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The Power of Writing: Dartmouth '66 in the Twenty-First Century argues that any discussion of why writing well matters should extend beyond composition and rhetoric scholars to capture the knowledge that outstanding teachers and writers themselves put to work every day. The editors have brought together scholars and public intellectuals (including New York Times best-selling authors David McCullough and Steve Strogatz) from the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and interdisciplinary fields to engage in a dialogue about some of the controversial questions related to writing today. Readers will engage with questions about what it means to write well and how different answers affect the teaching and learning of writing in higher education. Each anchor article--representing disciplines as varied as musicology, African studies, mathematics, and history--receives responses from Dartmouth faculty and nationally renowned faculty members in writing studies programs.

This timely and wide-ranging collection will have appeal far beyond writing instructors and is specifically designed for readers across disciplines.

Hardcover is un-jacketed.