FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 20, 2001 CONTACT: Lisa Lacher, (515) 271-3119 EXPERT ON WRITING INSTRUCTION TO SPEAK AT DRAKE Marilyn S. Sternglass, an award-winning author and expert on writing instruction, will speak at Drake University Tuesday, March 6, on "How Writing Based on Reading Stimulates Learning." The speech, which is free and open to the public as part of Drake's Writers and Critics Series, will start at 4:30 p.m. in the Honors Lounge of Medbury Hall, 1317 28th St. Sternglass is professor emerita of English at the City College of the City University of New York, where she has taught courses in writing and directed the master's degree program in language and literacy. She also has served on the faculties of Indiana University and Carnegie-Mellon University. Her books include "Time to Know Them: A Longitudinal Study of Writing and Learning at the College Level," co-winner of the 1998 Modern Language Association Mina P. Shaughnessy Award for a book on research in the teaching of English. The book also received the 1999 Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award. Sternglass is also the author of "Reading, Writing, and Reasoning" and "The Presence of Thought: Introspective Accounts of Reading and Writing." Sternglass' appearance at Drake is sponsored by Drake's English Department, First-Year Seminar Program and Center for the Humanities. For more information, call (515) 271-2853.