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New Book Gives Insight into Teaching First-Year Composition
A new book co-edited by UNC Charlotte English
Professor Ron Lunsford and published in April 2014 gives
insight into teaching first-year composition at the
university level.
Lunsford co-edited First – Year Composition: From
Theory to Practice with Deborah Coxwell-Teague of
Florida State University. The book, part of the Lauer
Series in Rhetoric and composition, was published by
Parlor Press.
In describing their work, Parlor Press says, “Responding
to a widespread belief that the field of composition
studies is less unified than it was in the late twentieth
century, editors Deborah Coxwell-Teague and Ronald F.
Lunsford ask twelve well-known composition theorists to
create detailed syllabi for a first-year composition course
and then to explain their theoretical foundations.”
Contributing theorists such as Chris Anson, Suresh
Canagarajah, Douglas Hesse, and Kathleen Blake
Yancey wrote essays about the major goals and
objectives of their course. These theorists discuss issues
such as handling assignments, the use of outside text, methods of responding to students, and the nature
of classroom discussion. Lunsford and Teague frame each essay with an introductory chapter listing crucial
moments in composition’s history. The final chapter marks helpful ways these contributors tackle the
challenge of the first-year composition course. One of the essayists, Yancey, is a former UNC Charlotte
faculty member in the English Department and directed the UNC Charlotte site of the National Writing
Project.
Lunsford teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in composition theory, rhetoric, and linguistics, and
authored numerous essays and books on composition. Along with this book, He and Teague also
contributed two essays: “Setting the Table: Composition in the Last Half of the Twentieth Century” and “A
Cornucopia of Composition Theories: What These Teachers Tell Us About Our Discipline.”
Coxwell-Teague is a the director of Florida State University’s First-Year Composition Program, where she
assists in training and supervising up to 150 teachers, and has taught composition at the high school and
community college level.
Words by Bryant Carter, student intern
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
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