Stories from First-Year Composition

Stories from First-Year CompositionThe central value of first year composition is often questioned, typically accompanied by characterizations of FYC as a service course. This collection counters those perceptions, sharing with readers a new FYC story, one that demonstrates a new service that the course provides to first year students, a service that accommodates the realities of writingthat it is never just writing and that the writing process entails much more than plugging in the

the 60s and 70s now draw more attention than ever

and sustaining the many disciplines and instructional contexts that comprise higher education

or becoming a tasty morsel for the hideous Eater of the Dead

and social progress by its advocates

When Alice declines Henry’s marriage proposal

usually in the attempt to cultivate a "mythic consciousness" that aims to restore meaning to life and assuage the spiritual malaise of contemporary culture

South Africa and Australia from the post-World War II period to the present

Although each share similar notions concerning the shortcomings of representational thinking

including mobile milking and cooperation to overcome infrastructural constraints enhancing animal welfare and nutrient recycling within a crop-dairy farm

This book describes basic tenets of the Centering Healthcare model

This book says farewell to Zygmunt Bauman by reflecting on the author’s thirty-year collaboration with him

and Bertie must swallow his pride and ask for help