Tassoni, "A Course in Crisis: Deconcising 'College Composition' and 'Creative Writing'"
Tassoni describes a strategy he uses to force students to take responsibility for their writing/revision choices. His students keep notebooks in which they write responses to Tassoni about readings, class activities, and their writing; he, in turn, responds to their responses and all of their other writing in the notebook. Students and Tassoni respond back and forth to each other as long as the dialog is productive. In this way, the teacher can help students negotiate how they make meaning and how readers make meaning from wheat they’ve written. This approach explicitly connects revisioning and revising, although the technique is very teacher-centered, with the student being in dialog only with the teacher, responding only to the teacher’s questions and concerns. Tassoni uses this method in his writing and literature class, in which he has students write creative and more standard college compositions.
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