Taches d'encre: French Composition

Using a process-writing approach, this third-year composition text helps students master writing skills and gain confidence as writers. The text is set up in a workbook format and is written entirely in French, except for the first chapter. Students broaden their repertoire of related speech acts, vocabulary, grammatical structures, and stylistic elements through three major sections. Each chapter features a model text—a literary piece, journalistic selection, or informal writing—that represents the Francophone world.

Cheryl L. Krueger is an associate professor at the University of Virginia. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin (1992). Her areas of research are foreign language methodology, 19th-century literature, narrative theory, literature and film. She is also the co-author of Entretiens: Cours de Conversation, 2/e (2001). She frequently teaches the composition course at University of Virginia.

Maryse Fauvel, College of Willliam and Mary, teaches advanced writing courses as well as 20th-century French literature, women writers, French cinema, European cinema, literary theory, introduction to French literature. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research areas include literature and the visual arts, cinema, contemporary women writers and filmmakers, Postmodernism, post-colonial cultures.