The St. Martin's Guide to Teaching Writing

Book excerpt: This guide to teaching writing and to major theoretical issues—including current central concerns of rhetoric and composition—contains a brief anthology of scholarly essays and coverage of constructing successful assignments using visual, oral, and electronic texts; teaching multilingual writers; and using technology in the writing classroom. This new edition includes additional practical advice for dealing with classroom issues and helpful guidance for sequencing assignments, teaching revision, using online peer review, and working toward student transference of knowledge and skills.