... . 2005 . “ Fostering Critical Literacy: The Art of Assignment Design .” New Directions for Teaching and Learning 103 : 23 – 38 . Wolfe Joanna . 2003 . “ A Method for Teaching Invention in the Gateway Literature Class .” Pedagogy 3 : 399 – 425 . Literary Discipline in the Margins...

... in the Production of a Discipline Susan Bruce, Ken Jones, and Monica McLean The Production of University English: A Project and Its Background This essay describes the parameters, the methodology, and some of the ini- tial findings of a collaborative research project...

... Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers” (1980), James Kinneavy’s “Expressive Discourse” (1971), and Robert Tremmel’s “Striking a Balance — Seeking a Discipline” (2002). This section also includes excerpts from Mina Shaughnessy’s Errors and Expectations (1977) and Ken Macrorie’s...

... s literature. Initially I approached these as discrete and separate issues, the one a necessary form of service to my department, the other a welcome opportunity to engage in a scholarly exploration of the relationship between pedagogy and the discipline of children s literature. The projects...

... Press. MacDonald, Susan Peck. 1994 . Professional Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences . Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. Local Knowledges, Local Practices: Writing in the Disciplines at Cornell . Edited by Jonathan Monroe. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh...

.... Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Duke University Press 2007 Out of the Ivory Tower Endlessly Rocking: Collaborating across Disciplines and Professions to Promote Student Learning in the Digital Archive Megan A. Norcia Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking-bird’s...

...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...

... them engage directly with sources and ideas, rather than sliding into description or summary. Reminding them that this particular approach originates in the discipline of literary studies, I then have students themselves draw conclusions about what “analysis” looks like -- and what it does -- in other...

...Laura L. Behling Abstract Faculty and students in English and other humanities disciplines engage in undergraduate research and scholarship. Administrative support ensures institutional practices, policies such as those focused on tenure and promotion, and rewards are in place to encourage students...

... for implementing WAC initiatives in different disciplines. The entrepreneurial consulting model emphasizes the need to establish an ongoing presence within a discourse community, to continually “sell” writing and rhetoric to both faculty and students, and to strategically use rhetoric to promote rhetoric. © 2009...

...Shady Cosgrove While disciplines such as law, journalism and medicine have ethics classes embedded into their degree structures, fiction writing has escaped this administrative scrutiny. This paper argues that an `ethics of representation' should be raised within the prose fiction classroom...

...Zack Shaw Abstract Instructors of writing-intensive disciplines infrequently integrate cinematic media in composition curricula. Furthermore, when instructors use films in composition courses, they often treat films merely as supplemental texts tangentially relevant to course topics and prioritize...

... of a particular institution. It suggests that if the current traditional conception of the discipline has rendered a great deal of the work of the profession invisible, then it would make sense to talk more about what our colleagues are actually doing outside the doctorate-granting institution. The article...

...Robert Scholes Ten years ago in The Rise and Fall of English , I argued that the fall of English studies might be fortunate if the field could be reconstituted as a discipline. That no longer seems possible to me. In this article, I therefore argue for a shift from a field organized around...

...Joseph Harris David Bartholomae warns against a growing reliance on MAs as instructors in English departments. I suggest in response that one way to reconnect research and teaching is to invite PhDs from other disciplines to join us in teaching academic writing. © 2010 by Duke University Press...

... studies has been slow to create new media scholarship and train future teachers to understand multiple media despite challenges from within and outside of the discipline to do so. Samples of new media scholarship are offered to demonstrate the plurality of scholarship and teaching practices possible...

... the genre to undergraduates in all disciplines, and to demonstrate this tenet in my own experience, I give examples of how I taught formal and thematic elements through their use in contemporary media as well as several assignments that demonstrate the symbiotic relationship between staged theatre and its...

...Bev Hogue In a 2002 article in College English , Peter Elbow argued that writing pedagogy would benefit by “[m]ore honoring of style, playfulness, fun, pleasure, humor” (543). Although Elbow was referring specifically to the need for cross-fertilization between the disciplines of literature...

... audiences. Engaging nonspecialists in practices of the humanities offers one way of “going public.” The forms of publicly engaged teaching, learning, scholarship, and collaboration can stretch as far as teachers' and scholars' imaginations and are applicable to social sciences and other disciplines as well...

... and Danteinspired poetry, whether the students’ own or authored by others. Joining a tradition of “conversations with Dante” that began, in English literature, with Chaucer, students develop creative abilities and attitudes through reflection upon and disciplined participation in the creative process. Course...