Critical Strategies for Academic Thinking and Writing

Rose, Mike; Kiniry, Malcolm

ISBN 10: 031211561X / ISBN 13: 9780312115616

Editore: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1997

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Critical Strategies is a text and reader that gets to the heart of what is essential for success in college. It empowers students with the 6 thinking and writing strategies necessary for college-level work in any discipline and gives them practice with the kinds of material they'll actually use in their other college courses.

Informazioni sull'autore:

MALCOLM KINIRY is director of writing at Rutgers University, Newark, and has written articles on basic writing, writing across the curriculum, and curriculum development, as well as Renaissance studies. He taught in the UCLA Writing Program for seven years and is currently working on a language reader for composition courses.

MIKE ROSE, a professor in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, is one of the most prominent names in composition studies. He has produced important work in remedial reading and writing, writing across the curriculum, the cognition of composing, and the politics of literacy. Among his books are Lives on the Boundary: The Struggles and Achievements of America's Underprepared (1989) andPossible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America (1995). He has received numerous awards for his work in language and literacy, including awards from the National Academy of Education, the National Council of Teachers of English, the Modern Language Association, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Both in 1991 and 1992 he, as coauthor, won the prestigious Richard Braddock Award for the outstanding article published each year in College Composition and Communication. His most recent award is the 1997 Grawemeyer Award in Education for Possible Lives.

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Titolo: Critical Strategies for Academic Thinking ...
Casa editrice: Bedford/St. Martin's
Data di pubblicazione: 1997
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket
Edizione: terza edizione