...Lisa M. Dresner This article details a newspaper-based composition exercise focused on examining coverage of a trio of local political sex scandals. The exercise encouraged first-year composition students to analyze how the rhetorical strategies that the New York Post used in covering these three...

... emphasize lecturing, content coverage, or scholarly production with a workshop-style focus on writing, teaching, and metacognition. Examples from several graduate classroom experiences are provided. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Graduate seminar pedagogy profession convention lecture...

...Melissa Ames This essay discusses the affordances of using an affect-based approach to 9/11 discourses that facilitates teaching civic engagement. Representations and rhetoric about 9/11 are found in a range of modes—film, documentary, literature, news coverage, and official government documents...

... that a good teacher can use.” The Influences Course and Coverage Because instructors recognize that the first college literature course students take may also be the last, they often fear insufficient “coverage,” a concern that has been addressed by a number of recent scholars. Elaine Showalter...

... it establishes community through shared interests but also because the particular interests of the graduate students working on YiC inform the choices we make regarding coverage. Before I go further, let me stress that YiC writers are not simply reporters but also design- ers responsible for what, why...

... such as the survey, the series presents further evidence in support of Gerald Graff s observations in Professing Literature. The traditional lower-division survey of British or Amer- ican literature provides a microcosm of the effects of the field-coverage princi- ple. Graff (1987: 6 7) explains: The field-coverage...

... texts here, but this does not make the transition any easier. Green    Considering Independent Study  437 In each of these cases, students have clearly taken on board the impli- cation that pace of coverage in lectures and seminars needs...

... occur in a context and while the undergraduate program in my department has long since moved away from a coverage model, we are only beginning a conversation about moving the graduate program from a canon of texts to modes of inquiry. What I recommend to graduate students, then, is likely to conflict...

... occur in a context and while the undergraduate program in my department has long since moved away from a coverage model, we are only beginning a conversation about moving the graduate program from a canon of texts to modes of inquiry. What I recommend to graduate students, then, is likely to conflict...

... occur in a context and while the undergraduate program in my department has long since moved away from a coverage model, we are only beginning a conversation about moving the graduate program from a canon of texts to modes of inquiry. What I recommend to graduate students, then, is likely to conflict...

... in my department has long since moved away from a coverage model, we are only beginning a conversation about moving the graduate program from a canon of texts to modes of inquiry. What I recommend to graduate students, then, is likely to conflict with their experience of the program, though...

... worried that we re doing something wrong. Swerdlow reminds me that decisions on what methods we will teach or rec- ommend occur in a context and while the undergraduate program in my department has long since moved away from a coverage model, we are only beginning a conversation about moving...

... such as multicultural remain in literary discourse. I am also aware of the challenges of using literary texts as difficult (and as long) as Beloved in composition courses, in which students writing must be paramount; however, I believe that these concerns are grounded in an assumption of coverage that is neither...

... Scholes 2001: 17 21, 64 75, for Tate s and Millay s texts). We can and should do this, in both secondary school and college. The objections to including criticism in literature courses are mainly made on behalf of greater coverage of literature itself, since critical texts must displace some literary...

... the urban civilization of medieval Italy . Jansen Katherine Drell Joanna Andrews Frances , eds. 2009 . Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press . Anthology of translated primary sources, unique in its coverage of the whole of the Italian...

... that, even as we rely on them, we cannot neglect to question our taxonomies. For all its coverage, this collection does not uselessly overlap with guides to Chaucer, William Langland, Arthurian romance, and the like. One of the best things about the Handbook, in fact, is that it welcomes readers...

... for themselves? For me, the difficulties of course design are byproducts of the fictions of coverage and representation, which obscure not only the impossibility of the cultural “equality of representation” syllabus (Jay 1997: 157) but also the problem of representing the profession itself (see Culler...

... . Menlo Park, CA : Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching . Sipress Joel M. Voelker David J. 2008 . “ From Learning History to Doing History: Beyond the Coverage Model .” In Exploring Signature Pedagogies: Approaches to Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind , ed. Gurung...

... quickly became a topic of news coverage and for the most part was praised by the mainstream media. As the U.S. News and World Report (2009) pointed out, the story led all three major network newscasts: “ABC World News reported, ‘The President did not mince words this afternoon, indeed he was angry...

... the Celtic texts that are in the anthologies now. The article itself is about how to justify and design multilingual coverage of British litera- ture in a way that avoids a counterproductive reliance on anachronisms and stereotypes. Let us first consider the nature of our enterprise. Why might one...