First-Year Composition: From Theory to Practice

Edited by Deborah Coxwell-Teague and Ronald F. Lunsford Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition Edited by Thomas Rickert and Jennifer Bay Information and Pricing 978-1-60235-518-7 (paperback, $34); 978-1-60235-509-4 (hardcover, $65); 978-1-60235-520-0 (PDF, $19.99). © 2014 by Parlor Press. 421 pages with notes, illustrations, syllabi, bibliography, and index. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. About This Book Responding to a widespread belief that the field of composition studies is less unified than it was in the late twentieth century, editors Deborah Coxwell-Teague and Ronald F. Lunsford ask twelve well-known composition theorists to create detailed syllabi for a first-year composition course and then to explain their theoretical foundations. Each contributor to First-Year Composition: From Theory to Practice, discusses the major goals and objectives for their course, its major assignments, their use of outside texts, the role