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Simon & Schuster
Handbook for Writers
Fifth Edition
by Lynn Quitman Troyka
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Lynn Quitman Troyka earned her Ph.D. at New York University and taught for many years at the City University of New York (CUNY), including Queensborough Commun-ity College, the Center for Advanced Studies in Education at the Graduate School, and in the graduate program in Language and Literacy at City College. She served also as Senior Research Associate in the Instruc-tional Resource Center, CUNY.
Dr. Troyka is an author in composition/rhetoric for the Encyclopedia of English Studies and Language Arts, Scholastic, 1993, and in basic writing for the Encyclopedia of Rhetoric, 1994. Former editor of the Journal of Basic Writing (198588), she has published in journals such as College Composition and Communication, College English, and Writing Program Administration and in books from Southern Illinois Press, Random House, the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and Heineman/Boynton/Cook. She has lectured at hundreds of colleges and universities and at national and international meetings.
Dr. Troyka is the author of the Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers, Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall, 1996; the Simon & Schuster Concise Handbook, Prentice Hall, 1992; and Structured Reading, Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall, 1995. She is co-author (with Richard Lloyd-Jones, John Gerber, et al.) of A Checklist and Guide for Reviewing Departments of English, Modern Language Association (MLA); and of Steps in Composition, Sixth Edition (with Jerrold Nudelman), Prentice Hall, 1994.
Dr. Troyka currently serves as Chair of the Two-Year College Association (TYCA) of the NCTE. She is a past chair of the Conference on College Composition (CCCC), of the College Section of NCTE, and of the Writing Division of MLA. She was named Rhetorician of the Year in 1993, was given the Nell Ann Pickett Award for Service in 1995 by CCCC and TYCA, and chaired the 1995-96 Task Force on the Future of CCCC.
"All this information," says Dr. Troyka, "tells what I've done, not who I am. I am a teacher. Teaching is my life's work, and I love it." |
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