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Writing Your Way Through College
A Student's Guide

Sheryl I. Fontaine, California State University, Fullerton, Cherryl Smith, California State University, Sacramento

ISBN 978-0-86709-591-3 / 0-86709-591-1 / 2008 / 176pp / Paperback
Imprint: Boynton/Cook
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Grade Level: College

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Download the Instructor's Guide for Writing Your Way Through College today and discover a convenient roadmap to helping students succeed with academic writing.
 
 
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.
 
 
Table of Contents
     
    I. Finding Your Place in College Writing
    Reading and Writing for Essays 1 and 2
    1. Getting Ready to Write
    2. Situating Ourselves in Language
    3. The Language of Wider Communication
    Reading and Writing for Essays 3 and 4
    4. A Map of College Writing
    5. Your Own Experience as a Writer
    Reading and Writing for Essays 5 and 6
    6. Navigating the Conventions of Speaking and Writing
    7. Interacting with Written Texts
    II. Writing College Essays
    8. Essay 1: Learning About Language by Observing and Listening
    9. Essay 2: Learning About a Subject of Your Choice by Observing and Listening
    10. Essay 3: Learning About Writing from Recollections and Memories
    11. Essay 4: Learning About a Subject of Your Choice from Recollections and Memories
    12. Essay 5: Learning About Academic Disciplines from Written Texts
    13. Essay 6: Using Academic Texts to Inform Your Thinking
    III. Resources For Writing
    14. Learning from Students’ Drafts
    15. Guidelines for Reading and Responding to Writers’ Drafts
    16. Guidelines for Editing Final Revisions
     
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