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Mainstreaming Basic Writers
At a time when various political and administrative bodies are calling for the dissolution of basic writing instruction on four-year college campuses, the need for information concerning the options available to university decision makers has become more and more pressing. A wide range of professional judgments surrounding this situation exits. Mainstreaming Basic Writers: Politics and Pedagogies of Access presents a range of positions taken in response to these recent challenges and offers alternative configurations for writing instruction that attempt to do justice to both students' needs and administrative constraints. Chapter authors include, for the most part, professionals entrusted wi...
Writing Program Architecture
Writing Program Architecture offers an unprecedented abundance of information concerning the significant material, logistical, and rhetorical features of writing programs. Presenting the realities of thirty diverse and award-winning programs, contributors to the volume describe reporting lines, funding sources, jurisdictions, curricula, and other critical programmatic matters and provide insight into their program histories, politics, and philosophies. Each chapter opens with a program snapshot that includes summary demographic and historical information and then addresses the profile of the WPA, program conception, population served, funding, assessment, technology, curriculum, and more. Th...
Design Discourse
Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing addresses the complexities of developing professional and technical writing programs. The essays in the collection offer reflections on efforts to bridge two cultures—what the editors characterize as the “art and science of writing”—often by addressing explicitly the tensions between them. Design Discourse offers insights into the high-stakes decisions made by program designers as they seek to “function at the intersection of the practical and the abstract, the human and the technical.”
GenAdmin
GenAdmin: Theorizing WPA Identities in the Twenty-First Century examines identity formation in a generation of rhetoric and composition professionals who have undergone explicit preparation in scholarly dimensions of writing program administration. The authors argue for “GenAdmin” both as an intellectual identity and as a contingent philosophy of writing program work. GenAdmin alternates between traditional chapters and accompanying “Interludes,” each of which offers extended illuminations of the single conflict or theoretical question integral to the preceding chapter.
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Don't Call it that
This volume addresses the role of the English professor in teaching graduate students in the "how-to-teach-writing" introductory courses. The essays argue that, far from a simple introduction about how to teach writing, the courses often serve as an introduction to composition theory, to research methodologies, to pedagogical theory, and to the histories of composition studies as a discipline.
Critical Thinking and Writing
While some writing books present isolated examples of critical thinking, Cavina's Critical Thinking and Writing systematically links concepts of critical thinking and writing through all phases of the writing process. By emphasizing those concepts that are of the greatest use to writers and by treating these concepts sequentially, the book maximizes your understanding of how critical thinking can sharpen your writing. Critical Thinking and Writing begins in Part One with a clear outline of the rhetorical/writing process and how it relates to the notion of critical thinking. In Parts Two and Three, you will focus on the specifics of sentence construction and word usage. Part Four includes readings by professional and student writers that offer a multitude of perspectives and topic coverage. Taking a discovery approach, Critical Thinking and Writing encourages you to expand and reinforce your writing skills through many individual and collaborative activities.
Keys to Successful Writing
"Keys to Successful Writing" helps readers become better writers by presenting simple, consistently applicable tools and techniques. The book's organization flows from simple to more complex essays. The text focuses on five "keys" to successful essay writingpurpose, focus, material, structure, and style. This distinctive heuristic, developed by the author helps readers focus on the skills and ways of thinking that will make them stronger writers. Featuring a user-friendly, highly-accessible writing style, the text presents clear, specific strategies for writing combined with examples that are engaging, provocative and contemporary. An editing handbook is also included for a complete writing resource. A series of interactive writing exercises and activities and longer writing assignments give the text a predictable organizational structure that's easy to learn from. For those interested in improving their writing skills."
