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Perspectives on Argument
Second Edition
by Nancy Wood
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Nancy Wood is a professor in the Rhetoric and Composition program in the English department at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in argumentation, composition theory and pedagogy, reading theory and pedagogy, and principles and methods of evaluation. She also teaches courses in nineteenth-century American literature and Milton.
In addition, Wood is the author of a number of college textbooks including Perspectives on Argument and Writing Argumentative Essays, both published by Prentice Hall, and three reading textbooks, Improving Reading, Strategies for College Reading and Thinking, and College Reading and Study Skills. A new reading textbook, College Reading: Purposes and Strategies will be published by Prentice Hall, available in the fall of l999.
At present, Wood serves part-time as administrative fellow in the Office of the Provost at her university, where she is responsible for projects that benefit students and promote their retention at the university. She enjoys teaching freshmen herself and training new graduate students to teach freshmen. For the past nine years, she has trained the graduate teaching assistants in her department, who teach freshman courses in reading, writing, and critical thinking and in argumentation. She considers this one of her most significant contributions to the university.
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