Ponders whether multimedia composition can help first-year composition students learn how authors sort memories to make narrations powerful. Describes students' experiences in a composition course when they were asked to digitize sound and graphics to add meaning to written texts--to make their narrations more powerful and concrete. Suggests an…

To help committed student writers make the transition from school-sponsored to self-sponsored forms of discourse, an advanced expository writing course combines student-chosen writing assignments with a pedagogical structure that promotes a sensitive and critical response to prose. The class is organized into writing groups containing four or five…

This book will improve the quality of instruction that college students need. It makes numerous suggestions that must be tended to when teachers instruct students. For example, the authors speculate about ways teachers can present what may at times seem to be a mountain of information without burying students under it; why teachers must…