Harris Miles and Paine askampampnbsp What happens when the texts that students write become the focus of a writing course In response a distinguished group of scholarteachers suggests that teaching with students texts is not simply a classroom technique but a way of working with writing that defines composition as a field. In Teaching with Student Texts authors discuss ways of revaluing student writing as intellectual work of circulating student texts in the classroom and beyond and of changing our classroom practices by bringing student writings to the table. Together these essays articulate a variety of ways that student texts can take a central place in classroom work and can in the process redefine the ways our field talks about writing.