Teaching Academic Writing [Paperback]

Teaching Academic Writing consists of ten teaching-focused chapters offering solutions to the issues confronting the teacher of academic writing. The contributors give practical advice about how to teach an academic writing class, offer classroom solutions for the novice teacher, and discuss the place of feedback and assessment. The chapters also examine the use of different media in the academic writing classroom, the problem of plagiarism, and background issues affecting students' ability to learn.

Including a breadth of practical advice and focused around the real issues confronting the teacher of academic writing, this will be the essential book for teachers of academic writing in higher education.
Teaching Academic Writing consists of ten teaching-focused chapters offering solutions to the issues confronting the teacher of academic writing. The contributors give practical advice about how to teach an academic writing class, offer classroom solutions for the novice teacher, and discuss the place of feedback and assessment. The chapters also examine the use of different media in the academic writing classroom, the problem of plagiarism, and background issues affecting students' ability to learn.

Including a breadth of practical advice and focused around the real issues confronting the teacher of academic writing, this will be the essential book for teachers of academic writing in higher education.

1. First-Year Composition in the 20th Century U.S. Higher Education: An Historical Overview, A. Abby Knoblauch, (University of New Hampshire, USA and Paul Matsuda, Arizona State University, USA)
2. Disciplines: Academic Writing and the Disciplines,Si?n Etherington (University of Salford, UK)
3. Pedagogy: Teaching Writing Teachers To Teach Writing, Duku Anokye (Arizona State University, USA)
4. Tasks: Assignments and Activities in Teaching Academic Writing, Christine Tardy (DePaul University, USA) and Jennifer Courtney (Rowan University, l#£