PIPPIN PUBLISHING

LIFEWRITING: LEARNING THROUGH PERSONAL NARRATIVE

ISBN: 0-88751-042-6    View Graphical Site    Go Back


Descript:
We do it all the time: telling the stories of our lives is fundamental to communicating with others. In Lifewriting, Sydney Butler and Roy Bentley explain how teachers can take advantage of this natural process to enrich classroom writing programs. Special chapters explain how lifewriting can be used with ESL students and adults, as well as how computers can enhance this unique approach to motivating students to think of themselves  -  indeed, to see themselves  -   as real writers.

Audience: Writers and would-be writers of any age with their own stories to tell.

Paperback  6" x 9"


Table of contents:
What Is Lifewriting?
 
Why Lifewriting in Schools?
  Where in the School?
  The Values of Lifewriting

Beginning Lifewriting
  Overcoming Writing Apprehension
  A First Experiment in Lifewriting - "Places"
  Ownership of the Writing Topic
  Pre-writing: Idea-Generation
  Telling Writing
  First Draft Lifewriting - " An Important Place"

Developing Lifewriting Units and Programs
  Keys to Unlocking Memories and Ideas
  Questions for Unlocking Memories and Ideas
  The Lifewriting Unit and Program

Collaboration in Lifewriting
  What Sorts of Collaboration?
  Conferences

Practical Approaches in the Classroom
  Initial Approaches
  Making It Easy
  Making It Look Good
  Success for All
  Privacy or Publication?

Extending Lifewriting across the Curriculum
  Writing to Learn
  Lifewriting as Exposition
  Lifewriting in the Fine Arts Program
  Lifewriting in the Sciences
  Lifewriting in the Practical Arts
  Lifewriting in the Humanities
  Lifewriting and Career and Personal Planning

Lifewriting and Computers
  Keyboarding
  Introductory Activities
  Computer Collaboration
  Revision
  Publication
  Communicating beyond the Classroom

Evaluating Lifewriting
  What about Mechanics?
  The Writing Portfolio

Lifewriting for ESL Students
  Communicative Approaches to Teaching ESL
  Helping ESL Students
  Lifewriting for EFL Students

Lifewriting for Adults
  Motivation through Lifewriting
  The Forms of Lifewriting
  The Themes of Lifewriting
  The Lifewriting Resource Kit
  Lifelines

Lifewriting for Teachers
  Extending the Boundaries
  An Educational Context
  Teachers' Stories


Review:
"This book is a particularly rich resource for us to draw upon. It is also especially timely, given the importance which personal narratives are taking on in the educational process." -- Alan Maley in The English Teacher