Taches d'encre: French Composition (World Languages) - Softcover

Using a process-writing approach, this third-year composition text will help students master their writing skills in order to become confident authors, who have found their voice in written French. The text is set up in a workbook format and is written entirely in French, except for the first chapter. Each chapter begins and ends with a creative writing exercise. In between these "book-ends", students will broaden their repertoire of related speech acts, vocabulary, grammatical structures and stylistic elements as illustrated by their usage a literary piece, journalistic selection, or informal writing, drawn from the rich repertoire of Francophone (written) production (expression).

H. Jay Siskin (Ph.D., Cornell) is Professor of French and Program Chair of World Languages at Cabrillo College. He is the author of five textbooks in French, as well as numerous articles and reviews that have appeared in such publications as THE FRENCH REVIEW, FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS, and the PMLA. Prof. Siskin serves as chair of the Modern Language Association's Division on the Teaching of Language, a member of that association's Committee on Awards and Honors and its Delegate Assembly. Cheryl Krueger is associate professor of French at the University of Virginia, where she teaches courses on French language, literature, culture, and cinema. She is editor of Dix-Neuf, (Journal of the Society of Dix-neuviemistes), and has served on the AAUSC editorial board. Krueger is an elected member of the MLA's Nineteenth-Century French Literature Division Executive Committee. She is author of The Art of Procrastination: Baudelaire's Poetry in Prose (University of Delaware, 2007), and editor of Approaches to Teaching Baudelaire's Prose Poems (MLA, 2016). Professor Krueger is co-author of Mise-en-scene: Cinema et Lecture. Her articles have appeared in journals including: Dix-Neuf, French Forum, Foreign Language Annals, Literature/Film Quarterly, Modern Languages Open, NCFS, Romance Notes, and Women in French Studies. Her current research focuses on olfaction, perfume and smell culture, in relation to 19th-century French fiction. Krueger teaches a variety of courses in the undergraduate major, the MA, and PhD program. Her interest in helping students find their voice in French developed over the many years she served as Language Program Director at UVA. Her approach to teaching writing is informed by a combination of research in SLA and plenty of practice experimenting with new techniques and course design. While Taches d'encre is carefully designed to reach students who have completed approximately two years of French, she advocates the book's interactive, process-writing or writers at any level, from students just beginning to professionals writing for publication. Maryse Fauvel is the chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and a professor in French/Francophone Studies at the College of William and Mary (PhD University of Wisconsin). Her research areas include literature and the visual arts, cinema, contemporary women writers and filmmakers, postmodernism, and post-colonial cultures. She published numerous articles as well as Exposer l'Autre: Essai sur la Cite Nationale de l' Histoire de l' Immigration et le Musee du Quai Branly (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2014), A Vous de Voir: De l'idee au projet filmique (Paris: Casteilla, 2010) co-authored with Martin and Martin, Scenes d' interieur: Six romanciers des annees 1980-1990 (Birmingham: Summa, 2007) and Taches d'encre (1-4 editions), co-authored with Siskin and Krueger. She teaches advanced writing courses as well as twentieth-century French literature, women writers, French cinema, European cinema, literary theory, secrets and revelations, ecocriticism, etc.