CAROL FITZPATRICK

Areas of Interest: Composition and Rhetoric, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American and British Literature, and Southern Literature

Contact Information
Email: cfitzpat@umbc.edu
Office: PAHB 312
Office Number: 410-455-2050

Education
M.A. in English, SUNY at Stony Brook
B.A. in English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Biography

Carol Fitzpatrick, Principal Lecturer in English, was the Director of the Writing and Rhetoric Division of the English Department from 1996 to 2009. Since 2009, she has been the Associate Director of the Writing and Rhetoric Division until Fall 2015 when she once again became the Director. In her classes, she typically incorporates technology through Blackboard sites and encourages active student participation.

Her most recent book, co-written with Marybeth Ruscica and Vince Fitzpatrick, is The Complete Sentence Workout Book with Readings, 5th ed. (Boston, MA: Longman, 2004). Vince Fitzpatrick was the co-author also on the 2nd alternate edition of The Complete Sentence Workout Book (Heath, 1991). With Marybeth Ruscica Carol Fitzpatrick has co-authored Reading Thresholds, 2nd ed. (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999); Reading Passages (Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath and Company, 1997); Reading Pathways, 2nd ed. (Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath and Company, 1995); The Complete Sentence Workout Book, 3rd ed. (Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath and Company, 1994); The Complete Paragraph Workout Book: A Concise Guide to the Writing Process, 2nd ed. (Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath and Company, 1993); The Complete Writer’s Workout Book (Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath and Company, 1988). She also has written travel articles for the Baltimore Sun and magazine articles.

Books

The Complete Sentence Workout Book with Readings
Longman, 2004

The Complete Sentence Workout Book with Readings develops students’ acquisition of skills in grammar, punctuation, and mechanics through an unparalleled assortment of exercises and activities, helping them gain confidence in their sentence skills so they can focus on writing.
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Reading Thesholds
Houghton Mifflin, 1999

Reading Thresholds helps basic readers develop analytical abilities and apply them to material they will encounter in college and in their careers. Students progress through a series of paragraph- and essay-length readings, moving naturally to longer selections as their confidence builds.
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Reading Passages
D. C. Heath and Company, 1997