Teaching College Composition: A Practical Guide for New Instructors - Softcover

William Murdick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 087573104X ISBN 13: 9780875731049

Publisher: Jain Pub Co, 2013

Synopsis

Composition directors often have little time to prepare new instructors in methods of teaching writing and to forewarn them of the many daily problems that arise in this challenging work. Teaching College Composition, which can be read in a weekend, goes a long way toward meeting those ends. It provides information on twenty-six topics, from issues of class conduct to methods of critiquing papers to ways of evaluating student work. It also provides approaches to six of the most common writing assignments in first-year composition

Teaching College Composition can also serve as a supplemental text for a teaching of writing course, providing an element of "street knowledge" to the theoretical content.

About this title

About the Author

William Murdick has a Ph. D. in rhetoric and is the author of four writing textbooks, The Portable Business Writer (Houghton Mifflin, 1999), The Portable Technical Writer (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), A Student Guide to College Composition (Jain Publishing Company, 2003, Second Edition 2011), and College Writing: A First Course Writing and Reasoning (Jain Publishing Company, 2006). Dr. Murdick has over thirty years experience teaching composition at the university level.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jain Pub Co
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 087573104X
• ISBN 13: 9780875731049
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164