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...Jaclyn Carter; Michael Tavel Clarke; Faye Halpern; Derritt Mason; Jessica Nicol; Morgan Vanek Abstract The activity of close reading lies at the heart of literary studies, a “signature pedagogy” that distinguishes English from other disciplines. Despite its centrality to the discipline, however...

... significantly more radical — to question the purpose and potential of prison education. In the process, the essay measures close reading, a textual practice that is also the hallmark of literary study, against the highest possible liberationist goals of the prison abolition movement. © 2017 by Duke University...

...Laura Schechter Examining multiple English translations of the same text can productively engage students in the process of close reading. By scrutinizing seemingly minor variations in psalm translations, students begin to develop focused interpretations based on textual evidence...

... of an early modern lyric or dramatic text when it is situated in different contexts; it enhances the students’ ability to work independently and derive pleasure from the serendipity of the archive; and perhaps most important, it can actually help students develop a clearer and more effective practice of close...

...Erick Kelemen Textual criticism, often ignored or confined to graduate study, is academic writing based on close reading and therefore is ideal for undergraduate study because it teaches readers to be more careful and skeptical. Critical editing assignments require students to negotiate historical...

...Theresa Tinkle; Daphna Atias; Ruth M. McAdams; Cordelia Zukerman This article presents the authors’ innovative approach to the challenges of teaching students in a large lecture survey course to perform effective close readings, and sets forth a rigorous qualitative assessment of students’ learning...

...Lauren Silber Abstract Must we avoid the subjective and the personal when we stick to the text as close readers? By examining a moment of affective disruption in an advanced seminar, this autoethnographic account suggests that students should engage with their feelings as they develop meaningful...

... in the twenty-first century. Gulya proposes teaching Tristram Shandy and other self-referential texts within the context of writing studies. This approach helps our students recognize the close relationship between writing and cognition and, by so doing, brings their attention to writing as a process as well...

... to pose the pedagogical challenges common to teaching all long poems: asking students to read both closely and at length, to discern unifying tropes or themes across manifold details or narrative episodes, to engage in sufficient discussion commensurate with the long poem's complexity, and to discover...

...Gregory Jay This essay argues that a pedagogy of “dialogue across differences” should be infused into the core curriculum and function as the link joining multicultural education to service learning. Close examination of student reflections and journal writings reveals how such dialogue can enhance...

... distribution and collaboration, raises questions about how this also changes the visibility of faculty's administrative labor, and may contribute to misperceptions about the intellectual work and expertise required for service and writing program administration. We close by proposing design as a critical...

... skills, and explore the structures of contextual frameworks necessary for close readings while modeling vital research practices. Works Cited Alexievich Svetlana . 2006 . Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster . New York : Picador . BBC . 2017 . “ Puerto Rico...

... scaffold students into critical perspectives by linking critical pedagogy more closely with efforts to develop students’ rhetorical meta-awareness of writing. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 critical pedagogy threshold concepts first-year composition metacognition rhetoric...

... students closely observed objects at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and critiqued a museum tour before presenting on their objects on-site at the museum. As well as teaching students new skills, the project also encouraged them to use their own experiences as audience members in the classroom...

...Nancy L. Chick; Holly Hassel; Aeron Haynie This article documents a scholarship of teaching and learning project designed to help literature students cultivate the core disciplinary skill of reading for complexity. We offer a close reading of student responses from a collaboratively designed lesson...

...Adam Ellwanger; Paul G. Cook The publication of E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy and Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind in 1987 represented an exceptional moment, an opportunity for disciplinary and institutional reflection about the role and function of English studies, rhetoric...

...Adam Ellwanger Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind elicited a storm of critical discourse regarding the condition of higher education in the United States. This essay performs a retrospective evaluation of the rhetorical modes that animated that body of discourse, suggesting...

... because of the intricate scaffolding I create that requires close interaction outside of class with me, with one or two peer mentors, and with small groups of other students in the class, and that is actively supported by the library, which creates a special “Joyce room” whenever I offer my course...

... as a closed, linear, universal process prevents students from leaving the liminal space of the composition classroom. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Works Cited Anderson Charles M. MacCurdy Marian . 2000 . Writing and Healing: Toward an Informed Practice . Urbana, IL : National...

... a pedagogical answer to the question of how to incorporate medieval rhetoric within courses on the history of rhetoric, by providing a close reading of three symmetrical cantos of Dante’s Commedia that are specifically concerned with the ethics of persuasive discourse. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012...