Focus on Writing - by Laurie McMillan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>This first-year composition rhetoric-reader uses a Writing about Writing (WAW) approach and a conversational style to help students engage in threshold concepts and transfer what they know about writing to new situations. Each chapter asks a key question such as "Why Write?" or "What Is the Rhetorical Situation and Why Should I Care about It?" Preliminary answers to the chapter question are provided in accessible prose, and these initial ideas are supplemented with a selection of three or four readings and a list of recommended online texts. </p> <p>Prompts for informal and formal writing projects keep the focus on writing and help students apply writing studies scholarship to their own lives in meaningful ways. </p> <p>A companion website includes recommended WAW resources, assignment supports, and links to additional readings: sites.broadviewpress.com/focusonwriting </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"With <em>Focus on Writing</em>, Laurie McMillan personalizes the anthology-textbook genre: each text includes a motivating note on 'why I included it, ' and each chapter opens with an essay grounding rhetorical principles in both disciplinary conversations and McMillan's own lived experience as a writer, across genres and contexts. Prominent sidebars throughout the book remind us to CONNECT, with prompts to help link across chapters and courses and non-academic experiences, with a goal of improved transfer. Though the named audience is college students, teachers will benefit from McMillan's example: reading the book is like sharing an office with an especially thoughtful and knowledgeable colleague, learning from them how to work with students." -- Benjamin Miller, University of Pittsburgh </p> <p>"Laurie McMillan's <em>Focus on Writing</em> provides a fresh approach to 'writing about writing.' Unlike many texts, it speaks directly to students in a voice that includes them in conversations about why and how we write. The personal, witty style makes key concepts like inquiry, transfer, kairos, and genre both accessible and useful. McMillan's conversation-based model of research and her attention to habits of mind will help students understand the kinds of things that good writers think about and do. And the structure of the book enacts the subtitle's concept of 'What College Students Want to Know, ' providing both a brief introduction to key activities that good writers perform and a selection of accessible readings from the field to which students can respond. The writing prompts, likewise, are designed to spur metacognitive thinking about writing processes and so will help students to transfer the strategies they reflect upon to future writing." -- Dominic DelliCarpini, Naylor Endowed Professor of Writing Studies, York College of Pennsylvania </p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Laurie McMillan</strong> is Associate Professor of English at Pace University. </p>
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