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Closing the Gap: English Educators Address the Tensions Between Teacher Preparation and Teaching Writing in Secondary Schools
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Karen Keaton Jackson
Karen Keaton Jackson
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Emerald Publishing Limited
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https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-60752-744-2
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978-1-60752-744-2
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978-1-59311-782-5
Publication date:
2007
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Chapter 5: Crossing Boundaries: English Education, Teaching Writing, and Connections to the “Real World”

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Kia Jane Richmond
Kia Jane Richmond
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Kia Jane Richmond
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    2007
© 2007 Emerald Publishing Limited
2007
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English Educators should consider how a focus on writing can help candidates to connect theory and practice. In this chapter, I demonstrate how bridging the gap between writing theories taught at the university level and practices taking place in the secondary schools can be beneficial to both teacher candidates and English Language Arts teachers in the field.

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