A Guide to Composition Pedagogies - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199922160 ISBN 13: 9780199922161

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Reflecting the rich complexity of contemporary college composition pedagogy, A Guide to Composition Pedagogies presents original essays on the most important approaches to teaching writing. Each essay is written by an experienced teacher/scholar and describes one of the major pedagogies employed today to familiarize newcomers with the topography of Composition Studies. An invaluable tool for graduate students and new teachers, this bibliographic resource provides an exceptional introduction to Composition Studies and the extensive range of available pedagogical approaches.

Now in its second edition, this guide substantially updates all chapters from the previous edition--on basic, collaborative, community-engaged, critical, expressive, feminist, process, Writing Across the Curriculum, and writing center pedagogies. It also features new chapters--"What Is Composition Pedagogy: An Introduction," "Genre," "Second Language Writing," "Literature and Writing," "New Media ," "Online and Hybrid," and "Research Writing"--and also an expanded chapter, "Rhetoric and Argumentation". The essays within now contain an increased focus on issues raised by diversity, each pedagogy's approach to assessment, and technology's effect on composition.

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Review:

"A Guide to Composition Pedagogies provides students with the theoretical framework that they will need to understand teaching composition and to develop their own pedagogical concepts. More importantly, it provides realistic, applicable examples of what can and does happen in composition classrooms and how instructors of composition shape students' college experiences as writers and thinkers."--Carol Zitzer-Comfort, California State University-Long Beach

"The second edition of A Guide offers a breadth of coverage, range of perspectives, and conciseness not found in many texts that help new and seasonsed composition teachers and scholars remain current on the climate of composition studies."--The Journal of Teaching Writing

About the Author:

Gary Tate is Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Emeritus Tutor at Texas Christian University, where he has taught since 1971. He is coeditor, with Edward Corbett and Nancy Meyers, of The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook 4e (OUP, 1999). He is well-known in the field for his work into composition pedagogies and working-class literature. Amy Rupiper-Taggart is Associate Professor of English and Director of First-Year Writing at North Dakota State University. Her research focuses on issues in composition pedagogy, including community engagement practices, and student and teacher reflection. She recently co-authored the research-writing textbook Research Matters with Rebecca Moore Howard. An article written with Hessler on formative assessment and student reflection recently appeared in the International Journal for the Scholarship ofTeaching and Learning; an article written with Margaret Lowry on teacher preparation appeared in WPA: Writing Program Administration. Kurt Schick is Director of the Learning Centers and Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, & Technical Communication at James Madison University, where he teaches courses in writing and consults with faculty who write or teach writing. H. Brooke Hessler is Professor of English and Eleanor Lou Carrithers Chair of Writing at Oklahoma City University, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in composition, visual rhetoric, and digital textuality. Her scholarship on composition pedagogy has appeared in a variety of edited collections and most recently (with Rupiper Taggart) in the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. In 2010 she was inducted into the DaVinci Institute for creativity and innovation in higher education. Her research centers on composition pedagogy and rhetorical ingenuity.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199922160
• ISBN 13: 9780199922161
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Tate Gary, Rupiper Taggart Amy, Schick Kurt, Hessler H. Brooke