Randi Brummett de Leon and Brooke Hughes teach composition at California State University, Bakersfield.
We need this book in the composition market because it offers a
new, refreshing perspective. The authors have a comprehensive
understanding of students, their interests, and their needs, and
they have created an extremely student-friendly book. Current
research in rhetoric/composition tells us that our ultimate goal in
freshman writing should be for our students to be able to evaluate
their own communication skills as they move through their
composition courses, and this is exactly what Randi Brummett de
Leon and Brooke Hughes have accomplished at the end of each of
their chapters in ‘Assessing Your Knowledge.’ This is a brilliant
feature of the book that puts the students in charge of their own
learning. Congratulations on an excellent new contribution to the
field!" —Kim Flachmann, California State University,
Bakersfield
"This book covers a wide range of topics, with plentiful examples
drawn mostly from student writing or from a variety of media
sources. It provides valuable guides for developing a rhetorical
understanding of media sources and critical media literacy skills;
this section of the book is the most detailed and engaging, and the
book will be most useful in classes in which most of the work
revolves around such non-traditionally-academic sources. The
explicit and detailed way in which it links reading and writing is
also a welcome feature, as is the discussion of sentence-level
issues that concludes the volume." —Michael Kaler, University of
Toronto Mississauga
"Write Here aims to boost student writers’ confidence by connecting
the strategies used to read and analyze social media and popular
culture with the reading, analysis, and writing processes required
by first-year composition courses. De Leon and Hughes connect the
elements of academic writing commonly taught in those
courses¾reading and writing as processes, argumentative appeals and
fallacies, essay structures, documentation, sentence grammar¾to the
competencies students already possess. I particularly appreciate
the clear and accessible approach to sentence grammar, which
usefully explains both basic patterns and common errors." —Noel
Currie, Langara College
"In our fast-paced, social-media-soaked society, students read more
words each day than prior generations, which makes the skills they
learn in courses—rhetorical analysis, synthesis, how to evaluate
sources, etc.—more important than ever as they navigate a landscape
in which conspiracy theories thrive alongside peer-reviewed
research articles. This is where Write Here shines. In addition to
providing exceptional academic reading and writing strategies, de
Leon and Hughes have culled relevant readings that are
simultaneously complex and accessible, fresh and enduring—many of
which are poised to become the timeless standards of future
textbooks. Armed with Write Here, students and instructors alike
will be better equipped to read, reflect, and respond in an
ever-changing world." —Crystal Huddleston, Taft College
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