Hello, Writer.

Hello, Writer.

First Edition  ©2022 David Starkey Formats: Digital & Print

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    David Starkey

    David Starkey is Professor of English, Director of the Creative Writing Program, and former Director of the Composition Program at Santa Barbara City College. A frequent collaborator with the late Wendy Bishop, Starkey helped develop a pedagogy focused on the cross-pollination of composition and creative writing. In addition to his work with Bishop, which includes the co-authored Keywords in Creative Writing (2006), he is the editor of two collections of essays on pedagogy, Teaching Writing Creatively (1998) and Genre by Example: Writing What We Teach (2001), and a special issue of Teaching English in the Two-Year College (Dec. 2014). Starkey is a poet (Dance, You Monster, to My Soft Song, 2021; What Just Happened, 2021), a writer of fiction and creative nonfiction (published in American Literary Review, in Cimarron Review, in Living Blue in the Red States,and elsewhere), and a playwright whose plays have been produced across the U.S. Starkey is also a committed practitioner, and his writing on corequisite composition is informed by his participation in SBCC’s Express to Success program, an early-adopter of the ALP/corequisite model. His conference presentations in recent years have emphasized his pedagogy and passion for working with a broad range of student writers. He is currently editing a collection of essays on teaching corequisite composition.

Table of Contents

PART 1 · Becoming a College Reader and Writer
Chapter 1 · Knowing Yourself and Your Community
Chapter 2 · Becoming a College Reader
Chapter 3 · Investigating a Topic: Growth Mindset, Grit, and College Success
Chapter 4 · Prewriting
Chapter 5 · Generating a Thesis and Organizing Your Essay
Chapter 6 · Composing Paragraphs
Chapter 7 · Composing Introductions, Conclusions, and Titles
Chapter 8 · Reviewing and Revising
Chapter 9 · Editing and Proofreading
 
PART 2 · Strategies for Academic Writing
Chapter 10 · Making an Evaluation
Chapter 11 · Arguing a Position
Chapter 12 · Proposing a Solution 
Chapter 13 · Analyzing a Text
Chapter 14 · Reading and Writing Multimodal Texts
 
PART 3 · Writing with Research
Chapter 15 · Establishing Your Research and Writing Goals
Chapter 16 · Locating and Evaluating Sources
Chapter 17 · Drafting and Revising Your Research Essay
Chapter 18 · MLA Style
Chapter 19 · APA Style
 
Appendix: Keeping a Portfolio
Appendix: Writing Timed/In-class Essays

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Hello, Writer combines familiar academic writing and reading topics with a fresh and flexible approach that works in multiple teaching and learning contexts and with a range of college writers. Drawing heavily on principles of learning science and psychology and facilitating engagement through practice and reflection, this purposes-driven rhetoric offers a foundation for corequisite learning models. Reading strategies, noncognitive learning, and plenty of scaffolding pair easily with David Starkey’s easy-going conversational style. Paired with Achieve, an engaging and powerful digital platform, Hello, Writer looks squarely at first-year students and says: You can do it. You belong here. You are a writer.

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David Starkey | First Edition | ©2022 | ISBN:9781319406462

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