...Howell Chickering 263 Creative Reading: A First-Semester First-Year Course Howell Chickering There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Ralph Waldo Emerson...

... old, too poor, or too different. We must shift the emphasis from what's wrong with students to what's not right with our institutions” (318). Finally, upon closing the book, I found myself lingering over the definitional questions raised within its pages. As many of the essays demonstrate, first...

...Sarah Moon Abstract This article argues that the oral performance of personal monologues in first‐year composition courses allows students to identify meaningfully with one another across difference at a time when the American political climate too often forecloses such opportunities. The author...

...Vivian Kao Abstract Drawing on object-oriented approaches to rhetoric and the scholarship of museum education, the author describes her development of a first-year composition experience that puts observation at the center of first-year writing—observation of an art object and its context...

...Nancy Mack Abstract This article suggests pedagogical practices to help first-generation students gain effective problem-solving strategies for the future transfer of writing knowledge and skills. The retention of first-generation students depends on developing four positive dispositions...

...Jessica Nastal Abstract This article offers a theory of action model for grading in first‐year writing classes, as enacted at two public, suburban, Midwestern two‐year colleges. First, it analyzes labor‐based contract grading and specifications grading through this model, examining how...

...Michael Pennell This essay describes a project in a first-year writing course in which students created video Public Service Announcements. The project resulted from a university-sponsored contest to prevent the spread of the H1N1 virus on campus. Illustrating the process of creating such video...

... on Teaching Shakespeare You Don’t Know Jack Engaging the Twenty-­First-­Century Student with Shakespeare’s Plays Bruce Avery When it comes to teaching Shakespeare in public universities these days, a lot of professors don’t know Jack. To be fair, there is no reason why they should...

...: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century . Safety Harbor, FL : Touchstone . Mueller Alex Nixon Cheryl Srikanth Rajini . 2010 . “ Constructing the Innocence of the First Textual Encounter .” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge 8 : 1 – 16...

... Introduction Meeting Students Where They Are Ashlie K. Sponenberg After Tulane University reopened its doors to students and faculty in post-­ Katrina spring 2006, one of the first things administrators needed to do was reconstruct its freshman writing program. The history of this program has...

... of Teachers of English . Innovative Frameworks and Tested Lore for Teaching Creative Writing to Undergraduates in the Twenty-­First Century Kate Kostelnik Reflecting on creative writing scholarship since his editorship of Creative Writing in America: Theory and Pedagogy (1989),  Joseph...

... . Yancey Kathleen Blake . 2008 . “ President’s Commentary: Planning a Future Very Different from Our Past .” Council Chronicle 18.1 : 28 – 29 . Cluster on Graduate Education in English Studies Writing Teachers for Twenty-­First-­Century Writers A Gap in Graduate Education Kerri...

... of teaching a first-year writing course on the theme of masculinity. The gender imbalance of this class, with a majority of male students, combined with the course theme, contributed to an environment that raised unanticipated questions, which prompted the reconsideration of the intersections of critical...

...Ellen C. Carillo This article argues for the importance of teaching reading in first-year composition courses within a metacognitive framework called mindful reading . Crucial for developing more comprehensive literacy practices that students can transfer into other courses and contexts...

... Text in a Large First-Year Writing Program.” In (Re)Visioning Composition Textbooks: Conflicts of Culture, Ideology, and Pedagogy , ed. Xin Liu Gale and Frederic G. Gale, 249 -66. Albany: State University of New York Press. Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. 1994 . “Goodbye,Columbus? Notes on the Culture...

... 61 : 307 -27. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture Volume 6, Number 1, © 2006 Duke University Press 123 Exploring Ambiguity and Intention: Higher Learning for First-Year Readers and Writers Johanna Schmertz In How to Read a Page, I. A. Richards...

... 61 : 307 -27. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture Volume 6, Number 1, © 2006 Duke University Press 123 Exploring Ambiguity and Intention: Higher Learning for First-Year Readers and Writers Johanna Schmertz In How to Read a Page, I. A. Richards...

... : 16 -50. Reviews Cautionary Tales Ideals and Realities in Twenty-First-Century Higher Education Internationalizing Higher Education: Critical Explorations of Pedagogy and Policy. Edited by Peter Ninnes and Meeri Hellstén. Hong Kong...

...Barbara B. Duffelmeyer Critical Work in First-Year Composition: Computers, Pedagogy, and Research Barbara B. Duffelmeyer Constructing forms of agency . . . relies on individuals abilities to see culture as leaky by mobilizing the multiplicity they bring to any cultural production. . . . Rather...

... the Corporate University and Creating True Higher Learning . Boston : Beacon Press . Avoli-Miller Katy . 2013 . “ Young Adult Literature in the Twenty-First Century Classroom .” Library Media Connection 32 . 3 : 16 – 18 . Baxley Traci P. Boston Genyne Henry . 2014 . (In)Visible...