Nuts & Bolts: A Practical Guide to Teaching College Composition / Edition 1

by Thomas Newkirk

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780867093216
Publisher:	Heinemann
Publication date:	04/05/1993
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.49(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Locating Freshman English, Thomas Newkirk
Charting a Course in First-Year English, Patricia A. Sullivan
Conferences and Workshops: Conversations on Writing in Process, Rebecca Rule
Exercises for Discovery, Experiment, Skills, and Play, Sue Wheeler
Using Reading in the Writing Classroom, Donna Qualley
Teaching the Research Paper, Bruce Ballenger
Editing: The Last Step in the Process, Jane Harrigan
Evaluation as Acts of Reading, Response, and Reflection, Elizabeth Chiseri Strater

Editorial Reviews

. . . an informative and practical guide. Even the seasoned professional will be able to find some teaching tidbits among the wide range of topics and curriculum ideas.”–Harvard Educational Review

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