Writing Your Way Through College: A Student's Guide / Edition 1

by Sheryl Fontaine, Cherryl Smith

Overview

Writing academic essays in college often seems mysterious to students who do not yet understand the process of developing an idea into a finished piece of reasoned prose. Writing Your Way Through College demystifies that process and enables teachers to help students "invent the university" as they reinvent themselves as proficient writers and rhetorical problem solvers.
Writing Your Way Through College offers instructors a set of careful lessons that draw on current disciplinary knowledge in composition and rhetoric. Sheryl Fontaine and Cherryl Smith provide a classroom-centered text that guides students through progressively more complex, evidence-based writing.
Writing Your Way Through College offers students and teachers:
practical lessons on writing and learning

• a set of assignments that build incrementally
• a support system for new instructors
• accessible information about college writing
• a flexible approach to the classroom.

In a concise, readable format, Writing Your Way Through College offers insights into how individuals negotiate language communities so that students can better master the conventions and rhetorical characteristics of academic writing. A creative and effective template for the teaching of writing, Writing Your Way Through College belongs on every shelf and in every classroom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780867095913
Publisher:	Heinemann
Publication date:	01/11/2008
Edition description:	Student Guide
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.39(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Sheryl I. Fontaine is the coauthor or coeditor of two Boynton/Cook titles: Writing Your Way Through College (2008) and Foregrounding Ethical Awareness in the Composition Classroom (1998). She is Professor of English at California State University , Fullerton, has directed its Writing Center and now teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in writing. Her teaching and research center on the discipline of composition, writing program administration, composing pedagogy, responding to writing, and the relationship between reading and writing. Sheryl has published several articles and books relating to the profession and the teaching of composition, including Writing Ourselves into the Story: Unheard Voices from Composition Studies (1993).

Cherryl Smith is coauthor of Writing Your Way Through College (2008). She is Professor of English at California State University, Sacramento and director of the Writing Center. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in composition, rhetoric, and creative writing. She taught previously at Harvard University and California State University, Northridge, and coordinated programs of the South Coast Writing Project. Cherryl has published articles about writing program administration and teaching writing and coauthored Shoptalk for College Writers with Sheryl Fontaine. Her recent book of poetry is After Being Somewhere Else.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     ix
Chapters in Order of Writing Assignments     xi
Finding Your Place in College Writing     1
Reading and Writing for Essays 1 and 2
Getting Ready to Write     1
Situating Ourselves in Language     10
The Language of Wider Communication     20
Reading and Writing for Essays 3 and 4
A Map of College Writing     27
Your Own Experience as a Writer     35
Reading and Writing for Essays 5 and 6
Navigating the Conventions of Speaking and Writing     44
Interacting with Written Texts     56
Writing College Essays     69
Essay 1: Learning About Language by Observing and Listening     69
Essay 2: Learning About a Subject of Your Choice by Observing and Listening     77
Essay 3: Learning About Writing from Recollections and Memories     83
Essay 4: Learning About a Subject of Your Choice from Recollections and Memories     88
Essay 5: Learning About Academic Disciplines from Written Texts     93
Essay 6: Using Academic Texts to Inform Your Thinking     99
Resources For Writing     105
Learning from Students' Drafts     105
Guidelines for Reading and Responding to Writers' Drafts     133
Guidelines for Editing FinalRevisions     145
Works Cited     157