First-Year Composition: From Theory to Practice

by Deborah Coxwell-Teague (Editor), Ronald F. Lunsford (Editor)

Overview

First-Year Composition: From Theory to Practice’s combination of theory and practice provides readers an opportunity to hear twelve of the leading theorists in composition studies answer, in their own voices, the key question of what it is they hope to accomplish in a first-year composition course. In addition, these chapters, and the accompanying syllabi, provide rich insights into the classroom practices of these theorists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781602355217
Publisher:	Parlor Press, LLC
Publication date:	05/01/2014
Series:	Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	422
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Deborah Coxwell-Teague currently serves as director of Florida State University’s First-Year Composition Program. In this capacity, she is involved in the training and supervision of close to 150 individuals who teach approximately 350 sections of FYC annually. She has also served as director of FSU’s Reading/Writing Center and has taught composition at both the high school and community college levels. Deborah’s research interests focus on teacher training and composition. Her publications include Finding Our Way: A Writing Teacher’s Sourcebook, coauthored with the late Wendy Bishop, and Multiple Literacies, a composition textbook coauthored with Dan Melzer. Ronald F. Lunsford is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where he teaches courses in composition theory, rhetoric, and linguistics. His administrative posts include Director of Rhetoric and Writing at Clemson University, Head of the Department of English at Missouri State University, Chair of English, Assistant to the Provost, and Director of Graduate Programs in English—all at UNC Charlotte. His publications include the following co-authored works: Twelve Readers Reading: Responding to College Student Writing, Noam Chomsky, Research in Composition and Rhetoric, Linguistic Perspectives on Literature and The Longwood Guide to Writing, now in its fourth edition.