Responding to Student Writers | Nancy Sommers
Join Bedford author Nancy Sommers (The Bedford Handbook, Rules for Writers, A Writer's Reference, Pocket Style Manual) as she discusses strategies for responding to student papers effectively--whether you plan to teach online in the short term or for the duration.
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About Nancy SommersNancy Sommers, who has taught composition and directed composition programs for thirty years, now teaches in Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. She led Harvard’s Expository Writing Program for twenty years, directing the first-year writing program and establishing Harvard’s WAC program. A two-time Braddock Award winner, Sommers is well known for her research and publications on student writing. Her articles “Revision Strategies of Student and Experienced Writers” and “Responding to Student Writing” are two of the most widely read and anthologized articles in the field of composition. Recently she has been exploring different audiences through blogging and through publishing in popular media. Sommers is the lead author on Hacker handbooks, all published by Bedford/St. Martin’s, and is coauthor of Fields of Reading, Tenth Edition (2013). |
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