Nuts and Bolts: A Practical Guide to Teaching College CompositionThomas Newkirk 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:
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. |
Contents
Locating Freshman English | 1 |
Charting a Course in FirstYear English | 17 |
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