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Writing to Teach
Susan M. Leist
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Description for Writing to Teach
Hardback. Num Pages: 152 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
Writing to Teach; Writing to Learn in Higher Education is a comprehensive guide for professors seeking to integrate writing-across-the-curriculum principles into their pedagogy. Through the exploration of theory and practice, treating both pre-writing techniques and classical rhetorical patterns as heuristics, Leist outlines the process of incorporating writing into a curriculum. Major concerns of professors in all disciplines about writing intensive courses and the assignment and evaluation of writing are addressed; and practical advice for implementing a new curriculum is offered. This advice includes examples of how to construct writing assignments, details on how to articulate expectations, and methods for evaluating ... Read more
Writing to Teach; Writing to Learn in Higher Education is a comprehensive guide for professors seeking to integrate writing-across-the-curriculum principles into their pedagogy. Through the exploration of theory and practice, treating both pre-writing techniques and classical rhetorical patterns as heuristics, Leist outlines the process of incorporating writing into a curriculum. Major concerns of professors in all disciplines about writing intensive courses and the assignment and evaluation of writing are addressed; and practical advice for implementing a new curriculum is offered. This advice includes examples of how to construct writing assignments, details on how to articulate expectations, and methods for evaluating ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761833222
SKU
V9780761833222
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About Susan M. Leist
Susan M. Leist is a Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She has over 30 years of experience teaching, primarily in higher education settings, and has been recognized with numerous teaching excellence awards. In addition to Writing to Teach; Writing to Learn for Higher Education, she has written numerous journal articles on the subject ... Read more
Reviews for Writing to Teach
What makes this book appealing is its ability to offer practical strategies for using writing as a teaching and writing tool, while anticipating an instructor's concerns or resistance and tempering that resistance. A noted teacher and author, Leist augments her advice with pages of assignments, rubrics, syllabi, checklists, and other teaching aids....Summing Up: RECOMMENDED. Upper-division undergraduates and above, for anyone ... Read more