Including Students in Academic Conversations: Principles and Strategies for Teaching Theme-Based Writing Courses Across the Disciplines

by Deborah F. Rossen-Knill, Tatyana Bakhmetyeva

This text responds to the new writing instructor's need to understand the complexity of classroom teaching before entering the classroom. Designed to complement studies in composition, this book brings the intructor-to-be into the classrooms of experienced writing instructors from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. These experienced instructors' successes, half-successes, failures, and reflections on their classroom teaching help to make visible the process of creating and implementing classroom activities.

258 pages, Paperback

Published March 18, 2011