A Writer Teaches Writing: A Practical Method of Teaching Composition
Guidebook
By: Donald M. Murray
Date: 1968
Source: Murray, Donald M. A Writer Teaches Writing: A Practical Method of Teaching Composition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1968, 1–3.
About the Author: Donald M. Murray (1924–) began his career as a journalist. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1954 for editorial writing in the Boston Herald. He was a professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, where he inaugurated a journalism program and helped establish a graduate program in composition studies. Murray also has been a writing coach for several newspapers. He is the author of several books on writing and writing instruction as well as a novel and a collection of poems. As of 2003, he continued to write a column for the Boston Globe.
Introduction
Composition as a field of study began to develop in the early 1960s. Many in the field mark...
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