Professional Writing in Context
Subtitle: Lessons From Teaching and Consulting in Worlds of Work
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Published: March 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780805817270
Subjects: Writing & editing guides; Writing skills; Technical English; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Education; Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric; English language; Business English; Rhetoric; Study and teaching
First sentence: About 22 years ago, as a university graduate teaching assistant, I taught my first writing course and, like most of my generation of writing teachers, was armed for the job with little more than a roll book, a coffee cup, a red Bic pen, a degree in literature, and the memory of what had been done unto me several years earlier.