Description:
This new edition offers a thoroughly updated approach for incorporating archival and primary materials into the writing process. It is an engaging textbook developed for undergraduate students in the beginning stages of their academic writing careers and prepares its readers for a lifetime of research and writing.
Review Quotes:
Praise for the 1st Edition
"Primary Research and Writing transformed the way I teach first year composition. When students become researchers, they become passionate about research and writing. My students saw research, writing, and critical analysis as relevant and even necessary activities. As a result, my classroom became a community of scholars immersed in examining the world around them, and I haven't looked back since."
Candace Nadon, Fort Lewis College, USA
"Teaching writing via communities and primary research truly enlivens and enriches the first-year classroom. Primary Research and Writing: People, Places, and Spaces is an incredibly useful text for exploring how to gather and write up firsthand data in the twenty-first century. Filled with wide-ranging contemporary examples, the text connects research and writing methods with various local and global communities in a manner that students find helpful and accessible."
Matthew Sansbury, Georgia State University, USA
"Revitalize and recharge your composition or expository writing or history or service-learning class! This approach energized my students, who took off running to investigate a community of their choice using primary sources in the archives and in the world around them. I had the joy of seeing them take ownership of their writing."
Amanda C. Gable, Georgia State University, USA