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For courses in Freshman Orientation/Student Success/Freshman Composition.
This anthology of imaginative literature–by student as well as professional writers–contains stories, poems, drama, essays, letters, and memoirs about all aspects of college life in order to motivate students, especially first year students, to read, discuss, write, and think critically about the problems and challenges of succeeding in college. Historical and cultural diversity offers students a broader context in which to appreciate and understand the college experience. This 2nd edition includes 13 new pieces that have been class-tested.
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About the Author
Patti See teaches courses in critical thinking, learning strategies, transitions to college, and third-wave feminism. She also supervises tutoring programs for students of color; students with disabilities; and first-generation, low-income students.
Her stories, poems, and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. She speaks at universities and conferences on a variety of topics, including First-Year Experience, Third-Wave feminism, women in popular films, critical thinking, and creative writing. Patti was the recipient of the 2004 Academic Staff Excellence in Performance Award from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Bruce Taylor teaches courses in First-Year Experience, Introduction to College Writing, Creative Writing, and American Literature in the Honors Program. He is the author of five chapbooks of poetry; he is the editor of seven anthologies. His poetry, prose, and translations have appeared in such places as Carve Magazine, The Chicago Review, The Exquisite Corpse, The Nation Nerve, The New York Quarterly, The Northwest Review, Poetry, and E2ink-1: the Best of the Online Journals 2002.
He has also served as a member of the Literature Panel of the Wisconsin Arts Board and host of The Writer's Workshop: Wisconsin ETN, and he has served as program scholar and consultant for the Wisconsin Humanities Council, the Lila Wallace Foundation, the L.E. Phillips Library, and the Annenberg/CPB Project. Bruce has won awards and fellowships from the Wisconsin Arts Board, Fullbright-Hayes, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Bush Artist Foundation, and he was the recipient of the 2004 Excellence in Scholarship Award from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
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