Nuts and Bolts: A Practical Guide to Teaching College Composition - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0867093218 ISBN 13 : 9780867093216

Editeur : Boynton/Cook Publishers Inc US, 1993

Synopsis

In Nuts Bolts, editor Thomas Newkirk details the evolution of the University of New Hampshire's writing program, drawing heavily from the oral culture -- or "lore" -- of the program. Then seven experienced practitioners contribute chapters dealing with the issues that beginning writing teachers often struggle with:

• How can I sequence a writing course?
• How can in-class writing exercises develop writing
• What is the place of reading in a writing course?
• What is my role in writing conferences?
• How can I help students self-evaluate?
• How do I teach editing?
• How should I grade?

Nuts Bolts deals with these questions in a lucid, jargon-free, and specific way. While filled with examples of student work and classroom exercises, it is more than a sampler of things that "work." Each contributor is careful to show how classroom work comes out of careful thinking about course objectives; readers are invited to eavesdrop on this decision making process.

An unabashedly practical book, Nuts Bolts will be the single most useful book a college writing teacher could own.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Thomas Newkirk is the bestselling author of Minds Made for Stories along with numerous other Heinemann titles, including Writing Unbound, Embarrassment, The Art of Slow Reading, The Performance of Self in Student Writing (winner of the NCTE's David H. Russell Award), and Misreading Masculinity. He taught writing at the University of New Hampshire for thirty-nine years, and founded the New Hampshire Literacy Institutes, a summer program for teachers. In addition to working as a teacher, writer, and editor, he has served as the chair of his local school board for seven years.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Boynton/Cook Publishers Inc US
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0867093218
• ISBN 13: 9780867093216
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Éditeur: Newkirk Thomas
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• Personne responsable: non disponible