X Series for Professional Development
- New teaching assistants, adjuncts, and instructors teaching writing and/or literature
- Writing Program Administrators interested in the creation of professional development courses or programs
- Writing Center personnel
- Writing Across the Curriculum personnel
- Service Learning personnel
COMPbiblio: Leaders and Influences in Composition Theory and Practice
978-1-59871-070-0
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.
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(E)Merging Identities: Graduate Students in the Writing Center
978-1-59871-184-4
This book provides an overview of the challenges and rewards that await graduate student clients, tutors, and administrators in the writing center.
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Writing and the iGeneration: Composition in the Computer-Mediated Classroom
978-1-59871-301-5
This text provides selections that range from how to use technology to build a community of writers to integrating and shaping electronic locations for effective writing.
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Writing Centers and Disability
978-1-59871-591-0
This book brings together forward-thinking scholars in writing center theory and practice and disability studies for important critical discussions. This book should be required reading for all who care about optimal, equitable, and inclusive learning for everyone—whether disabled or able-for-now.
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Movies, Music, and More: Advancing Popular Culture in the Writing Classroom
978-1-59871-309-1
This book contains the insights of teachers who have used popular culture to inspire student writing, from teachers of traditional writing classes who introduce a few elements of popular culture to those who host entire classes in virtual worlds.
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Teaching Creative Writing to Undergraduates: A Practical Guide and Sourcebook
978-1-59871-253-7
This text is written for the graduate student or novice instructor who is about to teach his or her first creative writing class.
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Web 2.0: Applications for Composition Classrooms
978-1-59871-312-1
This book asks college writing instructors to speak about how and why they teach writing while using technologies and, in particular, Web 2.0 applications. Of their writing classes, specifically, it asks, “Is there an app for that?”
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Adding to the Conversation on Service-Learning in Composition: Taking a Closer Look
978-1-59871-310-7
This book is a welcomed result to a need for more discussion in the area of Service Learning.
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Peer Pressure, Peer Power: Theory and Practice in Peer Review and Response for the Writing Classroom
978-1-59871-590-3
This book delivers original essays that engage tough pedagogical questions from authors who resist easy answers. The included essays examine the nature of peer response in theory and in practice from scholars representing composition-rhetoric, writing center, and WAC/WID across the country.
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Metamorphosis: The Effects of Professional Development on Graduate Students
978-1-59871-311-4
This book is an edited collection of essays that examines the effects of professional development activities on graduate students from the graduate student perspective.
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What We Wish We'd Known: Negotiating Graduate School
978-1-59871-526-2
This book contains 15 chapters written by graduate students who explore the ways they have made sense of, and made choices about, graduate school challenges, including choosing a committee, teaching as a graduate student, and writing a dissertation.
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Diversity in the Composition Classroom
978-1-59871-252-0
This collection of essays is designed to enhance understanding of the challenges students face relative to the work we are asking them to do. The authors seek ways to honor students’ experiences and insights while introducing them to new ideas and ways of thinking.