English Composition Teacher's Guidebook: How to Survive (and Even
Thrive) as a Part-time or Adjunct Instructor 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.