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:
- Cormac McCarthy on editing science (October 25, 2019 - Uncategorized)
- A soprano who assigns the College Writing Guide (May 22, 2019 - Uncategorized)
- Writing is a behavior–like playing tennis (May 20, 2019 - Uncategorized)
- Michael Laser: “Even within a standard curriculum, you can teach students to write better sentences.” (October 6, 2018 - Uncategorized)
- Thinking about “hegemony” in college writing circles (September 11, 2018 - Uncategorized)
- Reasoning from first principles (August 29, 2018 - Uncategorized)
- Most of our incoming freshmen will not learn how to write (August 24, 2018 - Uncategorized)
- How to confuse writing students (August 22, 2018 - Uncategorized)
- At the Writing Program Administrators meeting, Sacramento (August 9, 2018 - Uncategorized)