... different from those of the expository prose students learn to write in composition classes. Clarity, George Orwell, and the Pedagogy of Prose Style; or, How Not to Teach “Shooting an Elephant” Nils Clausson [Style] is something for use, and not to look at. — Henry David Thoreau, “Thomas...

...Catherine Gubernatis Dannen This article argues that popular sports media (such as websites, TV shows, and tweets) can be used in the freshman composition classroom to introduce students to academic argument and to encourage them to reimagine their own writing styles. Because sportswriters...

...Rebecca Brittenham; Erin McLaughlin; Connie Snyder Mick This project describes three pedagogical practices that use storytelling to engage students in exploring and inventing their shared community. Through service-learning stories of community members, self-analyses, stories of work, and TED-style...

...Danielle Barrios-O’Neill In recent decades, Belfast writer Ciarán Carson has emerged as one of the most inventive of contemporary literary voices, in part for his unique style of textualizing space. Driven in some ways by the very specific technological challenges of the conflict zone of Troubles...

... prose style and student writing. Additionally, the novel’s characters admit to difficulties with composition, such as language usage and organization in letter writing, that seem eerily familiar to those voiced by novice writers in a freshman writing course. Mangiavellano contends that students eagerly...

... emphasize lecturing, content coverage, or scholarly production with a workshop-style focus on writing, teaching, and metacognition. Examples from several graduate classroom experiences are provided. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Graduate seminar pedagogy profession convention lecture...

... the importance of being flexible and open in modifying one's teaching style to accommodate the needs of the individual student and offer tips on doing so without bias or overcompensation. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 physical therapy pedagogy disability blindness curriculum modification...

... differences that surface between the two lovers. While Hemingway's lean style is understood for what infinite suggestions it evokes in English, students surprise themselves with meanings—pregnant possibilities that suggest themselves in Malayalam, and unbeknownst to English/monolingual readers. Translation...

... by professors whose teaching styles did not match his Marine Corps training, was more difficult than he anticipated, until he realized that his identity as a Marine could be a formidable force in achieving his degree. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 veteran military armed forces Marine Corps...

...Bev Hogue In a 2002 article in College English , Peter Elbow argued that writing pedagogy would benefit by “[m]ore honoring of style, playfulness, fun, pleasure, humor” (543). Although Elbow was referring specifically to the need for cross-fertilization between the disciplines of literature...

..., 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...

...Megan A. Norcia This article shows how digital archives can enrich the humanities classroom; I trace the collaborative creation of “I Remain”: A Digital Archive of Letters, Manuscripts, and Ephemera at Lehigh University, demonstrating how the archive engaged students' different learning styles...

...Gretchen L. Dietz The Centrality of Style . Edited by Duncan Mike and Vanguri Star Medzerian . Fort Collins, Colorado : WAC Clearinghouse/Parlor Press , 2013 . © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Work Cited Medzerian Star . 2010 . “ Style and the Pedagogy...

... Sponenberg    Introduction: Meeting Students Where They Are  543 lano makes a case for using Pride and Prejudice not only to teach skill-­based writing but also to help students recognize themselves as writers through the text. Catherine Gubernatis Dannen details the ways she teaches style using David...

... Sponenberg    Introduction: Meeting Students Where They Are  543 lano makes a case for using Pride and Prejudice not only to teach skill-­based writing but also to help students recognize themselves as writers through the text. Catherine Gubernatis Dannen details the ways she teaches style using David...

... but also to help students recognize themselves as writers through the text. Catherine Gubernatis Dannen details the ways she teaches style using David Foster Wallace’s article about tennis star Roger Federer. Finally, Ryan K. McBride addresses the way he incorporates service-­learning in his...

...- ments, the arrangement of material, and style, as well as some of the old techniques mentioned by Fleming, so that modern students will be able to apply them to their own writing. To a limited extent, this approach gives mod- ern students the opportunity to experience classical rhetoric...

... by the should-be-but-often-aren t-taught writing tools. With three main sections Style, Form, and Headwork (critical thinking and research) and a solid index, Adios is easy to navigate. New and newer, Adios promises and delivers an inspiring edition, a gift to any writer or teacher. Student writers often...

... not only updated examples and more of them but new, exciting material that combines previous techniques and forms. Repeatedly, readers will be startled by the should-be-but-often-aren t-taught writing tools. With three main sections Style, Form, and Headwork (critical thinking and research...