...Mark Schaub Beyond These Shores: An Argument for Internationalizing Composition Mark Schaub In the days following the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, many of us who teach composition courses at American colleges and universities felt compelled to talk about the events in our classes. Some...

... and Material Culture . New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. van Slyck, Phyllis. 1997 . “Repositioning Ourselves in the Contact Zone.” College English 59 : 149 -69. Young, David. 2001 . “Reading Larry Levis.” Field 64 : 61 -78. Argument, Evidence, and Engagement: Training Students...

... This essay began as a 2003 MLA presentation. Thanks to the Division on the Teaching of Literature and especially to James Phelan for arranging this panel, one in a series on postcanonical teaching. 304 Pedagogy Grammar Matters: A Creative Writer s Argument Anna Leahy Wallace Stegner (2002: 64 65...

.... Persuasion and Argument: Coterminous? Patricia Bizzell In 1977, heading toward her early death from cancer, Mina Shaughnessy published a legacy for her fellow scholars in rhetoric and composition stud- ies, Some Needed Research on Writing. Here she urges an agenda explor- ing what she calls the rituals...

...Donald C. Jones Thank You for Arguing . Heinrichs Jay . New York : Three Rivers Press , 2007 . © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Reviews A Textbook Argument The Success of Thank You for Arguing and Its Pedagogical...

...Laura Aull; Valerie Ross This article analyzes ideologies underpinning argument-based writing assignments and considers how they may contribute to a current climate of polarization. The authors suggest that the argument-based essay may be what Kenneth Burke called an unquestioned and habituated...

...James Phelan © 2001 Duke University Press 2001 527 F r o m t h e C l a s s r o o m On Teaching Critical Arguments: A Matrix of Understanding James Phelan Today s undergraduate literature courses are noticeably different from those of even ten years ago in their frequent use of essays...

... on an experiment in using a writing course to teach critical thinking skills and vice versa, with special emphasis on helping students to get beyond their aversion to and distrust of argument. The course assigned short argument analyses, an exercise in literary interpretation, and a research paper in for students...

...Catherine Gubernatis Dannen This article argues that popular sports media (such as websites, TV shows, and tweets) can be used in the freshman composition classroom to introduce students to academic argument and to encourage them to reimagine their own writing styles. Because sportswriters...

...-witnessing to distinguish inner experience from eyewitness testimony. Flesh-witnesses speak of combat as a transformative and indescribable experience comparable to the sublime. This view is often attributed to militarists, but Harari shows that it also motivates pacifists. Even antiwar arguments like those...

... of trigger warnings in the college classroom, specifically in relation to “Fantomina.” It first defines trigger warnings and explains the ongoing arguments for and against them. It then describes the author's initial confusion and ambivalence about student requests for trigger warnings. Finally, the article...

...Karen L. Kopelson The author reconsiders and revises her advocacy of the pedagogical performance of neutrality and argues that performing or otherwise rehabilitating notions of “objectivity” as we teach argument may be particularly useful and urgent in the Trump era. Rhetoric on the Edge of Cunning...

...Joshua Daniel-Wariya; Lynn C. Lewis This article describes the rationale, development, and implementation of a digital archival curriculum within the first-year composition program at Oklahoma State University. Such a curriculum helps students engage genuine inquiry to discover arguments rather...

... course practitioners can use for developing, implementing, and evaluating their teaching methods. The underlying argument is that theme courses can support learning about writing, so long as theme selection and implementation work in purposeful support of the course’s learning about writing goals...

... annotation can facilitate closer digital reading and scaffold text-anchored argumentation practices. Works Cited Abaci Serdar , Quick Joshua , and Morrone Anastasia . 2017 . “ Student Engagement with E-Texts: What the Data Tell Us .” EDUCAUSE Review , October . er.educause.edu:443...

... attentively, without argument. University classrooms can thus play a vital role in democratic culture, as spaces in which a broader range of voices can be heard and in which minority voices are specially protected and projected. From my perspective, the exercise enacted the following beliefs: first, I had...

... to this examination, the essay proposes that the Boyer Report attempted to alter teaching by arguing that teachers and the systems that support them needed to change, an argument that failed to convince college faculty to change. The article concludes with the proposal that the real exigence facing college faculty...

... political arguments. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Work Cited Johnson T. R. Letter Joe Livingston Judith Kemerait . 2009 . “ Floating Foundations: Kairos, Community, and a Composition Program in Post-Katrina New Orleans .” College English 72 : 29 – 47...

... for teaching revision, it enacts an underlying argument that pedagogy is metaphor. In doing so, it offers four practical strategies for teaching students to revise. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Works Cited Althusser Louis . 1970 . “ Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses...

... within them, yet many composition students lack the rhetorical awareness to present effective arguments in multimodal digital interfaces. To address this issue, the author designed a project to introduce students to public writing while reflecting on the implications of the permanence of their writing...