Teaching Writing: Balancing Process and Product

Very good book for my studies

If you are lecturer in teaching writing as I am and want a reader friendly text, this is one which I would recommend. Practical solutions to issues in writing, examples that you can use in your delivery are reasons why this text appealed to me.

I have no complaints with this transaction. Everything went perfectly. The book was in excellent condition and arrived in a timely fashion. I would definitely buy from this seller again.

After suffering through Lucy Calkins's huge book of little use and Donald Graves's dry meditations, I finally found a book that is worth saving after that graduate writing course is over. Tompkins devotes a good deal of time discussing the many types of expository writing and many genre studies, above and beyond the theories and ideas about setting up a writing workshop. The activities and examples are clear and useful, the diagrams terrific. Tompkins really knows how to write and, I assume, to teach. I will be using this book to teach graduate students of education and add its wonderful contents to my own repetoire of teaching tools in my 4th gr. classroom.

Very helpful with lots of good text suggestions

I needed this book for a course on guided writing. Very helpful and easy to read. A huge asset to books related to the writing process. I will be referring back to it often as I set up my own guided writing process.

I purchased this text for a reading course taking her word for it when she wrote that there were few changes from the third to the fifth edition. Now I have to purchase another copy because my instructor wants us to read sections that are NOT in the third edition. Talk about frustrating! I certainly would NOT purchase anything from this person again. I don't like being lied to.

I bought the e-version of the text because I live overseas and Pearson doesn't ship (tried customer service 6 times with no response, so it's an etext for me). The textbook content and writing are good. The interface is awful. Links to various video examples are linked to unrelated content. The highlight feature works on some pages and not others.I ended up having to buy an actual textbook used through a text-seller in the end bc the eversion was unusable. Maybe that's part of Pearson's plan. Make the experience so awful, students have to buy the paper-based text eventually.