Article
The Reading Labs: Pedagogical History and Humane Design
WPA: Writing Program Administration
(2022)
Abstract
This brief essay describes Reading Labs, a pedagogical intervention implemented to support novice social science students with reading complex primary legal documents and composing analytic summaries and other collegiate writing. In this overview, the authors highlight the social nature of learning: how meanings were negotiated among participants deciphering laws and court opinions, how questions and peer feedback helped sharpen arguments and voice in students’ written work. In so doing, the authors evoke Mike Rose’s own work in writing programs across levels, relying on small, intimate groupings of students, seri- ous regard given to their intellectual efforts including errors, and a pedagogy marked by encouragement and gentle questioning.
Keywords
- Literacies,
- Higher Education
Disciplines
Publication Date
Spring 2022
Citation Information
Luis E. Poza and Manuel Luis Espinoza. "The Reading Labs: Pedagogical History and Humane Design" WPA: Writing Program Administration Vol. 45 Iss. 2 (2022) p. 59 - 62 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/luis_poza/55/