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A Guide to Composition Pedagogies

Reflecting the rich complexity of contemporary college composition pedagogy, A Guide to Composition Pedagogiespresents original essays on the most important approaches to teaching writing. Each essay is written by an experienced teacher/scholar and describes one of the major pedagogies employed today to familiarize newcomers with the topography of Composition Studies. An invaluable tool for graduate students and new teachers, this bibliographic resource provides an exceptional introduction to Composition Studies and the extensive range of available pedagogical approaches.

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Now in its second edition, this guide substantially updates all chapters from the previous edition—on basic, collaborative, community-engaged, critical, expressive, feminist, process, Writing Across the Curriculum, and writing center pedagogies. It also features new chapters—"What Is Composition Pedagogy: An Introduction," "Genre," "Second Language Writing," "Literature and Writing," "New Media," "Online and Hybrid," and "Research Writing"—and also an expanded chapter, "Rhetoric and Argumentation." The essays within now contain an increased focus on issues raised by diversity, each pedagogy's approach to assessment, and technology's effect on composition.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 343 pages

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