Material Type
Textbook
Description
Writing in College is designed for students who have largely mastered high-school level conventions of formal academic writing and are now moving beyond the five-paragraph essay to more advanced engagement with text. It is well suited to composition courses or first-year seminars and valuable as a supplemental or recommended text in other writing-intensive classes. It provides a friendly, down-to-earth introduction to professors’ goals and expectations, demystifying the norms of the academy and how they shape college writing
assignments. Each of the nine chapters can be read separately, and each includes suggested exercises to bring the main messages to life.
Students will find in Writing in College a warm invitation to join the academic community as novice scholars and to approach writing as a meaningful medium of communication. With concise discussions, clear multidisciplinary examples, and empathy for the challenges of student life, Guptill conveys a welcoming tone. In addition, each chapter includes Student Voices: peer-to-peer wisdom from real SUNY Brockport students about their strategies for and experiences with college writing.
While there are many affordable writing guides available, most focus only on sentence-level issues or, conversely, a broad introduction to making the transition. Writing In College, in contrast, provides both a coherent frame for approaching writing assignments and indispensable advice for effective organization and expression.
Media Format
eBook
Accessibility
Textual
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
Sponsoring Institution / Retrieved from Organization
Milne Open Textbooks
OER Category
UMSL OER Adopted
Publication Date
1-19-2016
ISBN
978-1-942341-21-5
Publisher
Open SUNY Textbooks
This OER at UMSL
Prof. Leslie Scheuler - HONORS 3100
Recommended Citation
Guptill, Amy; Button, Aly; Farrell, Peter; Leonard, Kaethe; and Pizarro, Timothée, "Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence" (2016). Open Educational Resources Collection. 33.
Available at:
https://irl.umsl.edu/oer/33