Background
Walvoord, Barbara Ellen was born on May 30, 1941 in Monmouth, New Jersey, United States. Daughter of Christian Herman and Marie Jeanette (Verduin) Walvoord.
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Helping Students Write Well has become the standard manual for most college instructors seeking to integrate writing into their courses more effectively. The book suggests techniques for responding to student work, guiding student peer groups, and dealing with specific writing problems. Aimed at college faculty in a variety of disciplines -- history, sociology, biology, marketing, psychology, literature, and others -- Barbara Walvoord's lively text provides methods for helping students -- generate ideas -- bring topics into focus -- gather and integrate library information -- organize reasoning and evidence -- follow a required format -- draft, revise, and edit -- improve style and mechanics -- compose visual aidsHelping Students Write Well is an essential tool both for those who teach writing and for those who want to make writing a significant part of their courses.
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Walvoord, Barbara Ellen was born on May 30, 1941 in Monmouth, New Jersey, United States. Daughter of Christian Herman and Marie Jeanette (Verduin) Walvoord.
Bachelor of Science, Hope College, 1963; Master of Arts, Ohio State University, 1964; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Iowa, 1976; HHD (honorary), Phillips U., 1991.
Instructor of English, U. Delaware, Newark, 1964-1965;
instructor assistant Professor of English, Control College, Pella, Iowa., 1965-1979;
head division humanities, Control College, Pella, Iowa., 1976-1979;
associate Professor of English, Control College, Pella, Iowa., 1976-1979;
co-director, Maryland. Writing Project, Baltimore, 1980-1983;
Professor of English, Loyola College, Baltimore, 1979-1991;
Professor of English, director Writing Across the Curriculum, U. Cincinnati, 1991-1996;
Professor of English, director Kaneb Center for Tchg. and Learning, U. Cincinnati, since 1996. Consultant on teaching for institutions of higher learning, since 1976.
Chair History communications of Reformed Church in America, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1977-1983. Coordinator Baltimore Area Consortium for Writing Across the Curriculum, 1980-1984.
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Director Iowa Impact Project for Women, Marion County, Iowa, 1974-1976, Pella, Iowa chapter of Project on Equal Education Rights, 1978. Co-director for conference program National Women's Studies Association, 1980. Member Modern Language Association, American Association for Higher Education, Association for Study of Higher Education, Conference on College Composition and Comm.
Married Albert William Fassler, Junior, December 30, 1964. Children; Lisa Katherine Fassler Warner, Brian Albert Fassler. Married Hoke LaFollette Smith, June 30, 1979.