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Using a process-writing approach, this third-year composition text will help students master their writing skills in order to become confident authors, who have found their voice in written French. The text is set up in a workbook format and is written entirely in French, except for the first chapter. Each chapter begins and ends with a creative writing exercise. In between these "book-ends", students will broaden their repertoire of related speech acts, vocabulary, grammatical structures and stylistic elements as illustrated by their usage a literary piece, journalistic selection, or informal writing, drawn from the rich repertoire of Francophone (written) production (expression).

H. Jay Siskin (Ph.D., Cornell) is Professor of French and Program Chair of World Languages at Cabrillo College. He is the author of five textbooks in French, as well as numerous articles and reviews that have appeared in such publications as THE FRENCH REVIEW, FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS, and the PMLA. Prof. Siskin serves as chair of the Modern Language Association’s Division on the Teaching of Language, a member of that association’s Committee on Awards and Honors and its Delegate Assembly.

Cheryl Krueger is associate professor of French at the University of Virginia, where she teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate level courses on French language, literature, culture and cinema. She has served as chair of the Department of French Language and Literature and as director of undergraduate programs. In addition, she is part of the editorial board of DIX-NEUF, (JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF DIX-NEUVIÉMISTES), has served on the AAUSC editorial board and is an elected member of the MLA's 19th-Century French Literature Division Executive Committee. Krueger is author of PERSPECTIVES ON TEACHING LANGUAGE AND CONTENT (Yale University Press, 2020) and THE ART OF PROCRASTINATION: BAUDELAIRE'S POETRY IN PROSE (University of Delaware Press, 2007); editor of APPROACHES TO TEACHING BAUDELAIRE'S PROSE POEMS (MLA, 2017); and co-author of MISE-EN-SCÈNE: CINÉMA ET LECTURE. Her articles have appeared in such journals as DIX-NEUF, FRENCH FORUM, FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS, LITERATURE/FILM QUARTERLY, MODERN LANGUAGES OPEN, NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES, ROMANCE NOTES, WOMEN IN FRENCH STUDIES and LITTERATURE. Krueger’s current research focuses on 19th-century French literature and culture, French cinema, and the senses, olfaction and perfume. Her interest in helping students find their voice in French developed over the many years she served as language program director at UVA. Her approach to teaching writing is informed by a combination of research in SLA and plenty of practice experimenting with new techniques and course design. Cheryl advocates the book's interactive, process-writing for writers at any level -- from students just beginning to professionals writing for publication.

Maryse Fauvel is professor emerita in French and Francophone studies at the College of William and Mary, where she served as chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures from 2013-2017. She has taught advanced writing courses as well as 20th-century French literature, women writers, French cinema, European cinema, literary theory, secrets and revelations, and ecocriticism. Her research areas include literature and the visual arts, cinema, contemporary women writers and filmmakers, postmodernism and postcolonial cultures. In addition to numerous articles, Fauvel published EXPOSER L'AUTRE: ESSAI SUR LA CITÉ NATIONALE DE L' HISTOIRE DE L'IMMIGRATION ET LE MUSÉE DU QUAI BRANLY (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2014); A VOUS DE VOIR: DE L'IDÉE AU PROJET FILMIQUE (Paris: Casteilla, 2010), co-authored with Martin and Martin; and SCÈNES D' INTÉRIEUR: SIX ROMANCIERS DES ANNÉES 1980-1990 (Birmingham: Summa, 2007). She received a B.A. and M.A. from CAPES Universite de Paris and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.