Tom Mulder's book is a practical and motivational handbook for the
multitudes of itinerant English adjunct and part-time instructors who
travel between multiple colleges and universities teaching English
composition to students from different cultures and age groups. The book
offers advice and recommendations that are geared specifically for this
audience together with sufficient ready-to-use teaching material for a
semester-long first-year composition course. The author uses imagined
collegial conversations over coffee and hiking and coaching themes to
draw lessons for teachers, beginning each chapter with a vignette based
on his experiences hiking in scenic locations. The book contains
materials for students that can be projected or copied as handouts,
including work on sentence combining and analysis as well as topics,
peer response sheets, and assessment rubrics for essay assignments. Both
the hiking vignettes and classroom activities are illustrated by
photographs which add to the interest and enjoyment of reading this
book.