... in the Composition Classroom Rob Faunce Whenever I want my cat to look at something instructive—a full moon, say, or a photograph of herself — a predictable choreography ensues. I point at the thing I want her to look at, and she, roused to curiosity, xes her attention on the tip of my extended nger...

... in the Composition Classroom Donna J. Kain Theorists and researchers of education in general, and of teaching composi- tion in particular, have long advocated replacing teacher-centered pedagogies with student-centered ones, and many of us are familiar with the litany of dif- ferences between them (see, e.g...

...Daniel R. Mangiavellano This article makes a case for using Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as a tool for skill-based writing instruction in the composition classroom. The novel employs prose strategies such as commonplaces and amplification that become springboards for class conversation about...

...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...

... in the news media, an improved understanding of the strategies that scholars use when they gather and interpret textual evidence, and intelligent discussions about the implications of rhetorical strategies utilizing Otherness. From the Classroom The Composition...

...: Science and Practice 11 . 3 : 230 – 41 . Bowen Tracey Whithaus Carl , eds. 2013 . Multimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press . Carillo Ellen C. 2016 . “ Creating Mindful Writers in First-Year Composition Courses: A Strategy...

.../news/education-38557838 . Gee James Paul . 2014 . An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method . 4th ed. London : Routledge . Grayson Mara Lee . 2017 . “ Race Talk in the Composition Classroom: Narrative Song Lyrics as Texts for Racial Literacy .” Teaching English...

... consumers engaging frequently with media as a form of composition. He navigates the limitations of Gregory Ulmer and Lev Manovitch, whose early work stressing the primacy of media literacies in composition classrooms is nonetheless seminal to the author's larger claims of film's educational import...

...Samantha Sabalis This article explores the benefits of bringing museum education into the composition classroom to help students develop confidence and skill in oral presentation. Drawing on current scholarship in object-based learning and engaging museum audiences, it outlines a project in which...

... and Technology in the Composition Classroom Teaching and Evaluating Writing in the Age of Computers and High-Stakes Testing. By Carl Whithaus. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005. Paul L. Yoder In primary school my father used an inkwell. Mistakes were corrected by scratching out or starting over...

... . “ Syntactics—Semantics—Pragmatics (Still Having One’s Cake?) .” In Teaching Theory , ed. Bradford Richard , 63 – 77 . Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan . Establishing Dialogue between Theory and Composition Classrooms A New Approach to Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble via “Moves...

... approaches to two pedagogical ecologies: first-year composition and an upper-level feminist rhetorics course. Predicting Futures, Performing Feminisms Chronology and Ideology in Composition Classrooms Eric Detweiler and Kate Lisbeth Pantelides Rereading Karen Kopelson s Rhetoric on the Edge of Cunning...

...Rachel McCabe Abstract Any attempt to control the content and conversations of first-year composition classrooms has become increasingly complicated by social media and technology. Building on the types of textual difficulty explored by scholars like Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori and Patricia Donahue...

... 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...

...Helane Androne This article examines the value and usage of ritual as a pedagogical tool in the literature-based composition classroom. Grounded in the interdisciplinarity of ritual studies, the author describes a ritual method that facilitates reflective writing, critical reading, student...

...Lindsey Row-Heyveld This article explores the advantages of pairing disability studies with the study of rhetoric/composition in the first-year seminar classroom. Examining the ways in which both disability studies and rhetoric interrogate issues of construction, it argues that the two fields...

... 43 : 433 – 54 . From the Classroom Somaesthetics, Composition, and the Ritual of Writing Joel Wilson William Butler Yeats ends his famous poem “Among School Children” on, I think, one of the most profound couplets in English verse: “O body...

...Tara Robbins Fee This article describes my experiment with surveillance technology as a composition teaching tool in a computer classroom. The technology, a software program called Remote Desktop, displayed live on my lectern screen all of my students' activities on their computers. While I first...

..., and literature classrooms at secondary and university levels. Productive Paradoxes Vernacular Use in the Teaching of Composition and Literature Dohra Ahmad and Shondel J. Nero Introduction The question of where vernacular language fits in education has been primar- ily addressed in the field...

... composition classrooms, instructors create theme-­based cur- ricula that emphasize analytical, argumentative, and research-­based writ- ing instruction. During Tulane’s first post-­Katrina semesters, composition Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition...