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Here's one reader that won't make it to the bookstore buyback. Why? Because it's not like any other college reader."Good Writers Read for Pleasure." —Sondra Perl and Charles Schuster Sondra Perl and Charles Schuster know the importance of inspiring your writers to read. That’s what inspired them to develop a new kind of college reader—one that tells never-before-seen stories and serves them up in surprising ways. These twelve provocative essays by some of America’s most distinguished teachers of writing were written to grab your students’ interest. The essays will keep them turning pages. We think they’ll want to read them and re-read them, talk about them, think about them, and learn to do what they do best: engage an audience through a unique blend of form, content, style, verve, and voice. Sondra and Charles have also developed an online instructor's manual that gives teachers insight into the composing process each of the contributors went through as they wrote their essay. Writers discuss their choice of subject; their organization, phrasing, and genre; their purpose in writing and whether they achieved their goal; and what challenges they faced and how they resolved them. Bring the pleasure of reading good writing to your students. These stories await you. Enter a comic Twilight Zone of childhood memories— Read about a middle-aged man’s adolescent adventure— Take a leap into flight with a daring English professor on the flying trapeze—"Hep!" by Mary Pinard Discover how letters and language lead to a loving relationship— Ask yourself why a teenage boy tells wildly fantastic stories about his family—The Time of Lies by Janet Eldred Journey through writing a life, one poem at a time— * The City in the Back of the Mind by Mike Rose
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A Note from Charles Schuster
As teachers of writing, we know that scholarship matters. Granted, the pressure of tenure and promotion may spur us to spend long hours in the library stacks, but the primary reason we read and write is because of our passion—for understanding our discipline, for transforming the composition classroom, for improving the thinking and writing of our students. Perhaps there is a touch of the messianic in anyone driven enough to go into composition studies.
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Instructor's Guides
Writing Your Way Through College: A Student's Guide
by Sheryl I. Fontaine and Cherryl Smith
The Subject is Writing
by Wendy Bishop and James Strickland
“Stepping On My Brother’s Head” and Other Secrets Your English Professor Never Told You: A College Reader
by Sondra Pearl and Charles Schuster