Title: How to Teach Composition in South Africa (or Anywhere...)
Review: Here's an interesting look at social literacy theories presented in the form of a correspondence between a struggling young professor at the University of Western Cape in South Africa (Katz) and his former Sociolinguistics professor from NYU (Rouse). The book offers a lot of theory and practical applications thereof to anyone involved in teaching reading and writing (especially at the college or adult levels). Rouse's opinionated letters are particularly invigorating. Although I wouldn't recommend the book to a general audience, it does present a fascinating backstory about South African life at the time following the fall of apartheid.
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