... standards in writing. I document the process of building a new writing assessment program, including a writing assessment exam and a remediation program. I discuss our rubric and scoring procedures, samples of student work, and the poor score trends for our exam. I describe the difficulties in working...

...Gail McDonald Hypertext and the Teaching of Modernist Difficulty Gail McDonald T. S. Eliot (1963: 112), who famously declared in 1921 that poets in our civi- lization, as it exists at present, must be difficult, made difficulty a badge of modernist honor. The attitudes of academic criticism...

...John Webster © 2006 Duke University Press 2006 The Elements (and Pleasures) of Difficulty . By Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori and Patricia Donahue. New York: Pearson Education-Longman, 2005. Harkin, Patricia. 2005 . “The Reception of Reader-Response Theory.” College Composition...

...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...

...MaryAnn K. Crawford © 2006 Duke University Press 2006 The Elements (and Pleasures) of Difficulty . By Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori and Patricia Donahue. New York: Pearson Education-Longman, 2005. Harkin, Patricia. 2005 . “The Reception of Reader-Response Theory.” College...

...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...

... by the “stranger” poet, Beachy Head poses many difficulties for students. Ruwe identifies student difficulties with the poem's form and content and suggests practical methods for overcoming these barriers. She provides a reading guide to the poem's various sections and suggests ways to help students experience...

...Kate Singer; Harriet Kramer Linkin The introduction explores some of the reasons that teaching Landon’s poetry has historically posed difficulties for scholars seeking to present Landon to students and shows how these very difficulties can help teachers confront myriad interesting questions...

... learning experiences, improving self-efficacy and engagement. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 reading literacy transfer difficulty integrated reading and writing Works Cited Allen Ira James . 2012 . “Reprivileging Reading: The Negotiation of Uncertainty.” Pedagogy 12...

... to help them understand those texts. The article suggests that the difficulty associated with such texts, rather than intimidating students, actually invites them to engage with the reading process more actively and enthusiastically. The article discusses the premise and overall structure of the class...

... generous and democratic of institutions. It discusses the difficulty of finding an appropriate term for nontenured faculty, the unlikelihood of untenured faculty ever having full participation in the lives of their departments and institutions, the inequity of support given to the tenured for research...

...Matthew Newcomb This article argues for using rhetorical quandaries as a basis for composition courses. Following work in composition that considers the notion of “problem,” the article explores constraints as a way to determine main difficulties in writing situations. Course examples indicate...

... by reading Patrick Allitt's I'm the Teacher, You're the Student , Shari Stenberg's Professing and Pedagogy , Paul Kameen's Writing/Teaching , Gerald Graff's Clueless in Academe , and one textbook, Mariolina Salvatori and Pat Donahue's The Elements (and Pleasures) of Difficulty . The essay references a range...

..., and of student work on a “Writing in Augmented Space” assignment, demonstrate how the literate and literary possibilities afforded by these logics, which first appear as difficulties, identify techniques of an emergent genre of writing in the English studies curriculum. Works Cited “ Aurasma .” n.d...

... the difficulties of being a precarious academic, in the hopes of creating a place of mutual understanding, support, and solidarity. Works Cited American Association of University Professors . n.d. “ Background Facts on Contingent Faculty Positions .” www.aaup.org/issues/contingency/background-facts...

... the same exercise twice, with artificially imposed difficulties the second time, might help them learn concrete steps for working through mounting irritation. In short, frustration and anxiety are not things that emerge from time to time—they are ever-present. The author argues that it is the job...

... prose style and student writing. Additionally, the novel’s characters admit to difficulties with composition, such as language usage and organization in letter writing, that seem eerily familiar to those voiced by novice writers in a freshman writing course. Mangiavellano contends that students eagerly...

..., especially the teaching of argument, postcritique has made little entry into discourses of undergraduate instruction. Attending to the New Sincerity movement in American literature, film, and music after 1980, this essay examines how teaching texts that emphasize their own sincerity (and the difficulty...

... 1 : 143 -65. Salvatore, Mariolina. 1988 . “Toward a Hermeneutics of Difficulty.” In Audits of Meaning: A Festschrift in Honor of Ann E. Berthoff , ed. Louise Z. Smith, 80 -95. Portsmouth, N.H.: Boynton/Cook. ———. 1996 . “Conversations with Texts: Reading in the Teaching of Composition...

... Higher Education . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Probyn, Elspeth. 2004 . “Teaching Bodies: Affect in the Classroom.” Body and Society 10 : 21 -43. Salvatori, Mariolina Rizzi, and Patricia Donahue. 2005 . The Elements (and Pleasures) of Difficulty . New York: Longman...