...Gillian Steinberg The “Influence” model of introductory literature class focuses on a single central text, the works that influenced its composition, and works that developed from it, encouraging students to make connections among texts. Such a course model repositions power in the classroom...

...Janelle Adsit; Laura Wilder The article reports on a nationwide survey- and interview-based study of creative writing instructors designed to identify the extent to which the field of rhetorics and composition and key aspects of rhetorical theory have influenced the teaching of creative writing...

...Amanda Wray This article explores the struggle to transport an ethos of white antiracism across different racial climates within two university contexts. The author analyzes the influence that students' home rhetorics of racism and their conceptualizations about “progressive” white identity have...

...Joyce Olewski Inman This article begins with the suggestion that institutions of higher education often deem the basic writing classroom a closeted space and that this framing of the classroom influences how basic writers experience their classrooms and writing experiences. The author explores...

... in the classroom, including periodicity, the recovery of women’s writing, affect, narratives of influence, lyricism, and such topics as globalism, through five innovative approaches to her work. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Letitia Elizabeth Landon women’s writing Romanticism Victorian...

...Gena E. Chandler; Jennifer Sano-Franchini While the term neoliberalism is commonly used to explain libertarian and conservative economic perspectives, its rapidly expanding contexts influence every aspect of our cultural environment, even the contexts of higher education. This article explores how...

...Stephanie Boone Mosher This article explores how prior experiences influence instructors’ responses to African American English–based writing. The author examines why her reaction to a student essay differed from several colleagues’; she suggests that current standards for college writing leave...

... positionalities influence the construction and interpretation of text, and how sociocultural ideologies are represented and disseminated through seemingly innocuous or objective reporting. Broadly, this article offers strategies for teaching critical reading to help teachers of writing improve students...

...Michael Pennell This essay explores the potential for wikis in English classrooms and writing pedagogy through discussion of a class project involving Wikitravel. Topics include the influence that wikis have on collaboration, an example of networked writing, and the role of writing with technology...

...Angela J. Zito Abstract This article introduces a grounded theory of assessment in literary studies. Analysis of instructor interviews elucidates the cultural and dispositional influences that shape some instructors’ conscious decision not to teach or assess affective learning outcomes like empathy...

..., in a seemingly unconscious manner, allusions, influence, and semiotic and/or cognitive leaps whose effect is realized through revision and craftsmanship. Bringing this element into the literature class- room provides balance to traditional criticism and gives insights to students who often wonder if writers...

..., in a seemingly unconscious manner, allusions, influence, and semiotic and/or cognitive leaps whose effect is realized through revision and craftsmanship. Bringing this element into the literature class- room provides balance to traditional criticism and gives insights to students who often wonder if writers...

... of cul- tivated skills that admit, in a seemingly unconscious manner, allusions, influence, and semiotic and/or cognitive leaps whose effect is realized through revision and craftsmanship. Bringing this element into the literature class- room provides balance to traditional criticism and gives insights...

... of Inklings scholarship, the book’s most lasting value may yet prove to be to those of us who teach writing. The book is organized very clearly to serve the needs of its two main audiences, with the first two chapters being devoted to research about the Inklings and the influence the members had...

... important light on how teacher attitudes toward technology can influence students. She says, “Only if your teacher thought you were responsible and deserved to play with . . . computer[s] could you use them. . . . They were fun” (41). For both women, work on computers at school was made into a game...

... 157 overview of major projects, and class schedule to encourage other instructors to adapt similar designs. By providing an example of a particular WAW-influenced curriculum, this course design, as it was designed and taught at Ohio University, furthers the discussion started by Read...

... He was a powerful influence on the early life of the journal, and we want to honor him for that. We also want to honor him in his role as teacher, a role for which he was perhaps less famous than as scholar. We thought a dedicated issue of the journal, guest edited by James Phelan...

... University Press . An in-depth look at the influence of poetry upon Michelangelo, Vasari, and Condivi and their focus upon biography and autobiography related to artistic creativity . Hulce Clark . 1990 . The Rule of Art: Literature and Painting in the Renaissance . Chicago : University...

... in which Booth influenced his students, and the diversity of his former students’ per- spectives is at least as important to our understanding of Booth’s achievement as any summary of its coherence. Indeed, it is not possible to do justice in a few sentences to the distinctive emphases and interests...

... production in the British Isles, and less appropriate for the Celtic languages, which kept on, even though their influence on the English mainstream was reduced in the postmedieval period to almost nothing. The eighth edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Greenblatt et al...