Higher Learning: Reading and Writing about College - Couverture souple

See, Patti; Taylor, Bruce

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0205287891 ISBN 13 : 9780205287895

Editeur : Pearson, 2001

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Patti See teaches courses in critical thinking, learning strategies, transitions to college, and third-wave feminism.  She also supervises tutoring programs for first-generation/low-income students, multicultural students, and students with disabilities.

    Her stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Salon Magazine, Women's Studies Quarterly, Journal of Developmental Education, The Wisconsin Academy Review, and HipMama, as well as other magazines and anthologies.  She speaks at universities and conferences on a variety of topics, including first-year experience, critical thinking, third-wave feminism, and the depiction of masculinities in popular film.  She was the recipient of the 2004 Academic Staff Excellence in Performance Award from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and the 2006 University of Wisconsin-System Regent Award for Excellence.  

 

Bruce Taylor, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, has taught courses including first-year experience, introduction to college writing, creative writing, American literature, as well as in the Honors Program in his thirty-five years as a college teacher.  He is the author of six books of poetry, including Pity the World (Plainview Press) and This Day (Juniper Press); he is the editor of seven anthologies, including the UPRIVER series of Wisconsin Poetry and Prose, and Wisconsin Poetry, published by the Wisoconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters..  His poetry, prose, and translations have appeared in such places as Carve Magazine, The Chicago Review, 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.  He 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. He was the recipient of the 2004 Excellence in Scholarship Award from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and the 2006 Major Acheivment Award from the Council of Wisconsin Writers for his lifetime of work as a poet, teacher, and community arts advocate.

 

We wwould love to hear from you. Please e-mail the authors with any feedback or suggestions at seepk@uwec.edu or taylorb@uwec.edu

Quatrième de couverture

While attending a Written Communications course at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, one of Patti See's students complained, "How come we never read about people like us?" See and co-author Bruce Taylor began searching for "coming of age" stories about college students. Four years later, Higher Learning was born.

After using several selections from Higher Learning in two summer writing courses and three semesters of College Writing, the response from students has been phenomenal! The following student comments underscore the student appeal of this book:

"The reader Higher Learning is something that I will probably pick up again and read through."

"Within the first week of having the reader, I had already read the entire thing."

"It wasn't something that told me how to live my life and how to study, but it showed others (sic) past experiences."

"What this helped me realize is that little steps can be just as magnificent as those that shake the earth."

The authors are convinced that reading about the "experience" of college prepares students, especially freshmen, to better understand and deal with their own experiences. They also believe that exposing students to a wide variety of situations experienced by their peers, nurtures a sense of empathy and community that is sometimes lacking in a diverse world. Whether as a component of a student success course or a freshman writing course, the challenges and problems explored by the selections in this book offer valuable insight for any student.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0205287891
• ISBN 13: 9780205287895
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 338
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Riccardo Bacigalupo; riccardo.bacigalupo@sanoma.it; ; Sanoma Italia Via Arconati, 1 �; Milano; 20135; Italie