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 Students, Teaching Writing, and the
Challenge of Middle Ground "presents a fresh and challenging
theoretical approach to understanding and improving the preparation
of graduate students for the writing classroom. Restaino uses a
three-part theoretical construct--labor, action, and work, as
defined in Hannah Arendt's work of political philosophy, "The Human
Condition--"as a lens for reading graduate students' struggles to
balance their new responsibilities as teachers with their
concurrent roles as students. Arendt's concepts serve as access
points for analysis, raising important questions about graduate
student writing teachers' first classrooms and uncovering
opportunities for improved support and preparation by university
writing programs.
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