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More research for my class. Full title: Through Teachers' Eyes: Portraits of Writing Teachers at Work. This was published in 1986 and is a largely narrative account of Perl's and Wilson's ethnographic research in the classrooms of writing teachers on Long Island. This book focuses on six teachers out of ten total that they studied; students ranged in age from first grade to high school seniors. Each teacher struggled to teach writing in a way that would be meaningful to the students. Not every teacher succeeded. Overall, a really neat look at how different teachers teach writing.
One thing that completely astonished me, though--this research was done around 1979-1983. So the students had to keep recopying their drafts by hand, and only typed work (or sent it off for typing) when it was final and ready to be "published". I just had never thought about that. I kind of wish Perl and Wilson would do this research all over again, to see how writing processes have changed with the advent of the computer becoming widely available in the classroom and at home, and how that affects the teaching too.
One thing that completely astonished me, though--this research was done around 1979-1983. So the students had to keep recopying their drafts by hand, and only typed work (or sent it off for typing) when it was final and ready to be "published". I just had never thought about that. I kind of wish Perl and Wilson would do this research all over again, to see how writing processes have changed with the advent of the computer becoming widely available in the classroom and at home, and how that affects the teaching too.
