Writing and the iGeneration:  Composition in the Computer-Mediated Classroom

The third book in the Fountainhead Press X Series for Professional Development.   Writing and the iGeneration: Composition in the Computer-Mediated Classroom provides selections that range from how to use technology to build a community of writers to integrating and shaping electronic locations for effective writing. The essays provided guide both new and experienced teachers in incorporating technology into their teaching of writing, but will do so with the principle that students and their writing come first.

Fountainhead Press is pleased to introduce (E)Merging Identities: Graduate Students in the Writing Center, the second book in the Fountainhead Press X Series for Professional Development.

(E)Merging Identities provides an overview of the challenges and rewards that await graduate student clients, tutors, and administrators in the writing center. The text is intended as a resource not only for graduate students but also for faculty and writing center professionals who work with them. Whether used as a classroom text or a professional development resource, (E)Merging Identities provides an opening for sustained conversations about theorizing the work graduate students do in the center as well as highlights the professional, academic, and personal stakes for graduate students in this environment.

Authors in this collection address such questions as: How do graduate students navigate through the complicated work of being tutors and teachers, often simultaneously? What are the benefits and drawbacks of working in and doing research on writing centers as a graduate student? And what is the nature of the relationship between a graduate tutor and graduate and/or undergraduate clients?

Fountainhead Press is pleased to introduce COMPbiblio, the first book in the Fountainhead Press X Series for Professional Development. This book enables students and instructors to access biographical and scholarly information about leading figures in the field of composition and other fields directly related to the study and teaching of composition.

COMPbiblio traces the evolution of composition by presenting how current leaders in composition came to their careers and continue to reinvent their research and teaching practices as new ideas arrive in composition studies.

The book’s format is designed to serve equally well as a textbook for graduate seminars or as a reference manual for a wider audience. In the “Leaders” section, each chapter is devoted to a specific composition leader and contains a brief biographical narrative and an annotated bibliography of sources relating to the work of that individual.

In the “Influences” sections, each chapter is focused on representative works in and around writing theory and practice to start your search.