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Time to Know Them: A Longitudinal Study of Writing and Learning at the College Level is the first book to follow the experiences of a group of students over their entire academic careers. Through interviews at regular intervals over 6 years, in addition to the collection of the students' papers written for all courses, observations of instructional settings, and analysis of required tests of writing, Marilyn Sternglass composes a portrait of writing...

"A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care? In The Sense of Style, the bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. Rethinking...

Engaging Ideas is a practical nuts-and-bolts guide for teachers from any discipline who want to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities and oncorporate them into their courses in a way that encourages inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate. The book also shows how writing can easily be integrated with such other critical thinking activities as inquiry discussions, simulation games, classroom debates, interactive lectures,...

African-American students who speak Black English Vernacular and who have ties to the vernacular rhetorical traditions face unique problems in accommodating to the language of academe. Most of the attention of compositionists attending to these students has been focused on dialect - specifically on the rather negative phenomenon of "dialect interference," in which Black English Vernacular is said to intrude on the writer's efforts to product Standard...