Common Places: Integrated Reading and Writing by Lisa Hoeffner

Common Places: Integrated Reading and Writing by Lisa Hoeffner

Common Places, along with its author-created teaching resources and Connect Integrated Reading and Writing (a state-of-the-art learning technology product), represent a cohesive instructional framework to accelerate college readiness. With a seamlessly integrated foundation in reading and writing strategies, Common Places offers unique purpose-oriented projects for upper level IRW courses and provides a fresh approach to grammar that emphasizes sentence combining and grammar in context.

Common Places, along with its author-created teaching resources and Connect Integrated Reading and Writing (a state-of-the-art learning technology product), represent a cohesive instructional framework to accelerate college readiness. With a seamlessly integrated foundation in reading and writing strategies, Common Places offers unique purpose-oriented projects for upper level IRW courses and provides a fresh approach to grammar that emphasizes sentence combining and grammar in context.

Lisa Hoeffner is a Ph.D. candidate. The University of Houston awarded him a bachelor's degree in English with a focus on rhetoric. Dr. Hoeffner has been a professor of English and reading at McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas, since 1998. Dr. Hoeffner focuses on curriculum restructuring in developmental education in addition to her teaching positions. She is the project director for a Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board grant for developmental education enhancement and innovation. Dr. Hoeffner has provided leadership for universities across the state that are developing integrated reading and writing (INRW) programs, as well as for public school districts that are adopting INRW programs as college preparatory classes, since the introduction of integrated reading and writing in Texas.