From answering the question 'Why teach writing?' to offering guidance in managing group work and responding to assignments, this book provides an introduction to the teaching of writing. It includes a chapter on teaching with computers, and covers prewriting techniques, organizing material, paragraphing, sentence structure, words, and revising. "A valuable book for its outstanding coverage of the history of composition, its relation to other fields, and its concrete presentation of classroom pedagogy."--Greg Jacob, Portland State University