Composition category: 2309 books
The Meaningful Writing Project
Learning, Teaching and Writing in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In the face of the continuing discourse of crisis in US education, The Meaningful Writing Project offers readers an affirming story of writing in higher education that shares students’ experiences in their own voices. In presenting the results of a three-year study consisting of surveys and interviews...
Assignments across the Curriculum
A National Study of College Writing
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
In Assignments across the Curriculum, Dan Melzer analyzes the rhetorical features and genres of writing assignments through the writing-to-learn and writing-in-the-disciplines perspectives. Presenting the results of his study of 2,101 writing assignments from undergraduate courses in the natural sciences,...
Reclaiming Accountability
Improving Writing Programs through Accreditation and Large-Scale Assessments
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Reclaiming Accountability brings together a series of critical case studies of writing programs that have planned, implemented, and/or assessed the impact of large-scale accreditation-supported initiatives. The book reimagines accreditation as a way to leverage institutional or programmatic change.
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Teaching Queer
Radical Possibilities for Writing and Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Teaching Queer looks closely at student writing, transcripts of class discussions, and teaching practices in first-year writing courses to articulate queer theories of literacy and writing instruction, while also considering the embodied actuality of being a queer teacher. Rather than positioning...
by Della Ata Khoury
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
REA's College & University Writing Super Review Get all you need to know with Super Reviews! 2nd Edition REA's College & University Writing Super Review contains an in-depth review that fully explains everything high school and college students need to know about the subject. Written in an easy-to-read...
by Derek Mueller, Andrea Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2017
Cross-Border Networks in Writing Studies coordinates mixed methods approaches to survey, interview, and case study data to study Canadian writing studies scholars. The authors argue for networked disciplinarity, the notion that ideas arise and flow through intellectual networks that connect scholars...
Around the Texts of Writing Center Work
An Inquiry-Based Approach to Tutor Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Around the Texts of Writing Center Work reveals the conceptual frameworks found in and created by ordinary writing center documents. The values and beliefs underlying course syllabi, policy statements, website copy and comments, assessment plans, promotional flyers, and annual reports critically...
Writing-Intensive
Becoming W-Faculty in a New Writing Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
In one of the few book-length studies of a major post-secondary writing-across-the-curriculum initiative from concept to implementation, Writing-Intensive traces the process of preparation for new writing requirements across the undergraduate curriculum at Simon Fraser University, a mid-sized Canadian...
Teaching Writing as Journey, Not Destination
Essays Exploring What “Teaching Writing” Means
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
American author Kurt Vonnegut has famously declared that writing is unteachable, yet formal education persists in that task. Teaching Writing as Journey, Not Destination is the culmination of P.L. Thomas’s experiences as both a writer and a teacher of writing reaching into the fourth decade of struggling...
by Peggy O'Neill, Cindy Moore, Brian Huot
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
While most English professionals feel comfortable with language and literacy theories, assessment theories seem more alien. English professionals often don’t have a clear understanding of the key concepts in educational measurement, such as validity and reliability, nor do they understand the statistical...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This handbook brings together scholars from around the globe who here contribute to our
understanding of how digital rhetoric is changing the landscape of writing. Increasingly, all of us
must navigate networks of information, compose not just with computers but an array of
mobile devices, increase...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Keywords in Writing Studies is an exploration of the principal ideas and ideals of an emerging academic field as they are constituted by its specialized vocabulary. A sequel to the 1996 work Keywords in Composition Studies, this new volume traces the evolution of the field’s lexicon, taking into...
On Location
Theory and Practice in Classroom-Based Writing Tutoring
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Classroom-based writing tutoring is a distinct form of writing support, a hybrid instructional method that engages multiple voices and texts within the college classroom. Tutors work on location in the thick of writing instruction and writing activity.
On Location is the first volume to discuss...
Networked Process
Dissolving Boundaries of Process and Post-Process
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Helen Foster problematizes one of the dominant metaphors in rhetoric and composition, the notion of “writing process,” and, in turn, offers an important and engaging new approach for the future of the discipline, one that directly addresses the complexities, challenges, and opportunities for writing research in a postmodern world.