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"First time up?"--an insider's friendly question from 1960s counter-culture--perfectly captures the spirit of this book. A short, supportive, ... More

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This book tells how to develop and administer a comprehensive college writing program to improve student writing, promote critical thinking, and ... More

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The argument of this book is that the earliest tradition of Western rhetoric, the classical perspective of Aristotle and Cicero, continues to have ... More

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There's no denying that television is a forceful presence in students' lives. Yet in writing classrooms the assumption is often that television is ... More

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Learning to Argue in Higher Education was written to allow for a cross-fertilization of ideas about argument between different disciplines and ... More

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Wendy Bishop and David Starkey have created a remarkable resource volume for creative writing students and other writers just getting started. In two ... More

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This collection of academic articles shows the range of Murray's interests and concerns as he looks at writing from the writer's as well as the ... More

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This book offers a revolutionary inductive approach to teaching composition, in particular the essay.

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Thirteen Weeks, refers, with ironic intent, to the typical first semester college writing course, to the fanciful belief and expectation that ... More

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Essential reading for teachers interested in the methods and problems of composition but unfamiliar with its current theoretical backgrounds.

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This book offers a revolutionary inductive approach to teaching composition, in particular the essay.

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Composition research consistently demonstrates that the social context of writing determines the majority of conventions any writer must observe. ... More

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Challenging more limited approaches to service learning, this book examines writing instruction in the context of universities fully engaged in ... More

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If you're a writing tutor, here's a way to take everyday events in your tutoring sessions and connect them to good theory and practice.

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The work of Writing Program Administration, however, overturns that perception, for it demands that theory be integrated within everyday decision ... More

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The audience--the community of readers who will use the texts a writer produces--must be an important influence on the writer for his or her work to ... More

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Second Shift is the first study to combine historical and contemporary perspectives on pedagogical and political issues that affect college-level ... More

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The title of these eleven essays and talks comes from Vygotsky's famous observation that writing is elaborating the web of meaning.

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Murray is one of the pioneers of a process approach to teaching writing, and this book brings together twenty-nine of the articles, some previously ... More

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Bowden looks at what voice is in its various permutations, exploring where it comes from and exposing some of the key assumptions about writing and ... More

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A gathering of 50 key articles from the newsletter of the English Composition Board of The University of Michigan.

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