Writing Your Way Through College: A Student's Guide - Softcover

Fontaine, Sheryl; Smith, Cherryl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0867095911 ISBN 13: 9780867095913

Publisher: Boynton/Cook Publishers Inc US, 2008

Synopsis

Writing academic essays in college often seems mysterious to students who do not yet understand the process of developing an idea into a finished piece of reasoned prose. Writing Your Way Through College demystifies that process and enables teachers to help students "invent the university" as they reinvent themselves as proficient writers and rhetorical problem solvers. Writing Your Way Through College offers instructors a set of careful lessons that draw on current disciplinary knowledge in composition and rhetoric. Sheryl Fontaine and Cherryl Smith provide a classroom-centered text that guides students through progressively more complex, evidence-based writing. Writing Your Way Through College offers students and teachers: practical lessons on writing and learning

• a set of assignments that build incrementally
• a support system for new instructors
• accessible information about college writing
• a flexible approach to the classroom.

In a concise, readable format, Writing Your Way Through College offers insights into how individuals negotiate language communities so that students can better master the conventions and rhetorical characteristics of academic writing. A creative and effective template for the teaching of writing, Writing Your Way Through College belongs on every shelf and in every classroom.

About this title

About the Authors

Sheryl I. Fontaine is the coauthor or coeditor of two Boynton/Cook titles: Writing Your Way Through College (2008) and Foregrounding Ethical Awareness in the Composition Classroom (1998). She is Professor of English at California State University, Fullerton, has directed its Writing Center and now teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in writing. Her teaching and research center on the discipline of composition, writing program administration, composing pedagogy, responding to writing, and the relationship between reading and writing. Sheryl has published several articles and books relating to the profession and the teaching of composition, including Writing Ourselves into the Story: Unheard Voices from Composition Studies (1993).

Cherryl Smith is coauthor of Writing Your Way Through College (2008). She is Professor of English at California State University, Sacramento and director of the Writing Center. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in composition, rhetoric, and creative writing. She taught previously at Harvard University and California State University, Northridge, and coordinated programs of the South Coast Writing Project. Cherryl has published articles about writing program administration and teaching writing and coauthored Shoptalk for College Writers with Sheryl Fontaine. Her recent book of poetry is After Being Somewhere Else.

Edition details

• Publisher: Boynton/Cook Publishers Inc US
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0867095911
• ISBN 13: 9780867095913
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 170