Rhetoric Review Mar 1996

Teacher response as conversation: More than casual talk, an exploration

Richard Straub

Abstract

It has become a commonplace in scholarship on teacher response: viewing comments as a between teacher and student, an ongoing discussion between the teacher reader and the student writer, a conversation. Erika Lindemann advises teachers to make comments that create a kind of dialogue between teacher and student and keep the lines of communication open (216). Chris Anson encourages teachers to write comments that are more casual than formal, as if rhetorically sitting next to the writer, collaborating, suggesting,

Journal
Rhetoric Review
Published
1996-03-01
DOI
10.1080/07350199609389071
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Open Access
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teacher development revision
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