Elizabeth Larsen gives us a lesson in surfing the web for museum and arts sites. All major chapters contain ESL teaching tips, designed to alert teachers to possible ESL problems and their solutions. The accompanying teacher's manual, Teaching Composition with the Prentice Hall Guide, has two new essays on teaching ESL students in the native speaker classroom. Finally, the fifth edition contains thirteen new professional and student essays by writers such as Pico Iyer, Susan Douglas, Peter Travers, Wanda Coleman, Michael Maren, Susan Estrich, and Cathleen Cleaver. Of course, The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers continues to showcase student writing, featuring the work of more than forty student writers from several colleges and universities.
Rituals are crucial for all writers but especially so for novice writers.
Effective rituals are simply those behavioral strategies that complement the cognitive and social strategies of the writing process. Illustrating a variety of possible writing rituals are quotations from a dozen professional writers on the nature of writing. These short quotations continue throughout the book, reminding students that writing is not some magical process, but rather a madness that has a method to it, a love that is built from labor, and a learning that is born of reading, thinking, observing, remembering, discussing, and writing. It demonstrates how meaning evolves from a variety of recursive, multidimensional, and hierarchical activities that we call the writing process. Finally, it reassures students that, because individual writing and learning styles differ, they will be encouraged to discover and articulate their own processes from a range of appropriate possibilities.