Teaching College Composition: A Practical Guide for New Instructors

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.

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.