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:
- Letter from a teacher in Singapore (March 29, 2016 - Uncategorized)
- “I don’t have any good ideas.” (March 17, 2016 - Uncategorized)
- Student samples (March 7, 2016 - Discussion)
- How to rescue a vague passage, step by step (February 24, 2016 - Uncategorized)
- An assignment on “ambition” with concrete nouns and people (January 12, 2016 - Uncategorized)
- Preface to “Ten Things Successful College Writers Do Differently” (December 16, 2015 - Uncategorized)
- The guide now has an isbn # (November 25, 2015 - Uncategorized)
- On the 70% active verb ratio (October 30, 2015 - Discussion, Uncategorized)
- Should college comp be a straight-line extension of high-school writing? No. (October 23, 2015 - Uncategorized)
- Grammar basics in Writing 101, but indirectly (October 19, 2015 - Uncategorized)