Studies in Composition

SiC: Writing, Transfer, Rhetoric, Pedagogy is a course book about first year writing pedagogy for UTRGV TAs during their first semester in the classroom. The first year writing course is the only course that’s required at virtually every institution of higher learning. But, as you’ll learn, it’s also a course that’s called on to do everything under the sun–promote critical thinking, teach correct “grammar,” help students learn how to take essay tests and write papers in their other classes, prepare them for “real world” writing, advocate the use of writing for social critique and change, etc. The course prompts thinking about the best and most appropriate purposes that this course can and should adopt–for students, for the university, for instructors, and, ultimately, for the communities we live in.