Methods for Teaching Travel Literature and Writing: Exploring the World and Self: 8 (Travel Writing Across the Disciplines: Theory and Pedagogy) - Softcover

Groom, Eileen L.

 
9780820470863: Methods for Teaching Travel Literature and Writing: Exploring the World and Self: 8 (Travel Writing Across the Disciplines: Theory and Pedagogy)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0820470864 ISBN 13: 9780820470863
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2005

Synopsis

The contributors to Methods for Teaching Travel Literature and Writing: Exploring the World and Self discuss how and why they have integrated travel literature and writing into their courses.

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About the Author

Eileen Groom received her Doctor of Arts degree in English from Idaho State University and currently is a professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona. She has integrated both the reading and writing of travel literature into many of her courses and has written articles and given presentations on the value of this genre. She recently published In the Air, Your Stories: A Talisman, a collection of essays about flying with the goal of soothing the airborne. Other focuses of her academic career have been writing fiction and nonfiction and the teaching of writing. She frequently has her students write letter/essays to real people to promote writing with a purpose.

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Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0820470864
ISBN 13 
9780820470863
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
182
Editor
Groom Eileen L.