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A Rhetoric of Pleasure
Prose Style and Today’s Composition Classroom
T.R. Johnson
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We wish to acknowledge that parts of the introduction and the first chapter of this book appeared in slightly different form in College Composition and Communication , 52:4, June 2001. We apologize for the omission and thank Marilyn Cooper and the excellent staff at CCC , who brought this error to our attention.
How often have you seen that strange and wonderful surge of energy when students become truly engaged with writing—when they discover an intense and...
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A Way to Move
Rhetorics of Emotion and Composition Studies
Laura R. Micciche
, Dale Jacobs
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How does emotion shape the work of teachers and administrators in Composition Studies?
How are we schooled to use emotion in our professional lives?
What is the place of emotion in our academic relationships?
How do we think—and feel—about our feelings?
This groundbreaking volume offers a fresh and invigorating examination of emotion as a category of critical thought in Composition Studies. By posing fundamental questions and...
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Composition, Pedagogy & the Scholarship of Teaching
Deborah Minter
, Amy M. Goodburn
(Paperback + Companion Website)
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How do composition teachers document their teaching? What types of documentation work best? Teaching portfolios, course portfolios, philosophy statements, classroom observation? How can these materials provide essential testimony about our classrooms and our achievements, not just to ourselves and our colleagues but to faculty supervisors, tenure and promotion committees, deans, and provosts?
Documenting our work as teachers offers a rich and productive means for reflection,...
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Conflicts and Crises in the Composition Classroom
---and What Instructors Can Do About Them
Dawn Skorczewski
, Matthew Parfitt
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Classroom crises challenge all writing instructors, especially when they are new to the field. But even an old pro's resources can be stretched thin when race or gender becomes an issue or, more insidiously, when a difficult student undermines the course, questions professorial authority, or—worst of all—creates an atmosphere of distrust and dislike. Situations like these can derail a semester, but they also can encourage a reexamination of composition theory and a reinvention of classroom...
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Latino/a Discourses
On Language, Identity, and Literacy Education
Michelle Hall Kells
, Valerie Balester
, Victor Villanueva
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With the growth of the Latino/a population in the United States as a backdrop, Latino/a Discourses presents an incisive and timely focus on composition, literacy studies, and creative writing. How can teachers in higher education work with Latino/a students to negotiate the demands of schooling and the priorities of family life? What can we learn from the challenges and triumphs of Latinos/as in our classrooms? How can we help to legitimate linguistic diversity within the university...
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Race, Rhetoric, and Composition
Keith Gilyard
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Gilyard's book helps my understanding a great deal. Straight up: I've already adopted it for a graduate seminar in composition. —Journal of Advanced Composition With all our talk about race, much of the conversation and its attendant activity has been emotive rather than analytic. Theorizing race has yet to catch up with all the personal, albeit necessary, reflections in classrooms and professional outlets. The aim of Race, Rhetoric, and Composition is to...
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Rhetoric and Ethnicity
Keith Gilyard
, Vorris Nunley
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From style and genre to identity, politics, and pedagogy, America is characterized by a citizenry with multiple perspectives speaking and writing in multiple voices. Rhetoric and Ethnicity foregrounds the complexity of American culture and asks a series of basic questions:
How might ethnic rhetorics function as generative sites of difference?
How might ethnic rhetorics shape composition instruction?
How do they relate to the rhetorical tradition,...
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The Dissertation & the Discipline
Reinventing Composition Studies
Sheila Carter-Tod
, Nancy Welch
, Catherine Latterell
, Cindy Moore
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“To examine how reading and writing are carried out in school, we need to pay attention to the schooling of the dissertation.” —from the Introduction Writing a dissertation can be joyful and reaffirming, but it can also feel like wandering into a labyrinth where dimly lit pathways twist and turn toward disaster. What is a dissertation supposed to look like? What is a dissertation supposed to do? Who is supposed to—or allowed to—decide?
The Dissertation &...
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The Profession of English in the Two-Year College
Mark Reynolds
, Sylvia Holladay-Hicks
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The 1960s: a time of protests and civil rights marches, sit-ins and speak-outs, free-love rallies and anti-establishment Yip-ins. Yet going largely unnoticed was another powerful revolution: the explosive growth of the two-year college. In The Profession of English in the Two-Year College , those on the front lines of this movement record how they successfully taught a new kind of student in a re-imagined postsecondary institution.
Those students lived at home, worked to make...
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The War Against Grammar
David Mulroy
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Provocative, thoughtful, informative, combative—a book that challenges us to come to terms once more with the teaching of English grammar.
How can we improve the verbal skills of American students? How can we strengthen them as readers and writers? How can we best prepare America's youth to succeed in the study of a foreign language? According to Classics professor David Mulroy, the most important answer is grammar! Whether championing the grammatical analysis of phrases and...
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