Like its predecessors in Charles Bazerman's series on Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition, this reference guide provides a comprehensive review of the literature on all the issues, responsibilities, and opportunities that writing program administrators need to understand, manage, and enact, including budgets, personnel, curriculum, assessment, teacher training and supervision, and more.
Framed by historic developments—from the Open Admissions movement of the 1960s and 1970s to the attacks on remediation that intensified in the 1990s and beyond, Basic Writing traces the arc of these large social and cultural forces as they have shaped and reshaped the field. George Otte and Rebecca Williams Mlynarczyk balance fidelity to the past with present relevance, local concerns with (presumptively) global knowledge, personal judgment with (apparent) objectivity.
Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum, Third Edition
Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum, presented here in its third edition, provides a comprehensive, accessible discussion of teaching writing across the curriculum. Written by one of the leaders in the field of writing across the curriculum (WAC), it offers a brief introduction to WAC and then discusses how writing can be used to help students learn and communicate.
Master Writing for the SAT: What You Need for Test Success
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Master Writing for the SAT: What You Need for Test Success
The Master Writing for the SAT book will help you get ready for the SAT. You'll get an overview of the writing portion of the exam, subject reviews of key writing topics, and test-taking tips and strategies. You'll also have the chance to practice your skills and diagnose your strengths and weaknesses by taking four grammar practice exercises and writing seven practice essays. Features: Find detailed answer explanations for every question. Review key subjects and test-taking strategies. Use what you learn to target your study time.
501 Grammar and Writing Questions helps students build writing skills and master the rules of grammar and writing to communicate ideas clearly and effectively. This book teaches through questions about the mechanics of capitalization and punctuation, grammar, sentence structure, paragraph development, and essay questions. Utilizing a mix of multiple choice and essay questions, just like what students see on many placement and state assessment tests, this book is a helpful aid for preparing for tests of many kinds.
