About: John G Maguire
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John G Maguire began college as a physics major, switched to English after three semesters, and then began newspaper work, where he was science and medicine editor on several daily news papers, including the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle and the Miami News. He began teaching writing a Boston University, where he directed the masters program in science journalism. In the mid-1990s he developed a new and quite different method of teaching college freshmen to write. He has spent years perfecting the course, which he has taught, at this writing, more than 50 times. He's the author of the Newsweek College Writing Guide, and its descendent, John Maguire's College Writing Guide. He currently lives in the Boston area. He teaches, he coaches teachers, and he edits scientific papers.
Posts by John G Maguire:
- Are you new to teaching first-year college writing? (August 1, 2018 - Uncategorized)
- Poor college writers compared to non-swimmers (July 4, 2018 - Uncategorized)
- College Writing: two methods, compared (May 29, 2018 - Uncategorized)
- Slow reading aloud in the bathroom (May 21, 2018 - Uncategorized)
- How writing is taught at one community college–comment on Tinberg and Nadeau (May 19, 2018 - Uncategorized)
- A friendly dispute with comp teacher Todd Anderson about sentence length (May 14, 2018 - Uncategorized)
- College Writing Guide Adoptions as of August 2019 (May 6, 2018 - Uncategorized)
- Sarah Perry defends the plain style in the Times of London (March 28, 2018 - Uncategorized)