Teaching and Learning Argumentative Writing in High School English Language Arts Classrooms

George Newell, David Bloome, Alan Hirvela

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781138017429
• eBook ISBN: 9781317702665
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Education General
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Focused on the teaching and learning argumentative writing in grades 9-12, this important contribution to literacy education research and classroom practice offers a new perspective, a set of principled practices, and case studies of excellent teaching. The case studies illustrate teaching and learning argumentative writing as the construction of knowledge and new understandings about experiences, ideas, and texts. Six themes key to teaching argumentative writing as a thoughtful, multi?leveled practice for deep learning and expression are presented: teaching and learning argumentative writing as social practice, teachers' epistemological beliefs about argumentative writing, variations in instructional chains, instructional conversations in support of argumentative writing as deep learning and appreciation of multiple perspectives, contextualized analysis of argumentative writing, and the teaching and learning of argumentative writing and the construction of rationalities.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Artist’s Statement about the Cover
• Introduction
• 1 Researching the Teaching and Learning of Argumentative Writing as Social Practice
• 2 Epistemologies and Beliefs about the Teaching and Learning of “Good” Argumentative Writing
• 3 Curricular and Instructional Organization: Instructional Chains in the Teaching and Learning of Argumentative Writing
• 4 Instructional Conversations and the Teaching and Learning of Argumentative Writing
• 5 How Instructional Contexts Shape the Structure and Content of Students’ Argumentative Writing
• 6 The Teaching and Learning of Argumentative Writing and the (Re)Construction of Rationalities
• 7 Conclusion: From Essay Structures to Social Practices and Rationalities for Argumentation and Argumentative Writing in the High School English Language Arts Classroom
• Appendix A: Methods and Procedures
• Appendix B: Information about the Participating Teachers and Students
• Appendix C: Research Instruments
• References
• About the Authors
• Index