books by Ann Watters (community resources arguments)

books by Ann Watters

books:

Coming From Home: Readings for Writers
Marjorie Ford, Jon Ford, ...

Mcgraw-Hill College, 1993

COMING FROM HOME is an innovative reader arranged around the theme of families and the importance of community. Containing 71 selections--essays (including student essays), poems, stories, and memoirs--it provides a variety of ethnic, cultural, economic, sociological, psychological, and literary perspectives. Journal writing and intertextual questions (asking students to work with common threads within a number of works) characterize the ...

Writing the Community: Concepts and Models for Service Learning in Composition (Service Learning in the ...

1 review

Stylus Publishing, 1997

Not for pleasure reading, but insightful and useful
This compilation of essays on service learning and composition offers multiple critical perspectives on why experience is an essential component of teaching composition to college students. With justifications that include making connections between writing and the real world and helping students gain insight into local community issues, followed by questions and inquiry regarding certain ...

Global Exchange: Reading and Writing in a World Context
Ann Watters

Prentice Hall, 2004

Creating America: Reading and Writing Arguments (4th Edition)

5 reviews
Joyce P. Moser, Ann Watters

Prentice Hall, 2004

Great anthology!
I loved this anthology,partly because of the very useful introductory materials on arugment and partly because of the range of readings.The first four chapters of the book work as a good intro to writing essays, conducting research, and understanding arugment, and the rest of the book not only includes a great variety of readings, but also offers a number of visuals and student papers, both of ...

A Guide For Change: Resources for Implementing Community Service Writing

2 reviews
Ann Watters, Marjorie Ford

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 1994

Guide for Change: Strategy for success is easy to see!
In addition to co-authoring the immensely successful "Writing for Change," Ann Watters has pulled through again with her latest effort, "A Guide for Change." This powerfully-written reference has but one purpose: to ensure that today's crop of young idealists has the resources it needs not just to argue about contemporary conditions, but to effect changes in the very infrastructure of our ...

Writing for Change: A Community Reader

1 review
Ann Watters, Marjorie Ford

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 1994

Excellent College reader exceeds expectations
Following up on her magnificent first book, Ann Watters truly pulls through here. Her editing skills are unparalleled in the academic communities around the world. This is a fine college reader that was enjoyable from the start. Writing for Change does not disappoint