People
ProfessorsAnn Feldman |
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601 South Morgan Street (MC 162) |
Associate
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Teaching of writing |
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Ann Feldman directs the First-Year Writing Program at UIC. Her scholarly interests include writing in the disciplines, genre theory, service learning, higher education, and social theories of writing. As the Director of the First-Year Writing Program, she teaches the graduate seminar to train new teaching assistants, develops curricula, and assesses learning for the program's 2,500 students. She has written two textbooks that offer a conceptual framework for the writing program's required courses: Writing and Learning in the Disciplines (HarperCollins, 1996) and In Context: Participating in Cultural Conversations (with Nancy Downs and Ellen McManus, Addison-Wesley Longman, 2002). UIC's First-Year Writing Program asks students to situate writing in current, local contexts, to take a position or craft an argument, and to produce a variety of genres: essays, reviews, proposals, feature stories, and opinion pieces. Currently, Ann Feldman is working on a book, Ordinary Writing in the Engaged University, that looks at how writing programs in metropolitan settings can recapture a sense of the ordinary - writing that has real consequences and that offers a way to participate effectively in civic society as well as in academic contexts. Ann Feldman's earlier work on cognition and learning focused on writing processes. An edited volume, Writing in Real Time (Ablex, 1987; published under Ann Matsuhashi) discussed cognitive approaches to writing as did a group of journal articles on empirical research and theoretical perspectives.
PUBLICATIONS
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Making Writing Matter |
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In Context: Participating in Cultural Conversations |
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Writing and Learning in the Disciplines |
