...Danielle A. Cordaro Reviews Motivating Students to Write Some Empirical Answers (and Questions) Writing and Motivation. Studies in Writing, Volume 19. Edited by Suzanne Hidi and Pietro Boscolo. Oxford: Elsevier Press, 2007. Danielle...

...Deborah Vlock This essay explores strategies for teaching texts that are critical of an untempered pursuit of wealth to business students, although many of these students have chosen their course of study based on their internalization and privileging of capitalist discourse. Karl Marx's “Estranged...

...Matthew Little Little helps students see that the vitality of the first chapter of Thoreau's Walden inheres not in a suggestion that people live in the woods by subsistence farming and occasional wage labor, but rather in a challenge to readers to perform cost-benefit evaluations of their modes...

..., close reading has been curiously resistant to analysis. This lesson study aimed to determine where students encounter challenges in close reading. Contrary to dominant narratives in the discipline, the university students in this study were adept at formal analysis. They were challenged, on the other...

...Eva Sage Gordon Abstract This essay discusses the usefulness of empathetic, relational pedagogy while teaching at CUNY in the time of COVID‐19 and reflects on experiences with three students early in the author's career that led her to this pedagogical approach. A terminally ill student, a student...

..., and DeGenaro and MacDonald on institutional messaging). Elaine P. Maimon's afterword focuses mainly on reshaping PhD programs but makes this broader call to action: “New majority students often listen to demeaning and unhelpful internal voices that tell them they are not fit for college because they are too...

...Kevin Piper Abstract Research has shown that student silence poses one of greatest challenges in the teaching of race. This article reports on a small one-year study that examined the value of using anonymous student feedback to teach race in the context of Indigenous literatures. The author's...

...Jennifer Stewart Abstract This article offers a rationale and model for a reflective capstone course for English majors. Rooted in the SoTL concepts of active transfer and project‐based experiential learning, this course asks students to reflect on and analyze their undergraduate work while...

...Catherine Gabor Abstract This study addresses the paucity of literature on the impact of ungrading — contract grading, specifically — on international students at American colleges. Over the course of four semesters, 307 international and domestic students were surveyed (anonymously) about...

...Julie Lindquist This article examines the pervasive disciplinary commonplace that it's imperative to know students. Posing questions about what it means to know students, the essay recommends ways to acquire useful knowledge about students—typically a long-term process—under conditions...

... Introducing Students to College Writing Moving beyond Humanities-­Centered Practices The Transition to College Writing. 2nd ed. By Keith Hjortshoj. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2009. Cary Moskovitz First-­year writing (FYW) courses can play a pivotal role in helping students move from...

...Gina Hunter College students often use the campus as a venue for their course-based research activities. More often than not, however, the university is simply a locus of research, not a subject of student inquiry. In this article, I consider what can be gained when students “study up...

...James P. Purdy; Joyce R. Walker This article argues that prevailing approaches to research instruction in introductory composition courses, as represented in print and digital instructional materials, reflect outdated theoretical views and may damage students’ researcher identity. Teaching research...

... that asks students to analyze anthology apparatus texts and ultimately create their own, challenging students to consider the implications of constructing an American canon as well as the rhetorical challenge of defining and justifying it. The final part of the article includes example assignments, as well...

...Myra J. Seaman The author discusses a Middle English literature course she centered on the array of noncanonical texts in one fifteenth-century manuscript, Ashmole 61. In reading only noncanonical texts, students acquired a broader understanding and experience of what Middle English literature...

... . From the Classroom Introduction Meeting Students Where They Are Ashlie K. Sponenberg After Tulane University reopened its doors to students and faculty in post-­ Katrina spring 2006, one of the first things administrators needed to do was reconstruct its freshman writing program...

...Richard C. Raymond Drawing on the author’s experience at the University of Pristina in Kosovo, the article narrates writing-to-learn strategies designed to help students to navigate a thematic approach to twentieth-century American poetry. The piece also situates this narration within the ongoing...

..., Graduate Students, Graduate Teaching Leonard Cassuto Is graduate school “broken”? I ask this advisedly, because the idea of broken institutions has become a tired cliché. Even so, the question conceals decep- tive complications. To start with, you can only declare something broken if you know...

...Lisa Schreibersdorf Survey responses suggest that students in introductory literature classes perceive a mismatch between what they believe is important to do in assignments and what they learn from comments on their papers. Survey questions focused on the relative importance of key concepts...

..., the substance, wit, and interest of these essays justifi ed a change in format for this issue. Breaking into the Conversation: How Students Can Acquire Authority for Their Writing Mark Gaipa What is an author s authority, and where does it come from? Expertise, an air of confi dence, reliability...