Education
Earning My Degree
David Pierpont Gardner was president of one of the world's most distinguished centers of higher learning - the nine-campus University of California - from 1983 to 1992.
The Gold and the Blue. Volume 1, Academic Triumphs
One of the last century's most influential figures in higher education, Clark Kerr was a leading visionary, architect, leader, and fighter for the University of California.
Scandals and Scoundrels
Ron Robin takes an intriguing look at the shifting nature of academic and public discourse in this incisive consideration of recent academic scandals--including charges of plagiarism against Stephen Ambrose, Derek Freeman's attempt to debunk Margaret Mead's research, Michael Bell
Coming to Terms
n a provocative book-length essay, Patricia Lynne argues that most programmatic assessment of student writing in U.S. public and higher education is conceived in the terms of mid-20th century positivism.
Genre Across the Curriculum
Genre across the Curriculum will function as a 'good' textbook, one not for the student, but for the teacher, and one with an eye on the context of writing.
Innovative Approaches to Teaching Technical Communication
Innovative Approaches to Teaching Technical Communication offers a variety of activities, projects, and approaches to energize pedagogy in technical communication and to provide a constructive critique of current practice.
On Location
Classroom-based writing tutoring is a distinct form of writing support, a hybrid instructional method that engages multiple voices and texts within the college classroom. Tutors work 'on location' in the thick of writing instruction and writing activity.
Outcomes Book
The WPA Outcomes Statement is important because it represents a working consensus among composition scholars about what college students should learn and do in a composition program.
Process This
Tracing the rich tradition of AIDS legends in relation to current scholarship on belief, Diane Goldstein shows how such stories not only articulate widespread perceptions of risk, health care, and health policy, they also influence official and scientific approaches to the diseas
ReInventing the University
Christopher Schroeder spends almost no time disputing David Bartholomae's famous essay, but throughout ReInventing the University, he elaborates an approach to teaching composition that is at odds with the tradition that essay has come to represent.