Product Description: _Reading the Past, Writing the Future_ celebrates NCTE's centennial by emphasizing the role the organization has played in brokering and advancing the many traditions and countertraditions engaging literacy educators since the organization was chartered in 1911...read more

From answering the question "Why teach writing?" to offering guidance in managing group work and responding to assignments, this remarkably successful text provides a comprehensive introduction to the teaching of writing. Now updated to incorporate the latest developments in the field, A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers describes in straightforward terms the cross-disciplinary scholarship that has reinvigorated composition teaching. Reflecting current views of writing as social interaction, this edition emphasizes workshops, collaborative learning, and holistic evaluation. Chapters on prewriting techniques, organizing material, paragraphing, sentence structure, words, and revising describe how the teacher can guide students through composing, while sections on rhetoric, cognition, and linguistics discuss theoretical principles that support classroom practices and make the teacher's performance effective. Treating both the theory and practice of writing, the author encourages teachers to adopt the methods that best meet their students' needs and to develop a style of teaching informed by knowledgeable decisions. Over forty percent of the text's material is new to this edition, offering composition scholars a broad range of techniques to encourage and motivate their students. Complete with an updated bibliography and a table of important dates in the history of composition, this classic work offers both prospective and seasoned writing teachers convenient access to recent scholarship in the field and inspires them to examine what it means to teach well. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Published for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, this 1990 volume lists and annotates 1,849 articles, books, dissertations, and papers. A group of 136 contributing bibliographers prepared the citations and annotations for all entries...read more

Product Description: Nine commissioned essays introduce the non-specialist to the rapidly evolving field of composition studies, discussing the nature of the field, the relationship between composition and rhetoric and between theory and practice, the history of the discipline, its bibliogrphic sources and problems, its methods of research, teaching writing, and the politics of the profession...read more

Product Description: Published for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, this volume offers teachers and researchers an annual classified listing of scholarship on written English and its teaching at the college level. The 1989 volume lists and annotates 1,857 articles, books, dissertations, and papers...read more

Product Description: Published for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, this bibliography offers teachers and researchers an annual classified listing of scholarship on written English and its teaching. This volume cites 1,799 titles that, with few exceptions, were published during the 1988 calendar year...read more

Product Description: Published for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, this bibliography offers teachers and researchers an annual classified listing of scholarship on written English and its teaching. This volume cites 1,799 titles that, with few exceptions, were published during the 1988 calendar year...read more

Product Description: Published by the Conference on College Composition and Communication, this publication offers teachers and researchers an annual classified listing of scholarship on written English and its teaching. This volume cites 1,815 titles that, with few exceptions, were published during the 1987 calendar year...read more

Product Description: The Longman Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric offers teachers and researchers an annual classified listing of scholarship on written English and as teaching. This volume cites over 3800 titles that, with few exceptions, were published during the 1984 2nd 1985 calendar years...read more