Talk:Donald Murray (writer)

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Moved to talk.... edit

The following text was posted on the article by Special:Contributions/74.74.157.218 --After Midnight 0001 03:22, 27 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

I arrived at a much longer list of books by Don Murray starting on book web sites and then switching to WorldCat. Textbooks ? (Wasn't sure precisely which of the books about writing were textbooks and which weren't, so I'll leave that for someone else to separate.) Other books about writing A Writer Teaches Writing: A Practical Method of Teaching Composition. 1968. A Writer Teaches Writing: A Complete Revision. 1985. A Writer Teaches Writing Revised. 2003. Perhaps the Professor Should Cut Class. With Lester Allen Fisher. 1971. Write To Communicate: The Language Arts in Process. 1973. Learning by Teaching. 1982. Expecting the Unexpected: Teaching Myself - and Others - to Read and Write. 1989. Shoptalk: Learning to Write with Writers. 1990. Read to Write: A Writing Process Reader, Instructor's Edition. 1990. Read to Write: A Writing Process Reader. 1993. Writing for Your Readers: Notes on the Writer's Craft from the Boston Globe. 1992. The Craft of Revision, Third Edition. 1997. The Craft of Revision. 2003. The Craft of Revision. (American Public University System) 2006. Write to Learn. 1998. Write to Learn (with InfoTrac ). 2004. Writing to Deadline: The Journalist at Work. 2000. The Essential Don Murray: Lessons from America's Greatest Writing Teacher. By Donald M. Murray, Thomas Newkirk and Lisa C. Miller, eds. 2009. Memoirs Writer in the Newsroom: A Moving Narrative of a Life as a Reporter, Writer, Teacher, and Above All, Student of the World. 1995. Crafting a Life in Essay, Story, Poem. 1996. My Twice-Lived Life: A Memoir. 2001. Other nonfiction Man Against Earth: The Story of Tunnels and Tunnel Builders. 1961. The World of Sound Recording. 1965. A Search: New Technology for Pavement Snow and Ice Control (Environmental protection technology series). 1972. The Literature of Tomorrow : An Anthology of Student Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. 1990. The Lively Shadow: Living with the Death of a Child. 2003. Fiction The Man Who Had Everything. 1964.

Name Change? edit

In the writing/education fields, it seems that he is referred to as Donald Murray, rather than Don. Is it possible to change his name on this page and through the search engine? Acburke1 (talk) 22:52, 16 February 2012 (UTC)Reply

Hi Acburke1, yes. Look on the article page, at the tabs at the top: one of these is the "move" tab. Click that, and enter the new name for the article, and it will be renamed (as long as there isn't already another article by that name). (A redirect from the old name will be created at the same time, so that anyone still looking for it by that name can find it as well.) LadyofShalott 00:33, 21 February 2012 (UTC)Reply

Impact of recent student edits edit

This article has recently been edited by students as part of their course work for a university course. As part of the quality metrics for the education program, we would like to determine what level of burden is placed on Wikipedia's editors by student coursework.

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Wikipedia Ambassador Program course assignment edit

  This article is the subject of an educational assignment at Ball State University supported by Rhetoric and Composition and the Wikipedia Ambassador Program during the 2012 Q2 term. Further details are available on the course page.

The above message was substituted from {{WAP assignment}} by PrimeBOT (talk) on 16:02, 2 January 2023 (UTC)Reply