Download or read book Practicing Writing written by Thomas M. Masters and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2004-10-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practicing Writing examines a pivotal era in the history of the most ubiquitous-and possibly most problematic-course in North American colleges and universities: the requireAd first-year writing course generally known as "freshman English." Thomas Masters's focus is the mid-twentieth century, beginning with the returning waves of World War II veterans attending college on the GI Bill. He then traces the education reforms that took place in the late 1950s after the launch of Sputnik and the establishment of composition as a separate discipline in 1963. This study draws upon archives at three midwestern schools that reflect a range of higher education options: Wheaton, a small, sectarian liberal arts college; Northwestern, a large private university; and Illinois, a large public university.Practicing Writing gives voice to those whose work is often taken for granted or forgotten in other studies of the subject: freshman English students and their instructors. Masters examines students' papers, professors' letters, and course descriptions, and draws upon interviews conducted with teachers to present the practitioners' points of view.Unlike other studies of the subject, which have tended to focus more on the philosophy, theory, and ideology of teaching composition and rhetoric, Masters reveals freshman English to be a practice-based phenomenon with a durable ideological apparatus. By reexamining texts that had previously been considered insignificant, he reveals the substance of first-year composition courses and the reasons for their durability.
Download or read book College Freshman English for Maritime Students written by and published by Rex Bookstore, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Freshman English written by Frances Campbell Berkeley Young and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Freshman English and Theme correcting in Harvard College written by Charles Townsend Copeland and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Guide for Freshman College English with Freshman Themes written by Carrie Ellen Stanley and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Case Study of Seven Taiwanese English as a Foreign Language Freshman Non English Majors Perceptions about Learning Five Communication Strategies written by Grace Hui Chin Lin and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to identify what were Taiwanese University English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' perceptions about learning communication strategies. This study collected qualitative data about students' beliefs and attitudes as they learned communication strategies. The research question guiding the study was: What are Taiwanese University EFL learners' perceptions about learning communication strategies? Twenty-four university students were trained for 10 weeks to use strategies in Faerch and Kasper's (1983a) taxonomy, and seven volunteers were interviewed. None of the students majored in English but were enrolled in a required Basic English course in a Freshman English Non-Majors' (FENM) program in Agriculture College at Tunghai University. In the middle and at the end of the training period, participants were interviewed and videotaped for 90 minutes. The results were displayed clearly with details in Chapter four. In Chapter five, significant themes associated with topic avoidance (1.), message abandonment (2.), meaning replacement (3.), interlanguage (4.), and cooperation (5.) strategies, mentioned by seven participants were revealed through the constant method of analysis. They were comprehension, politeness, intentionality, native language, face-saving (losing-face), interlanguage system, time-saving, and keywords. Chapter six includes a summary of this study, further discussions for the important issues mentioned by previous studies of this field and by participants of this research, and at the end, several important issues recommended as topics for further studies. The issues suggested to readers for future researches were variables in the learners and trainers, students' acceptance level of non-native like language, training pedagogies, the relationship between English proficiency and using strategy, the correlation between gender and strategy, communication strategy in a working situation, and examples through the interlanguage strategy.
Download or read book Requirements for Admission to the Freshman English Course English I written by University of Wisconsin. Department of English and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to Freshman Composition written by Ann C. Spurlock and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The materials included in this guide were written, compiled, and edited to enrich Composition I and II courses at Mississippi State University. Guide to freshman composition, first published in 2006, was designed as a supplemental text that provides instructors and students easy access to policies and procedures of the English Department and Mitchell Memorial Library. More importantly, it features instructional materials, exercises, and sample student essays that enhance the learning process and serve as models for freshman writing"--page ix.
Download or read book Manual for Freshman English written by C. P. Fountain and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reading and Writing in Freshman English written by Michael Wilson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freshman Composition instructors will not find a less expensive basic textbook for their cash-strapped students. This collection of short stories and poetry also includes a section on writing personal narratives, brainstorming activities, suggestions for effective peer editing, a research paper checklist, and a works cited exercise. Authors included: Edgar Allen Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Jack London, Katherine Mansfield, Anton Checkhov, Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, A. E. Housman, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, W. B. Yeats, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Robert Frost.
Download or read book Reading and Writing in Freshman English written by Michael Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-26 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title has been replaced by the two-volume set (one for each semester of freshman English) Reading and Writing in Freshman English I (ISBN-13: 978-0692296318) and Reading and Writing in Freshman English II (ISBN-13: 978-0692296844).
Download or read book A Student s Guide to Freshman English written by Georgia Institute of Technology. Committee on Freshman English and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Freshman English at Seventy three Colleges and Universities and the Implications for High Schools written by Michigan Council of Teachers of English. Newsletter and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reading and Writing in Freshman English written by Michael Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freshman composition instructors will not find a more affordable basic textbook for their cash-strapped students. This book focuses on total literacy, with emphasis given to reading comprehension of increasingly challenging texts. Includes short stories by Poe, de Maupassant, London, Mansfield, Chekhov, Bierce, Chopin, Joyce, Gibran, Cather, and Vonnegut, poetry by Dickinson, Housman, Sassoon, Owen, Yeats, St. Vincent Millay, Frost, Barrett Browning, Byron, Poe, Whitman, and Shakespeare, and instruction on writing personal narratives, brainstorming activities, what is not appropriate in undergraduate papers, suggestions for effective peer editing, logical fallacies, samples of MLA citations, a works cited exercise, a sample MLA-style paper, as well as rubrics and checklists for various types of writing.
Download or read book Freshman English and Theme Correcting written by C. T. Copeland and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Freshman English and Theme-Correcting: In Harvard College In English A, the Freshman course in English Composition at Harvard College, there were last year six hundred and twenty or thirty students, and eleven instructors. There are two possible reasons, then, why a review of this course in its aims, methods, and attainments, might not be of any service to students or teachers of English Composition: first, the scale on which the course is constructed is probably much larger than would be necessary in most other cases; and second, the independence of the instructors, each of whom is apparently allowed to teach according to his own judgment, would not seem to promise a generally available method. In point of fact, however, these two possibilities are slight. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Reading and Writing in Freshman English I written by Michael Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-22 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freshman composition instructors will not find a more affordable basic textbook for their cash-strapped students. This book and its partner edition, Reading and Writing in Freshman English II, focus on total literacy, with emphasis given to reading comprehension of increasingly challenging texts. Includes short stories by Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Jack London, Katherine Mansfield, Chekhov, Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, Gertrude Stein, Keith Hale, and Willa Cather; poetry by Dickinson, Housman, Sassoon, Owen, Yeats, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Frost; and sections on writing personal narratives, brainstorming activities, what is not appropriate in undergraduate papers, suggestions for effective peer editing, logical fallacies, samples of MLA citations, a works cited exercise, a sample MLA-style paper, and fourteen rubrics and checklists. This book is also available in a single-volume edition with material for both semesters of freshman composition. .......... Watersgreen House is an independent international book publisher with editorial staff in the UK and USA. One of our aims at Watersgreen House is to showcase same-sex affection in works by important gay and bisexual authors in ways which were not possible at the time the books were originally published. We also publish nonfiction, including textbooks, as well as contemporary fiction that is literary, unusual, and provocative. watersgreen.wix.com/watersgreenhouse
Download or read book Surviving Freshman English written by Thomas J. Burns and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise guide to college level writing with detailed instructions on writing, description, narration, comparison and contrast, argumentative essays, research papers, essays and various types of analysis. Additional topics include grammar, punctuation, sentence development, paragraph development, research and MLA documentation.
