... , ed. Andrew McNeillie, 137 -49. New York: Harcourt. ———. 1984 [1925]. The Common Reader , ed. Andrew McNeillie. San Diego:Harcourt. “Written by Water.” 2002 . Unpublished CD-ROM. Boise, ID. Variations on a Theme of Putting Nonfiction in Its Place Robert L. Root Jr. Editor s Note: Robert...

...Ashlie K. Sponenberg This article examines the applicability of controversial course themes in the first-year writing classroom. It narrates examples of student resistance to readings and discussions that led to intellectual and personal discomfort, and then assesses the benefits (improved critical...

...Michal Horton Theme courses are a common practice despite their limited presence in composition scholarship, which contributes to a fractured understanding of the theme course’s purpose and place in the discipline. This article offers an aggregate picture of theme (or topic) based courses based...

...James Heiman Teaching nontraditional themes in first-year writing courses sometimes confuses students and frustrates instructors. This article shows how using a transformative, critical-thinking pedagogy challenges the content and purpose of “English” courses—making such themes more accessible...

... of teaching a first-year writing course on the theme of masculinity. The gender imbalance of this class, with a majority of male students, combined with the course theme, contributed to an environment that raised unanticipated questions, which prompted the reconsideration of the intersections of critical...

... works to better understand the major themes, issues, struggles, and successes of the field. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Works Cited Balzhiser Deborah , and Susan H. McLeod. 2010 . “ The Undergraduate Writing Major: What Is It? What Should It Be? ” College Composition...

..., like the extremely sparse exchanges between Jig and her lover, must exercise extreme caution, however, in committing no more words than must essentially be committed. Concealing what no longer needed concealment, or was soon to be found too big for concealment anyway, is a worrisome theme here whose...

...” is to observe their relationship with a theme that Dante explores throughout his career: loss. The loss of Beatrice in the Vita Nuova becomes the loss of Florence in Dante's works written in exile. It then becomes the spiritual desolation explored among those in the Inferno who have lost “the good...

...Daniel P. Richards; Louise Wetherbee Phelps This introduction frames this special issue on ideological transparency by contextualizing the original call for papers within our sociopolitical moment and outlining how various themes emerged — or did not — from the articles included. The editors posit...

...Doug Hesse A review of general education at the author’s university led to an effort to include project- and theme-based interdisciplinary courses that addressed the “public good,” but many faculty resisted what they perceived as threats to purely disciplinary knowledge. When knowledge is under...

...Nathan Shepley Abstract This article uses narrative inquiry to examine one instructor's experiences teaching two first-year writing classes, each one marked by different pedagogical choices. Themed with the topic of place and foregrounding the recurring example of Appalachia, the classes were...

... to pose the pedagogical challenges common to teaching all long poems: asking students to read both closely and at length, to discern unifying tropes or themes across manifold details or narrative episodes, to engage in sufficient discussion commensurate with the long poem's complexity, and to discover...

... composition classrooms, instructors create theme-­based cur- ricula that emphasize analytical, argumentative, and research-­based writ- ing instruction. During Tulane’s first post-­Katrina semesters, composition Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition...

..., instructors create theme-­based cur- ricula that emphasize analytical, argumentative, and research-­based writ- ing instruction. During Tulane’s first post-­Katrina semesters, composition Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture...

... possibilities for all writing classrooms. In our composition classrooms, instructors create theme-­based cur- ricula that emphasize analytical, argumentative, and research-­based writ- ing instruction. During Tulane’s first post-­Katrina semesters, composition Pedagogy: Critical...

..., several years after the storm, of how the courses we teach at Tulane represent possibilities for all writing classrooms. In our composition classrooms, instructors create theme-­based cur- ricula that emphasize analytical, argumentative, and research-­based writ- ing instruction. During...

.... What codifications are and how they function are not, how- ever, easily understood. In this essay I interpret them as pictures in words within which lie themes that change people s perceptions of life. In Freire s lit- eracy program the change is always directed toward an understanding...

...Glenn Michael Gordon How to Teach Gender to Students Who Didn t Know They Had One Glenn Michael Gordon In a 2017 Inside Higher Ed essay, Hallie Lieberman described how she got a group of straight male college freshmen to take her gender- and sexuality- themed composition class at the University...

... writing contexts. Institutional and Curricular Context According to the Michigan State University course catalog, “WRA 125 —  Writing: The Ethnic and Racial Experience” is a theme-based first-year writing course that focuses on “drafting, revising, and editing composi- tions derived from readings...

... of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in consolidating an essentialized idea of the nation through themes, characters, and settings that were recognizably pan-Indian. Following the independence of India in 1947, English became, almost by default, one of the official languages of education and administration...