... . Reflection in the Writing Classroom . Logan: Utah State University Press. 527 F r o m t h e C l a s s r o o m On Teaching Critical Arguments: A Matrix of Understanding James Phelan Today s undergraduate literature courses are noticeably different from those of even ten years ago in their frequent use...

...Karen L. Kopelson The author reconsiders and revises her advocacy of the pedagogical performance of neutrality and argues that performing or otherwise rehabilitating notions of “objectivity” as we teach argument may be particularly useful and urgent in the Trump era. Rhetoric on the Edge of Cunning...

... 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...

..., especially the teaching of argument, postcritique has made little entry into discourses of undergraduate instruction. Attending to the New Sincerity movement in American literature, film, and music after 1980, this essay examines how teaching texts that emphasize their own sincerity (and the difficulty...

... 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...

... for teaching faculty may “enact an argument about the separation of teaching and research” that should be resisted, and healthy models of the academic workplace should make sure that teaching and research remain meaningfully responsive to one another. Recent developments in higher education, which promise...

... with the reading event as integral parts of the reading without expecting meaning to be inherent to texts and simply in need of interpretation, which is often a focus in teaching. Central to this framework are the notion of a poem as an object and Sara Ahmed's argument in The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2004...

... concludes that representing more fully what we do will require us to move beyond general claims for teaching as a form of scholarship and away from decontextualized arguments about the value of teaching. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Commentary...

... for teaching revision, it enacts an underlying argument that pedagogy is metaphor. In doing so, it offers four practical strategies for teaching students to revise. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Works Cited Althusser Louis . 1970 . “ Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses...

...Kate Levin This article is the third in a series that represents the author's multiple phases of teaching Eliza Haywood's eighteenth-century story “Fantomina” in the first-year English classroom at a women's college. The article characterizes the most recent phase as epitomized by the problem...

... to support their position on a topic, and qualify the scope of their claims. So while we certainly talk about sports in my class, we also think about what the rhetoric surrounding sports can teach us about argument and even our own language use. Because sports writers are well known...

...Malini Johar Schueller Abstract This article explores theories and methodologies for an activist teaching and reading of Palestinian literature, including Susan Abulhawa's novel Mornings in Jenin and Remi Kanazi's poetry. Based on student responses — empathy with individual Palestinian characters...

... the Margins; Honoring Creative Nonfiction; Understanding Class, Culture, Gender, and Race; Mentoring Preservice Teachers; Incorporating Technology; Constructing Academic Arguments; Teaching Non-English Majors; Highlighting Effective Methods; and Showcasing Subdisciplines...

...-witnessing to distinguish inner experience from eyewitness testimony. Flesh-witnesses speak of combat as a transformative and indescribable experience comparable to the sublime. This view is often attributed to militarists, but Harari shows that it also motivates pacifists. Even antiwar arguments like those...

... course practitioners can use for developing, implementing, and evaluating their teaching methods. The underlying argument is that theme courses can support learning about writing, so long as theme selection and implementation work in purposeful support of the course’s learning about writing goals...

...Brice Particelli Through a classroom moment in a graduate course in the teaching of writing, Particelli explores ways in which pointed inquiry into genre—satire, in this case—allows for a lesson design that encourages critical exploration of culture without burdening students with essentialist...

... on teaching argument. Benton critiques teaching argument for argument s sake, while Lindquist details ways that argument itself is a site of class struggle. Both urge a peda- gogy of argument grounded not in winning and losing but in the personal cir- cumstances of the hidden intellectuals Graff is so...

..., of course, that students harbor intellectual resources street smarts that go untapped by formal schooling (22) and that therein lies the prob- lem. It s an argument that needs to be reestablished even more often than The 261 Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition...

... years, focus on social justice in many first- year writing programs followed hooks s lead in teaching argument as an urgent political and pedagogical task, preparing students to identify and question sites of ide- ology and to account for their own and others identities and interests. Con- currently...

... here to surprise them, unless it is the seriousness with which Graff takes their work. Literary scholars will fi nd a guide to important scholarship that may be unfamiliar to them but that can greatly improve their own teach- ing and curriculum design. Indeed, an important part of Graff s argument...