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. . . an informative and practical guide. Even the seasoned professional will be able to find some teaching tidbits among the wide range of topics and curriculum ideas.
—Harvard Educational Review

In Nuts & Bolts, editor Thomas Newkirk details the evolution of the University of New Hampshire's writing program, drawing heavily from the oral culture -- or "lore" -- of the program. Then seven experienced practitioners contribute chapters dealing with the issues that beginning writing teachers often struggle with:

• How can I sequence a writing course?
• How can in-class writing exercises develop writing
• What is the place of reading in a writing course?
• What is my role in writing conferences?
• How can I help students self-evaluate?
• How do I teach editing?
• How should I grade?

Nuts & Bolts deals with these questions in a lucid, jargon-free, and specific way. While filled with examples of student work and classroom exercises, it is more than a sampler of things that "work." Each contributor is careful to show how classroom work comes out of careful thinking about course objectives; readers are invited to eavesdrop on this decision making process.

An unabashedly practical book, Nuts & Bolts will be the single most useful book a college writing teacher could own.

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Contents

Contents:
Introduction: Locating Freshman English, Thomas Newkirk 1. Charting a Course in First-Year English, Patricia A. Sullivan 2. Conferences and Workshops: Conversations on Writing in Process, Rebecca Rule 3. Exercises for Discovery, Experiment, Skills, and Play, Sue Wheeler 4. Using Reading in the Writing Classroom, Donna Qualley 5. Teaching the Research Paper, Bruce Ballenger 6. Editing: The Last Step in the Process, Jane Harrigan 7. Evaluation as Acts of Reading, Response, and Reflection, Elizabeth Chiseri Strater