...Lorraine Clark Readers of E. D. Hirsch's work on cultural literacy may be unaware that it is informed by the same theory of interpretation proposed by his much earlier book in literary studies, Validity in Interpretation . Understanding how the concept of genre functions in both projects clarifies...

...Kevin Brooks © 2002 Duke University Press 2002 Aarseth, Espen J. 1994 . “Nonlinearity and Literary Theory.” In Hyper/Text/Theory , ed. George P. Landow, 51 -86. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Bauman, Marcy Lassota. 1999 . “The Evolution of Internet Genres.” Computers...

...Tison Pugh Troilus and Criseyde is a work of magnificent scope and intimidating breadth. A strategy that I have found effective for addressing the potentially overwhelming pedagogical task of teaching this masterpiece is to ask students to analyze the relationships between genre and character...

...Janine Morris While reading research often collapses or creates a binary between print and digital reading, this article argues that this approach ignores the overlap between the reading strategies we use when reading both print and digital texts. Using a genre-based approach to digital reading...

..., and other courses: analyzing and writing for explicit editorial guidelines (“standards” in information science, “house style” in editorial practice); understanding, conforming to, and even negotiating conventions of genres and subgenres; collaborating online; writing for an audience that not only is real...

...Tanya K. Rodrigue This article informs educators about the importance and challenges of teaching digital reading practices. In positioning reading as a design-oriented activity and readers as text designers, instructors can teach genre awareness as a way to help students strongly engage...

...Alisa Russell This article proposes that writing instructors can present genre innovation as a strategy for asserting class (and other) identities within academic discourses. Drawing on sample student innovations of integrating emotions, expanding modes, and reconstructing audiences...

... that “reading” the film in terms of gender and genre can not only help students apply modes of textual analysis to narratives in other media but also alert them to the location of such narratives within larger discursive frameworks of defining national identities. Raazi presents a critical and ideological...

... : 67 -84. Devitt, Amy, Mary Jo Reiff, and Anis Bawarshi. 2003 . Scenes of Writing: Strategies for Composing with Genres . New York: Pearson. Dews, C. L. Barney, and Carolyn Leste Law, eds. 1995 . This Fine Place So Far from Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class . Philadelphia...

...Eric R. Carlson The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature . By Magennis Hugh . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Reviews Interlocking Genres: A New Approach...

...Brice Particelli Through a classroom moment in a graduate course in the teaching of writing, Particelli explores ways in which pointed inquiry into genre—satire, in this case—allows for a lesson design that encourages critical exploration of culture without burdening students with essentialist...

... in shock, leaving her daughter to be taken in by the family of a villager who turns out to be Ellen's foster brother. Pairing Bowles's poem with Opie's novel allows students to explore the roles of genre (and generic conventions) in the presentation of similar tales and to examine both the technical...

... for social justice in their new community. Students wrote in multiple genres as they attended the meetings and events of different groups involved with environmentalism, food justice, adjunct rights, and more. As students connected their social-change work to the classroom, they learned more about different...

... by allowing the study of a common subject among students hoping to enter a number of different professions after college. Our design leans heavily on concrete knowledge domains—genre knowledge, social knowledge, procedural knowledge—and their application to specific disciplinary or professional contexts...

... a traditional print genre, the book review, in digital space. © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Alexander, Jonathan. 2002 . “Digital Spins: The Pedagogy and Politics of Student-Centered E-zines.” Computers and Composition 19.4 : 387 –410. Balsamo, Anne. 2000 . “The Virtual Body...

...Carolyn Kraus In assigning her university memoir-writing class to locate documents of significance to their lives as a starting point for composing personal essays, this teacher compelled her students to search outside themselves for material—in effect, to undertake research in a genre that many...

... complex view of language choices, audience identification, genres, and persuasion. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Ahmed, Sara. 2004 . The Cultural Politics of Emotion . New York: Routledge. Bitzer, Lloyd. 1968 . “The Rhetorical Situation.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 1 : 1 – 14...

... 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...

...Jennifer J. Smith This article argues that the short-story cycle should be central to teaching American literature, because the genre crystallizes major tensions of American literary history: marginality and inclusion, the individual and the community, and the formation of a national literature...

... is a teaching opportunity to address issues of genre, gender, and canonicity. In a larger sense, the articles argue for the potential of pedagogical practice to reconstitute the canon. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 pedagogical approaches long poems canon construction gender genre Works...