Bad Ideas about Writing

4: First-Year Composition Prepares Students for Academic Writing, by Tyler Branson


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Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "First-Year Composition Prepares Students for Academic Writing" by Tyler Branson (@TylerBranson), a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe).

Chapter keywords: citizenship, current traditionalism, freshman composition, process theory, writing studies

Tyler S. Branson is an assistant professor of English and associate director of composition at the University of Toledo. He teaches lower- and upper-division writing and rhetoric courses, including first-year writing, writing for public discourse, and business writing. His research focuses primarily on the practice of rhetoric and writing in public contexts. He also has related interests in civic engagement, histories of rhetoric and composition, and writing pedagogy. He is currently working on a book project focusing on the role of what he calls problematic partnerships in the field of writing studies. He occasionally blogs at http://tylersbranson.wordpress.com and tweets @tylerbranson. (2017 bio)

The theme music is "Parade" by nctrnm, and both the book and podcast are licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

The full book was published by the West Virginia University Libraries and Digital Publishing Institute; find it online for free at https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas.

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