Conflicts and Crises in the Composition Classroom - ---And What Instructors Can Do about Them

This book takes you inside 17 real-life composition classrooms and explores how you can defuse potentially explosive situations and reinvigorate your teaching.

About the author

Dawn Skorczewski is Assistant Professor of Writing, Literature, and Publishing, and Director of Composition at Emerson College. She has recently completed Teaching Writing One Moment at a Time, a book that explores intersections between infant research, psychoanalytic theory, and the teaching of writing, and has published articles on composition and on representations of father-daughter incest in poetry.
Matthew Parfitt is Associate Professor in the Division of Humanities and Rhetoric at the College of General Studies, Boston University. He has been teaching composition for over ten years, and has published work on composition, interpretation theory, and the literature of the First World War. He is coeditor of Cultural Conversations: The Presence of the Past.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Parfitt, Dawn Skorczeski, Skorczewski, Dawn Skorczewski
• Assisted by: Matthew Parfitt (Editor)
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.03.2003
• EAN: 9780867095418
• ISBN: 978-0-86709-541-8
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 248 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 213 g
• Series: Crosscurrents
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system