Martha Clark Cummings – författare

Inspired to Write uses powerful and provocative readings to inspire young adult students to write personal and academic essays. Inspired to Write contains 45 thematically grouped readings taken from a variety of genres, including personal essays, stories, newspaper and magazine articles, and academic texts. The readings provide students with models of good writing, stimuli for discussion, and inspiration for their own writing. In addition, tips and strategies to help developing writers are woven throughout the text.

Inspired to Write uses powerful and provocative readings to inspire young adult students to write personal and academic essays. The introduction to the Teacher's Manual contains an extensive explanation and description of each type of activity that occurs throughout the Student's Book. In the body of the manual, there are notes on every activity, giving step-by-step instructions and advice. Although answers to many of the exercises will usually vary, in each case the authors have provided typical possible answers.

This book will help post-secondary educators to discover the joys and challenges of implementing theoretically grounded civic engagement projects on their campuses. The essays on civic engagement and public scholarship are written by an interdisciplinary group of community college faculty who have designed and implemented civic engagement projects in their classrooms. The projects they describe stand at the intersection of research, theory and pedagogy. They challenge dominant constructions of civic engagement as students bring their community, culture and history into the classroom. The authors consider the particular complexities and constraints of doing civically engaged teaching and scholarship at the community college level and situate their projects within current theoretical debates about civic engagement, public scholarship, and public higher education.

This book will help post-secondary educators to discover the joys and challenges of implementing theoretically grounded civic engagement projects on their campuses. The essays on civic engagement and public scholarship are written by an interdisciplinary group of community college faculty who have designed and implemented civic engagement projects in their classrooms. The projects they describe stand at the intersection of research, theory and pedagogy. They challenge dominant constructions of civic engagement as students bring their community, culture and history into the classroom. The authors consider the particular complexities and constraints of doing civically engaged teaching and scholarship at the community college level and situate their projects within current theoretical debates about civic engagement, public scholarship, and public higher education.