... counterpoint to the generic conventions of the spy thriller within the increasingly polarized sociopolitical context of the Indian subcontinent. The film presents an unlikely female protagonist as both the physical agent and the psychological subject of the violence integral to the “action” of an espionage...

...David Seitz Students' writing of parody can provide a more persuasive vehicle than conventional academic writing to move students from their intuitive awareness of irony to critical analysis of rhetorical strategies. Combining parody writing with strong critical reflection can encourage a more...

...Leslie Ritchie; Judith W. Fisher This article charts the collaborative production of a play designed to show that performing literary history enables students' perception of history as process and performance. The play Before & After highlighted conventions of seventeenth-century prologues...

...Peter H. Khost; Debra Rudder Lohe; Chuck Sweetman The authors invite English studies faculty to reconsider traditional graduate seminar pedagogies in light of the changing academy and evolving professional identities. Recommendations include balancing currently conventional methods that may...

...Andrew Elfenbein Academics have inherited conventions for the presentation of literature in anthologies that do not take into account difficulties in comprehension that undergraduates have with difficult material, such as Romantic poetry. This article describes two experimental surveys given...

... in shock, leaving her daughter to be taken in by the family of a villager who turns out to be Ellen's foster brother. Pairing Bowles's poem with Opie's novel allows students to explore the roles of genre (and generic conventions) in the presentation of similar tales and to examine both the technical...

..., and other courses: analyzing and writing for explicit editorial guidelines (“standards” in information science, “house style” in editorial practice); understanding, conforming to, and even negotiating conventions of genres and subgenres; collaborating online; writing for an audience that not only is real...

... by exploring monstrousness in Victorian science fiction novels, such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , and then shift to a study of how conventions of these novels recur in novels that examine race in American society, such as Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird . In combination with class discussion and course...

..., this article proposes that greater attention to students' reading practices and to the genres (including conventions and contexts) students read will help them become more purposeful readers in our classrooms. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 reading pedagogy digital genre technology...

... and faculty today do a substantial amount of work and writing in digital environ- ments, it is curious that few writing instructors or teachers in other disci- plines for that matter integrate netiquette or digital writing conventions into their classrooms. In this essay, I will focus on electronic...

... Derangement of Epitaphs.” In Truth and Interpretation: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson , ed. Ernest Le Pore, 433 - 46. New York: Blackwell. ———. 2001 . “Communication and Convention.” In Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation, 2nd ed. , 265 - 80. Oxford: Clarendon. Deans...

... . The Violence of Literacy . Portsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook . Tardy Christine M. 2016 . Beyond Convention: Genre Innovation in Academic Writing . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press . Thaiss Christopher Zawacki Terry Myers . 2002 . “ Questioning Alternative Discourses: Reports...

...: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Batten Charles L. Jr. 1978 . Pleasurable Instruction: Form and Convention in Eighteenth-Century Travel Literature . Berkeley : University of California Press . Blanton Casey . 1997 . Travel Writing: The Self...

... and conventions across different literary arguments. In a study comparing academic articles in the sciences and literature, Susan Peck MacDonald (1987) finds that problem definition is far less regularized or conventionalized in literary studies than in scientific writing. Thus a new- comer to literary analysis...

.... 1989 . “Sojourner Truth, Speech at The Woman's Rights Convention Akron, Ohio, 1851.” In Man Cannot Speak for Her: Key Texts of the Early Feminists . Vol. 2 , 99 – 102. Westport, CT: Greenwood. Fitch, Suzanne Pullon, and Roseann M. Mandziuk. 1997 . Sojourner Truth as Orator: Wit, Story...

... not only about form but about compositional concerns: tone, diction, prose style, character development, plot, setting, visual design, and hypertext navigation strategies. Genres are useful guideposts for students working in unfamiliar ter- ritory like hypertext (Bazerman 1997), and the conventional...

... the university, including from peers and supervisees, regardless of whether they are using conventional or alternative forms of assessment (Perryman-Clark 2016 ). Even faculty who express hopefulness about the potential of ungrading to cultivate nonhierarchical, liberatory ways of relating to students...

... perceive discourse conventions of potentially “occluded genres” (Swales 1990) — graduate student papers and conference proposals (Berkenkotter and Huckin 1995), article submissions (Matsuda and Tardy 2007), and grant applications (Tardy 2005). In terms of discourse specific to composition studies...

... and narrative distance. But by then we had already read stories that challenged those rules. Because of this, I could say, “But we’ve seen stories that broke those rules,” and stu- dents would jump in as quickly as I would to offer examples. This constant exposure of rules as conventions — guidelines...

...Paul T. Corrigan Reviews Roundtable Digging into Literature: Strategies for Reading, Analysis, and Writing. By Joanna Wolfe and Laura Wilder. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2016. 448 pages. Rhetorical Strategies and Genre Conventions...