Teaching Composition at the Two-Year College - (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

This sequel to Teaching Composition at the Two-Year College (2016) provides busy two-year college literacy instructors with key up-to-date professional readings focusing on important issues that have emerged since the first book was published.

Most of the sixty-three selections were previously published in scholarly journals and books, including Teaching English in the Two-Year College and College English. Additional essays by current and recently graduated two-year college students give on-the-ground insight, while introductions to the individual sections by the volume editors and others provide valuable context for the variety of articles.

Featured sections in this collection include

• Practical Advice from Students to Two-Year College Teachers
• Working Conditions for Teachers Are Learning Conditions for Students
• Hiring Diverse Faculty and Staff
• Students' Right to Their Own Language
• Grading and Assessment
• Developmental Education Reform
• Working with Diverse Students

About the Author

Christie Toth is an associate professor in the University of Utah's Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies. She has taught writing at several open-admissions institutions, including Portland Community College, Clackamas Community College, Diné College, and Salt Lake Community College (SLCC). She currently serves as her department's Coordinator of Transfer Initiatives and Community College Partnerships, a role that emerged from her decade-long collaboration with colleagues at SLCC to support transfer students and graduate students aspiring to teach at access-oriented institutions. She regularly coauthors and coedits scholarship with two-year college faculty and students. That work has included articles in Teaching English in the Two-Year College, College Composition and Communication, College English, Journal of Writing Assessment, New Directions for Community Colleges, and ADE Bulletin, as well as the books Teaching Composition at the Two-Year College (2016), Writing Placement in Two-Year Colleges: The Pursuit of Equity in Postsecondary Education (2022), and Transfer in an Urban Writing Ecology: Reimagining Community College-University Relations in Composition Studies (2023).