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...-year students enter my class knowing that successful school writing is defi ned by the fi ve-paragraph essay with a three-pronged descriptive thesis; body paragraphs, each of which addresses one of the three parts of the thesis (and which can often be shuffl ed like cards because there is no real...

.... Nelson, Cary, and Stephen Watt. 2004 . Office Hours: Activism and Change in the Academy . New York: Routledge. R ev iews Finally, a Graduate Adviser for the Real (Academic) World Graduate Study for the Twenty-First Century: How to Build...

... collaboratively, developing rapport with students, and conducting student-centered, one-to-one writing conferences. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Almasy, Rudolf, and David England. 1979 . “Future Teachers as Real Teachers: English Education Students in the Writing Laboratory.” English Education...

... approach to teaching undergraduate research also revealed that students’ perceptions of what counts as “real” research are more complex than previous studies have indicated. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 undergraduate research writing studies ethnography research ethics writing...

...Amy E. Robillard This article considers the role of real-world writing pedagogy in the persistence of the real world/academy binary that fuels contemporary trigger warning debates, arguing instead for attention to the actual rhetorical constraints of the classrooms we all work in regularly. ©...

...Adrian Curtin In teaching a course on death in modern theater to fifteen undergraduates, I had to engage with a real-life death “drama” (the death of a peer of my students) that impinged on my class, presenting me with an uncomfortable pedagogical conundrum. I had to re-think my objectives...

...Ira James Allen This essay explores intersections between reading and privilege and moves out from a survey of faculty reading practices to consider what is at stake in distinguishing between “real” and “instrumental” reading. Allen argues that, as privileged subjects, teachers can best help...

... contexts, and student reading diaries listing what students found challenging and what they learned. The article thus incorporates real-time student responses, as well as discussion of teaching strategies. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Amy Levy “Xantippe” British literature survey student...

..., 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...

... to this examination, the essay proposes that the Boyer Report attempted to alter teaching by arguing that teachers and the systems that support them needed to change, an argument that failed to convince college faculty to change. The article concludes with the proposal that the real exigence facing college faculty...

..., the widespread use of the Internet and related technologies that promote passivity, and a political administration that releases fake news, denounces real news as fake, and provides what it calls “alternative facts.” Considering these elements independently, as well as the potentially calamitous consequences...

...Ricia Anne Chansky Drafted in the wake of Hurricane María in Puerto Rico, this article explores the potential benefits of students writing unrevised, real-time auto/biographical narratives as an element of disaster pedagogy. The lesson of the ugly auto/biography builds on an impromptu post-9/11...

..., discuss, and engage with contemporary and real‐world problems with compassion, complexity, and nuance. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 digital news critical reading reading the news social media fake news In one of my first-year writing seminars at Cornell, the New Yorker...

...Joanna H. Drell This article examines how Dante used history and suggests approaches to incorporate his texts into undergraduate history teaching. Examples of successful assignments are offered that encourage students to compare Dante’s historical figures in a work like the Commedia with “real...

...Sean Murray Margaret Atwood’s recent dystopian fiction depicts a troubled food system that calls into question our own patterns of production and consumption. These matters of food politics provide fertile ground for a pedagogy that is both critical and grounded in real-world pragmatics. © 2014...

... students real experience with assessment but also to make them aware of faculty responsibilities beyond the classroom. These students were interviewed twice during the course and reported that they felt that learning and applying assessment research allowed them to develop practical professional skills...

... of thirdspace provided by Edward Soja in his seminal work Thirdspace: Journeys through Los Angeles and Other Real and Imagined Place s and Fredric Jameson's definition of cognitive mapping found in Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism , this study offers examples of how literary cartography...

... with EBGCs, which were collected in the form of an end‐of‐semester memo assignment. Comprehensively, students find EBGC use to be a positive and worthwhile assessment experience. While there is a learning curve involved, students appreciate the real‐life approach to both labor and engagement on writing tasks...

...Dominic DelliCarpini Abstract This article explores the future(s) of undergraduate research in writing studies through representative words of the undergraduates themselves. It reveals their social justice motives, as well as their desire to undertake research that can have real impact. It also...

... research one of the five essential Rs of creative nonfiction (along with real life, reflection, reading, and ’riting). But what could be more remote from research than humor writing? Reading assignments introduced students to the variety and depth of factual material lying behind apparently...