English Composition Teacher's Guidebook
How to Survive (and Even Thrive) as an Adjunct or Part-time Instructor
This book packages together all the coursework required for one complete semester's materials in the introductory college composition course. It is concise but comprehensive, portable and accessible, pragmatic yet pedagogically and theoretically sound. And, it is filled with lessons and activitie... Read more
Published: 2019
Pages: 253
eBook: 9781781796412
This book packages together all the coursework required for one complete semester's materials in the introductory college composition course. It is concise but comprehensive, portable and accessible, pragmatic yet pedagogically and theoretically sound. And, it is filled with lessons and activities ready for any instructor to teach tomorrow--or even today, when necessary. This Guidebook is designed to help the part-time college writing instructor survive the first year of teaching an introductory college composition class. Written primarily for adjunct instructors, it could benefit any college professor, teaching assistant, or student taking or preparing to take the first-year writing course. Beyond survival, the Guidebook may even help you, too, to thrive.
Tom Mulder is an adjunct instructor of English at Grand Rapids (Michigan) Community College. He has taught precollege, undergraduate, and post graduate classes for seven colleges.
| Cover | Cover | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | v | ||
| Classroom Illustrations | vi | ||
| Hiking Illustrations | vii | ||
| Tables | viii | ||
| Series Editor’s Preface | ix | ||
| Acknowledgements | x | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| Section 1 Overview | 17 | ||
| Chapter 1 | 18 | ||
| Chapter 2 | 45 | ||
| Chapter 3 | 72 | ||
| Section 2 Overview | 85 | ||
| Chapter 4 | 86 | ||
| Chapter 5 | 104 | ||
| Chapter 6 | 129 | ||
| Chapter 7 | 145 | ||
| Section 3 Overview | 157 | ||
| Appendix 1 | 158 | ||
| Appendix 2 | 179 | ||
| Appendix 3 | 190 | ||
| Appendix 4 | 210 | ||
| References Epigraph Quotations | 230 | ||
| References Motivational Quotations | 231 | ||
| References General | 233 | ||
| Index | 237 |
Tom Mulder
Tom Mulder holds an MA in English Language and Literature from Ohio University and an MEd in Educational Leadership from Tarleton State University. He teaches English at Grand Rapids Community College and Writing at Grand Valley State University, both in Michigan. In 2017, he was awarded the John and Suanne Roueche Excellence Award from the League for Innovation in the Community College and the Excellence in Education 2017 Adjunct Faculty award from Grand Rapids Community College, and was a participant in the college's Great Teachers Seminar. He has been a Fellow and was awarded Teacher Consultant certification at the Lake Michigan Writing Project affiliate of the National Writing Project. Writing the Pandemic is Mulder's second book in the Frameworks for Writing series, which previously published his English Composition Teacher's Guidebook: How to Survive (and Even Thrive) as an Adjunct or Part-time Instructor (Equinox, 2020).