Acts of Teaching: How to Teach Writing: A Text, A Reader, A Narrative

Inclusive of the scope and authoritative references from earlier editions, this edition additionally embraces the digital world and provides practical suggestions for performing the "act of teaching."

Teachers of writing at all levels will applaud this edition for its new features designed to help teachers to understand and teach to today's new paradigms in writing. New to this edition are two chapters on cognition and technology, respectively; a chapter on early literacy, with student samples; and, for the first time, an online connection that links readers to important articles, visuals, and resources.

Essay writing is explored through discussion of the thesis and its criteria; five organizational patterns for the expository essay; and distinctions among the opinion, persuasive, and argumentative essay. Several new prewriting strategies are also provided: A Sense Notebook, Looking, Contouring, an expanded explanation of Blueprinting, and a discussion of a hierarchical approach to organization.


About the Author

Joyce Armstrong Carroll, EdD, HLD, has taught at every level through graduate school in her sixty-year career. With her husband, Edward Wilson, she codirects Abydos Literacy Learning.

Edward E. Wilson is codirector with his wife, Joyce Armstrong Carroll, of Abydos Literacy Learning. He has taught at the elementary, secondary, and junior college levels.

Nicole Klimow, PhD, works for the Clark County, Nevada, School District as a program administrator for the English Language Learner Division.

Kristy Hill, MLS, is a library media technology specialist, educator, writing trainer, and author.