Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Tools of the trade: The college writing teacher in a new age / Pauline Burton and Martha C. Pennington -- Writing from personal experience: The personal essay as a tool to teach academic writing / Olivia Archibald -- Snapshots of our literacies / Michelle Cox, Katherine E. Tirabassi -- Empowering basic writers through this i believe essays / Molly Hurley Moran -- Local Heroes, local voices / Pauline Burton -- A funny thing happened to me: introducing oneself through humor / Martha C. Pennington -- Argumentation and writing from sources: The Delayed thesis essay: enhancing rhetorical sensitivity by exploring doubts and refutations / Sara Pace -- Literature-with-exposition: a critical thinking and writing assignment / Gita Dasbender -- Paraphrase integration task: increasing authenticity of practice -- In using academic sources / Zuzana Toma -- Teaching critique writing: a scaffolded approach / Nahla Nola Bacha -- Writing for specific contexts : Academic discourse community mini-ethnography / Dan Melzer -- Using writing across the curriculum exercises to teach critical thinking and writing / Robert Smart -- Suzanne Hudd, Andrew Delohery -- Writing the professional: a model for teaching project management in a writing course / Sky Marsen -- Writing for an authentic audience / Kate Kessler -- Interactive and self assessment of writing : The write path: guiding writers to self-reliance / Lisa Nazarenko, Gillian Schwarz -- Conference-based writing assessment and grading / Robert T. Koch, Jr. -- Working with technology in the writing class : Scavenger hunt: a model for digital composing processes / Sally Chandler, Mark sutton -- Virtual mediation: audio-enhanced feedback for student writing / Carter Winkle -- Academic writing in the foreign language class: wikis and chats at work / Ana Oskoz , Idoia Elola.