is probably more relevant today than when it was written. Every teacher, regardless of subject taught, ought to read this book. It lays out for the reader the importance of incorporating writing into your subject material. I give it 5 stars.