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..., Number 1, © 2006 Duke University Press 25 Buying In, Selling Short: A Pedagogy against the Rhetoric of Online Paper Mills Kelly Ritter I don t cheat, but not because it is unacceptable. I don t cheat because I m picky about my work and would never use someone else s, especially if they didn t write...

...Gary Totten Edith Wharton's lack of recognition as a short story writer depends on several factors, including conflicting theories about short story form and technique, her relationship to literary and cultural history, and her use in literature classrooms. Her problematic relationship to the short...

...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...

...Linda K. Hughes This article addresses the teaching of Amy Levy's “Xantippe” (1880), a poem 279 lines long, in an upper-division survey of British literature from 1800 to the present focused on life stories. Though the poem is short enough to be read in a single sitting, it is also long enough...

...Florence S. Boos At 10,938 lines, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh would seem unsuited for the present-day classroom, with its focus on short, simple texts adapted for readers with little experience of long poems. Yet it teaches quite readily and, indeed, is often a student favorite...

... the same exercise twice, with artificially imposed difficulties the second time, might help them learn concrete steps for working through mounting irritation. In short, frustration and anxiety are not things that emerge from time to time—they are ever-present. The author argues that it is the job...

...Matthew Elliott This article examines Hisaye Yamamoto’s short story “Wilshire Bus” in light of its pedagogical effectiveness in the contemporary cultural moment. The author argues that “Wilshire Bus,” published in 1950, resonates with many students today by evoking issues such as bullying, racist...

... on an experiment in using a writing course to teach critical thinking skills and vice versa, with special emphasis on helping students to get beyond their aversion to and distrust of argument. The course assigned short argument analyses, an exercise in literary interpretation, and a research paper in for students...

... Morrison's short story, “Recitatif,” which ingeniously leads readers to examine their own racial preconceptions. Then, novels ( Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, Sent for You Yesterday by John Wideman, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, and Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen) are paired...

...Elizabeth Kalbfleisch This article explores the emphasis on reading instruction in the classical pedagogical technique of imitatio . It briefly surveys scholarship in literary and composition studies to trace a short history of this pedagogy before turning to contemporary descriptions of reading...

...Theresa Tinkle Abstract This opinion piece advocates for literature courses that examine the United States’ mental health crisis from the perspective of neurodiverse writers. This is not a short‐term solution to the crisis, but over time courses can have a powerful impact on students’ attitudes...

... to both the unique aspects of African literature and the common elements of the human experience that exist across time periods and geography. The short story “Egoli” by Zimbabwean author T. L. Huchu is an example of Africanfuturism that incorporates medieval African history, literature, culture, language...

...Janet C. Myers Abstract This article describes a literature assignment that imposes short, defined limits on student writing to improve two thorny processes: writing and grading. For students, these limits improve student learning by streamlining the invention process and providing iterative...

... that ranged in length and subject matter from the tomic Fall of Thebes to short lyrics of Marian devotion. Once thought a dull fifteenth-­century inheritor of Chaucer, he now fascinates for his imbrications in Lancastrian politics and as a figure of poetic transition. His poetry, once deemed...

... Dangerously as CCCC Chair (blog) , 21 December , Joycelockecarter.com/CCCC/solstice/ . Connors Robert J. 1996 . “ The Abolition Debate in Composition: A Short History .” In Composition in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis and Change , edited by Bloom Lynn Z. Daiker Donald A. White...

... the product, designing the venue to suit the viewing experience, arranging the program (typically a variety of short films) in a particular order, and accompanying the silent images with sound (anything from live music to sound effects to actors standing behind the screen). At times, the exhibitor...

... in undergraduate classes and in the Norton and Longman anthologies. However, as Joanna Russ (1983) has remarked, too often women writers are token figures in major anthologies, represented by excerpts or short lyrics rather than lengthy pieces. As teachers, we still struggle to justify the substantial...

... the chance to read a wide array of off-­the-­grid literary and nonliterary texts from antiquity and throughout the Middle Ages. Most of the documents are short excerpts from longer texts, many less than a page and few longer than three or four pages. The brevity allows for a larger number (usually more...

... . New York: Pantheon. Crutcher, Chris. 1991 . Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories . New York: Greenwillow. Dewey, John. 1997 . Experience and Education . New York: Touchstone. Eco, Umberto. 1990 . The Limits of Interpretation . Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Garden, Nancy. 1982...

.... Crutcher, Chris. 1991 . Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories . New York: Greenwillow. Dewey, John. 1997 . Experience and Education . New York: Touchstone. Eco, Umberto. 1990 . The Limits of Interpretation . Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Garden, Nancy. 1982 . Annie on My Mind . New...