17 Facts About Sondra Perl

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Sondra Perl is a Professor Emerita of English at Lehman College and director of the Ph.

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Sondra Perl's is the founder and former director of the New York City Writing Project.

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Sondra Perl's writes about the composing process as well as pedagogical approaches to implementing composition theories into writing practices in the classroom.

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Sondra Perl's began graduate studies at New York University in 1971 in a Masters in Arts and Sciences program.

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Sondra Perl's dissertation, inspired by her own teaching experience and the work of composition theorist Janet Emig, consisted of a series of case studies on the writing process.

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In 1978, Sondra Perl moved to Lehman College, where she co-founded the New York City Writing Project, of which she served as co-director, with John Brereton and Richard Sterling.

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Sondra Perl's spearheaded the CUNY Writing Across the Curriculum program, mandated by the CUNY Board of Trustees in 1999.

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Sondra Perl has earned multiple honors and awards for her work as a professor, advocate, educator, and composition theorist.

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Sondra Perl is a Guggenheim Fellow and Carnegie Foundation's Professor of the Year for New York State.

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Sondra Perl's won the 2016 Exemplar Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication, as well.

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11.

Sondra Perl argues "felt sense, " or the feelings and reactions surrounding the writing manifested when the writer rereads the work, inform the writing process in a way that relies on a holistic sense of the writing already present in order to move forward.

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Sondra Perl describes felt sense as the physical reactions writers experience to their writing, such as when they pause while reading their work aloud.

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In understanding the composing process and how students write, Sondra Perl employed a think-aloud protocol by asking students to speak out loud as they composed.

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Sondra Perl developed her own writing process based on her research of the recursive writing process and its elements of felt sense.

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Sondra Perl discovered that the recursive writing process, or returning to their topic, earlier writing, or felt sense, helps students make meaning in their writing.

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Sondra Perl explores the recursive writing process and internally-addressed 'felt sense' contribute to the meaning of piece of writing.

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17.

Sondra Perl's describes her pedagogical approaches to addressing Nazism's role in the past, present, and future, particularly with students whose ancestral pasts are so intimately connected to its prejudices.

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