The Ethics of Writing Instruction ― Issues in Theory and Practice

The chapters in this volume recognize that different contexts, sites, and institutional goals will raise different sets of questions and judgements about what constitutes ethical writing instruction, ethical response to written texts, and ethical evaluation of a writers process and products. They do not aim to resolve all the ethical questions that might arise in and about composition classrooms, but they present a panoply of views, arguments, and perspectives on what it means to talk about ethics in the writing classroom and thereby encourage writing teachers to consider the ethical dimensions of their own instructional practices.

MICHAEL A. PEMBERTON is Assistant Professor in the Writing and Linguistics department at Georgia Southern University, where he also directs the University Writing Center. He has published articles inCollege Compostition and Communication, The Writing Instructor, Research and Teaching in Developmental Education,Computers and Composition, and the Writing Center Journal. In addition to being a founding co-editor of the journalLanguage and Learning Across the Disciplines, he also writes a regular column called Writing Center Ethics in theWriting Lab Newsletter.