...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...

... Composing in First-­Year Composition Michael Pennell In fall 2009, many colleges and universities found themselves on the front lines of the battle against the H1N1 virus (more commonly known as swine flu). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Department...

...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...

...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...

...Clancy Ratliff This article presents a new examination of the history of the first-year composition requirement using the “adaptive cycle” idea about the resilience of systems. The author argues that we may be experiencing the collapse of required FYC and should look to other possible futures...

...Joshua Daniel-Wariya; Lynn C. Lewis This article describes the rationale, development, and implementation of a digital archival curriculum within the first-year composition program at Oklahoma State University. Such a curriculum helps students engage genuine inquiry to discover arguments rather...

...Stephanie White Through classroom observations and semi-structured, text-based interviews, this study analyzes the impact of a service-learning first-year composition course on students’ rhetorical knowledge. Students’ own words are used to describe their transformative experiences related...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Kara K. Larson Abstract This article explores the impact of labor‐based grading contracts on student attitudes and perceptions within multilingual First‐Year Composition (FYC) sections at an R1 university. Data collected qualitatively and quantitatively examined correlations between labor‐based...

...Irwin Weiser Abstract This article discusses how the concept of undergraduate research has evolved from an artificial academic exercise, typically introduced in first‐year composition courses, to an authentic activity that engages students in primary research. Through these authentic experiences...

...Kim Brian Lovejoy; Steve Fox; Scott Weeden Drawing on research in systems theory and their own programmatic efforts to recognize, value, and integrate language differences in first-year composition, the authors argue for a multilevel approach for sustainable and systemic change to occur. Multilevel...

...Jerry Stinnett In many ways, the transformative character of developing critical consciousness reflects the dynamics of acquiring threshold concepts. Drawing from research into threshold concept acquisition, the author argues that critical first-year composition instruction can more effectively...

... approaches to two pedagogical ecologies: first-year composition and an upper-level feminist rhetorics course. pedagogy rhetoric kairos temporality feminism Works Cited Ahmed Sara . 2017 . Living a Feminist Life . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Amador José A. Miles...

...Lindsey Row-Heyveld This article explores the advantages of pairing disability studies with the study of rhetoric/composition in the first-year seminar classroom. Examining the ways in which both disability studies and rhetoric interrogate issues of construction, it argues that the two fields...

... that a first-year composition class espouses — audience, context, and purpose, to start — are the very things that service members must consider when accomplishing their missions. In fact, I would go so far as to suggest that the Army triumvirate of “tasks, conditions, standards” is just another way...

...Rob Faunce The renewed interest in personal essays in composition complicates the contested, tricky personal identity negotiations for students and faculty in first-year writing, particularly in manifestations and representations of the body in both the classroom and writing spaces...