Exploring College Writing - 9781845537791

This unique text for an undergraduate course helps students understand academic discourse and the purposes and genres of writing across the disciplines. The text combines ethnographic and social constructionist orientations with discipline-based and writing-across-the-curriculum pedagogy, within the framework of genre-centered instruction. Students are encouraged to engage in cycles of extended research and writing projects which ask them to interview their professors, create writing rubrics and academic writing guides, research their prospective majors, and reflect on their own writing. In addition to student essays in a variety of genres, the text presents readings from many disciplines, such as lab reports, book reviews, textbook chapters, and literature reviews. Of special note are in-depth case studies of real students, which include the course syllabus, instructions for assignments, rough and final drafts, professor's responses, and the student's comments on their own writing process. Melzer serves as University Reading and Writing Coordinator at California State University, Sacramento. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)