WRITER'S CRAFT, TEACHER'S ART: TECHING WHAT WE KNOW Mimi Schwartz

Product Description Writer's Craft, Teacher's Art is a wonderfully readable book that explores the connections between how we write and how we teach writing. It makes the connections readily viewable and validates the power of personal experiences in helping shape our classroom practices. In so doing, it broadens the definition of writer (and rightly so) to include not only regularly published poets, fiction writers, and essayists, but also academic writers across the disciplines, breaking down the artificial divisions between "creative" and "academic" writing. The seventeen essays combine personal experience with the pedagogical beliefs that come out of that experience and offer an abundance of directly useful teaching ideas on a spectrum of issues from writer's block to revision. This rich range of commentary about writing should strike a responsive chord in anyone who has written to be read. Truly a book for all of us who write and teach. From the Author A great book if you are teaching a writing across the curriculum course and want to know how faculty in your discipline use writing to teach content. The idea came out of a writing-across-the curriculum workshop made up of economists, chemists, political scientists, English professors, and nursing faculty. About the Author Mimi Schwartz is a professor emerita in the writing program at Richard Stockton University. She is the award-winning author of When History is Personal, Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father's German Village (Nebraska, 2008), and Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed (Nebraska, 2003) and is the coauthor of Writing True: The Art and Craft of Creative Non-Fiction. Her essays have been widely anthologized, and seven of them have been listed as Notables in the Best American Series.