Erika Lindemann

From answering the question "Why teach writing?" to offering guidance in managing group work and responding to assignments, A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers provides a comprehensive introduction to the teaching of writing. Now in a fourth edition, this remarkably successful book features a new chapter by Daniel Anderson on teaching with computers and adds updated material on invention, intellectual development, and responding to students' writing. Describing in straightforward terms the cross-disciplinary scholarship that underlies composition teaching, it opens with chapters on prewriting techniques, organizing material, paragraphing, sentence structure, words, and revising that show teachers how to lead students through composing. Sections on writing workshops, collaborative learning, and instructional technology reflect current views of writing as a social interaction. Chapters on rhetoric, cognition, and linguistics explain theoretical principles that support classroom practices and make teachers' performances more effective. Treating both the theory and practice of writing, this classic book encourages teachers to adopt the methods that best meet their students' needs and to develop a style of teaching based on informed decisions. It provides an extensive updated bibliography--including useful Web sites as well as important books and articles--and an updated table of important dates in the history of composition. A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers, 4/e, offers both prospective and seasoned writing teachers convenient access to influential scholarship in the field and inspires them to examine what it means to teach well.

Published for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, this 1990 volume lists and annotates 1,849 articles, books, dissertations, and papers. A group of 136 contributing bibliographers prepared the citations and annotations for all entries. The volume includes an index of authors and editors and cross-references entries according to subject matter.Entries appear under five major categories: bibliographies and checklists; theory and research; teacher education, administration, and social roles; curriculum; and testing, measurement, and evaluation.

Published for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, this volume offers teachers and researchers an annual classified listing of scholarship on written English and its teaching at the college level. The 1989 volume lists and annotates 1,857 articles, books, dissertations, and papers. A group of 127 contributing bibliographers prepared the citations and annotations for all entries. The volume includes an index of authors and editors, and cross-references entries according to subject matter.Entries appear under five major categories: bibliographies and checklists; theory and research; teacher education, administration, and social roles; curriculum; and testing, measurement, and evaluation. Although The CCCC Bibliography excludes master's theses, textbooks, computer software, and book reviews, it includes review essays, articles appearing in some 150 journals, scholarly books and essay collections, citations to dissertations abstracted in Dissertation Abstracts International, and selected documents and conference materials available through ERIC.Other bibliographies in the field of composition studies. The CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric is more comprehensive than other bibliographies in the field of composition studies. It also draws upon a large group of experts in the field to aid teachers and researchers in sorting through a vast body of interdisciplinary material, making their work easier and more effective.