Stories from First-year Composition

by Jo-Anne Kerr

Author	: Jo-Anne Kerr
Publisher	:
Total Pages	:
Release	: 2020
Genre	: Critical pedagogy
ISBN	: 9781607329800

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"Stories from First-Year Composition: Pedagogies that Foster Student Agency and Writing Identity counters perceptions of first-year composition (FYC) as a service course that prepares students for college writing. The collection identifies a new FYC "service", one that accommodates the realities of writing both within and outside of the academy. The collection also offers insights into effective FYC pedagogies and opportunities for readers to consider and think about their own teaching and their identities as FYC instructors. "Reflect Before Reading" prompts and questions and after-reading activities, including "Questions for Discussion and Reflection," writing activities that ask readers to apply ideas shared in chapters to their own FYC courses, suggestions for further reading, and multimedia components (accessible to readers through links within the collection itself and as resources available on the book's website) invite readers to interact with chapters and to develop deeper and more enriched understandings of their FYC teaching and an accompanying sense of agency so that they not only can teach FYC effectively but also advocate for its value and relevance"--

First-Year Composition

by Deborah Coxwell-Teague

Author	: Deborah Coxwell-Teague
Publisher	: Parlor Press LLC
Total Pages	: 245
Release	: 2014-05-01
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 1602355215

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First-Year Composition: From Theory to Practice’s combination of theory and practice provides readers an opportunity to hear twelve of the leading theorists in composition studies answer, in their own voices, the key question of what it is they hope to accomplish in a first-year composition course. In addition, these chapters, and the accompanying syllabi, provide rich insights into the classroom practices of these theorists.

How to Read Like a Writer

by Mike Bunn

Author	: Mike Bunn
Publisher	: The Saylor Foundation
Total Pages	: 17
Release	:
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	:

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When you Read Like a Writer (RLW) you work to identify some of the choices the author made so that you can better understand how such choices might arise in your own writing. The idea is to carefully examine the things you read, looking at the writerly techniques in the text in order to decide if you might want to adopt similar (or the same) techniques in your writing. You are reading to learn about writing. Instead of reading for content or to better understand the ideas in the writing (which you will automatically do to some degree anyway), you are trying to understand how the piece of writing was put together by the author and what you can learn about writing by reading a particular text. As you read in this way, you think about how the choices the author made and the techniques that he/she used are influencing your own responses as a reader. What is it about the way this text is written that makes you feel and respond the way you do?

The Writing Studio Sampler

by Mark Sutton

Author	: Mark Sutton
Publisher	: CSU Open Press
Total Pages	: 0
Release	: 2018
Genre	: Critical pedagogy
ISBN	: 9781607328964

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Presents interrelated, cross-referenced essays illustrating writing studio methodologies.

English Composition

by Ann Inoshita

Author	: Ann Inoshita
Publisher	:
Total Pages	: 0
Release	: 2019-05-31
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 9781948027069

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This OER textbook has been designed for students to learn the foundational concepts for English 100 (first-year college composition). The content aligns to learning outcomes across all campuses in the University of Hawai'i system. It was designed, written, and edited during a three day book sprint in May, 2019.

Intellectual Creativity in First-Year Composition Classes

by Heidi Wall Burns

Author	: Heidi Wall Burns
Publisher	: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages	: 157
Release	: 2016-10-12
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1475824971

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Today’s first year composition classrooms are largely reflective of the writing pedagogy that has been used for the last 200 years. Unfortunately, this methodology does not meet the research or writing needs of today’s college and university students. Burns and MacBride were determined to make their first year composition courses more relevant to their students and sought a way to revolutionize their syllabus to do so. Building on the work of Tom Romono, Nancy Mack, Camille Allen, Sirpa Grierson, Melinda Putz (and others), Burns and MacBride set out to determine if a multigenre research project could better teach their students research, writing, and critical thinking skills than a traditional research-based essay. The findings of their semester-long study indicated that not only does a MGRP teach these skills, but it far surpasses a traditional essay in teaching engagement, intellectual creativity, and transferable writing skills. Burns and MacBride demonstrate two different ways to integrate a multigenre research project into the college composition classroom.

Writing Program Administration

by Susan H. McLeod

Author	: Susan H. McLeod
Publisher	: Parlor Press LLC
Total Pages	: 171
Release	: 2007-03-16
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 1602350094

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This reference guide provides a comprehensive review of the literature on all the issues, responsibilities, and opportunities that writing program administrators need to understand, manage, and enact, including budgets, personnel, curriculum, assessment, teacher training and supervision, and more. Writing Program Administration also provides the first comprehensive history of writing program administration in U.S. higher education. Writing Program Administration includes a helpful glossary of terms and an annotated bibliography for further reading.

In the Archives of Composition

by Lori Ostergaard

Author	: Lori Ostergaard
Publisher	: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages	: 348
Release	: 2015-10-23
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 0822981017

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In the Archives of Composition offers new and revisionary narratives of composition and rhetoric's history. It examines composition instruction and practice at secondary schools and normal colleges, the two institutions that trained the majority of U.S. composition teachers and students during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing from a broad array of archival and documentary sources, the contributors provide accounts of writing instruction within contexts often overlooked by current historical scholarship. Topics range from the efforts of young women to attain rhetorical skills in an antebellum academy, to the self-reflections of Harvard University students on their writing skills in the 1890s, to a close reading of a high school girl's diary in the 1960s that offers a new perspective on curriculum debates of this period. Taken together, the chapters begin to recover how high school students, composition teachers, and English education programs responded to institutional and local influences, political movements, and pedagogical innovations over a one-hundred-and-thirty-year span.

Those Shoes

by Maribeth Boelts

Author	: Maribeth Boelts
Publisher	: Candlewick Press
Total Pages	: 41
Release	: 2016-10-11
Genre	: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN	: 0763691488

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But all the kids are wearing them! Any child who has ever craved something out of reach will relate to this warm, refreshingly realistic story. Features an audio read-along. "I have dreams about those shoes. Black high-tops. Two white stripes." All Jeremy wants is a pair of those shoes, the ones everyone at school seems to be wearing. But Jeremy’s grandma tells him they don’t have room for "want," just "need," and what Jeremy needs are new boots for winter. When Jeremy’s shoes fall apart at school, and the guidance counselor gives him a hand-me-down pair, the boy is more determined than ever to have those shoes, even a thrift-shop pair that are much too small. But sore feet aren’t much fun, and Jeremy comes to realize that the things he has -- warm boots, a loving grandma, and the chance to help a friend -- are worth more than the things he wants.