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What do John Steinbeck and Maya Angelou have in common? They're both among the great authors you'll encounter in VISIONS ACROSS THE AMERICAS: SHORT ESSAYS FOR COMPOSITION. This book presents 72 cross-cultural essays on such diverse themes as: Language and Culture; The Family; Americans and Immigrants; Racism, Sexism, and Ageism; and Technology, Cyberspace, and the Cosmos. An Irony and Humor theme has been added to this newest edition. Each chapter provides students with a blueprint for a specific type of essay, with pre- and post-reading questions and activities that reinforce an understanding of the rhetorical modes addressed in that chapter. ... Read more

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Teaching Essay Strategies provides 4th-12th grade teachers the resources they need to teach the step-by-step skills of how to write eight different essay genre with no teacher prep and with no at-home grading. Teaching Essay Strategies is a comprehensive, standards-based curriculum with a well-defined instructional scope and sequence.Direct InstructionGet a full year of ten-minute interactive writing openers including rhetorical stance, sentence revision (sentence combining and grammatical sentence models), writing style, and transitions. Teacher tips provided, of course. These resources require no teacher prep-just turn on the LCD, Smartboard, or overhead projector and teach.Individualized InstructionUsing sequential essay strategy worksheets, students move from simple three-word paragraphs to complex multi-paragraph essays, learning all of the grammar and proper usage they need to know in the context of authentic writing practice. Following a mastery learning model, a student completes an essay strategy worksheet, mini-conferences with the teacher, and then revises to mastery level before progressing at his or her own individual pace to the next writing strategy worksheet. Most students will complete (and revise to mastery level) eight informational and persuasive multi-paragraph essays by the end of the school year, if the teacher spends 90 minutes per week on this comprehensive writing program.Unlike other writing programs, all additional writing resources, such as remedial worksheets, writing fluency and skill lessons, posters, and editing resources are provided in Teaching Essay Strategies, allowing teachers to truly differentiate instruction within the writing program itself.Timed fluencies for formative on-demand assessments with accompanying reading passages and graphic organizers will help teachers formatively assess student progress and prepare students for standardized essay tests. Find everything you need to teach students how to compose coherent and unified essays in one comprehensive program. Easy to use, Teaching Essay Strategies frees up teachers to teach. Your students will be amazed at their measurable writing progress. 359 pages ... Read more

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As a retired teacher and author of educational materials, I can only wish that I'd had a copy of TEACHING ESSAY STRATEGIES on my bookshelf while I was in the classroom. This book is a must for teachers who want to help their students write unified, coherent essays. ... Read more

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Every student knows, and almost every teacher has forgotten, that the personality of the teacher is a crucial component of every class.Those who fail to recognize their own assumptions are simply in the grip of assumptions they are unwilling to recognize.This book opens new ways to think about the relation of who we are to what we do as teachers.With chapter topics ranging from making assignments, responding to student writing, personality and computers, and even type and library research, this volume gives teachers practical ways to include type theory in their classes. ... Read more

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Condensed and reorganized to increase manageability and flexibility, this successful developmental writing worktext offers a wide variety of writing topics in a new rhetorical organization. Reading selections and writing assignments are designed to emphasize critical thinking and analytical writing. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Sample tests with study notes to prepare one for taking the College Board Acheivement Tests in English composition and literature. ... Read more

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I owe the B+ I got in English 150 to this book. Thank you Steve Good and Bill Jensen.

The Student's Only Survival Guide to Essay Writing
This is a college-level how-to book on the major college survival skill.It gives step-by-step directions to produce a focused, developed, and polished essay which meets the terms of the assignment. The authors arewriting for the college student rather than an instructor; they focus onthe why as much as on the how of each step.It is much like an intensivesession with your composition prof, but at your pace and at yourconvenience. I found it helpful in my own writing and my freshman daughtersaid, "Buy one!" ... Read more

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The vast majority of academic books are written from the scholar's position, even those that primarily concern teaching. Writing/Teaching, on the other hand, is a book about teaching written from the position of the teacher. As the title suggests, Kameen's book is split into two halves--yet both, in different ways and through different discourses, are derived from his work in the classroom, and his own struggle with issues and problems all teachers of writing must face.

The first half is a series of essays originating from a graduate seminar Kameen team-taught with professor and poet Toi Derricotte in 1994. Included are essays Kameen wrote, a selection of pieces written by other members of the group, and a reflective "postscript." These essays combine personal narrative, reflective meditation, and critical inquiry--all used as discourse to depict and examine the process of teaching.

The second half of the book contains essays on Plato's dialogues--primarily Phaedrus and Protagoras--as a means to interrogate the position of teacher through the lens of the most famous of Western pedagogues--Socrates. Here, Socrates is used as a tool to examine and critique both Kameen's own teacherly identity and, in a wider sense, the set of cultural forces that pre-figure the available positions for both "teacher" and "student" in contemporary education.

What unites both halves is the way Kameen approaches each--the "personal" and the "scholarly"--from his position as teacher. The texts presented provide the occasion for a complex and nuanced meditation on the classroom as a legitimate arena for the production of knowledge and research. Sure to be timely and controversial, Writing/Teaching will enter into the debate on whether to reconfigure the relationship between research and teaching currently taking place among teachers of composition, cultural studies, and rhetoric. Compelling reading for teachers or those contemplating a career in the profession. ... Read more