...Anne-Marie Womack Strong writers often implicitly know how to create strong titles by managing audience expectations to draw interest and describe information. This article makes these internalized strategies explicit for all writers. The list of eighteen forms and examples provides students...

... foci as represented in its split title: Local Histories , or microhistories of institutions, curricula, and figures; and Reading the Archives of Composition , an extended look at several hitherto unexamined archival sources and their associated projects. The editors identify three central purposes...

...James J. Brown, Jr.; Andrew Engel; Whitney Hardin; Donora Hillard; Jason Kahler; Michael McGinnis; Derek Risse; Conor Shaw-Draves This article describes a graduate seminar titled “Interfaces and Infrastructures” that took place at Wayne State University. The course engaged with new media...

...Bev Hogue Why would an English professor enroll in an upper-level biology class? This article describes an experiment in interdisciplinarity: an English professor takes a class titled Scientific Imaging in order to enhance her teaching of nature writing. The author outlines thirteen specific...

...Allison P. Hobgood This special issue of Pedagogy , titled “Caring From, Caring Through: Pedagogical Responses to Disability” explores the complex dynamics of disability, pedagogy, and care work and thus augments important scholarship on the personal experiences of disabled teachers, on how mental...

... multimedia formats. Poster sessions also promote alternative assessment strategies such as peer and self-assessment. We report here on the ways that we have used this assignment format in our basic linguistics class, titled “The Nature of Language.” We conclude with tips on incorporating poster assignments...

... of Erich Maria Remarque are based on the authority of the flesh-witness. To test Harari's claims, I invited ROTC officers to speak to students enrolled in a course titled British Literature: The Twentieth Century about their military experience. The juxtaposition of Harari's research and the officers...

... of the mechanisms of comedy. In this article the author describes a new first-year, general-education course students titled Laughing Matters: Comedy and Satire, which she created because she believes such a topic is truly interdisciplinary, asking students to come to a sophisticated understanding...

...Kenneth Lota This article uses a contemporary literature class titled Alternatives to Realism that the author taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as the basis to argue for the special value of experimental, speculative, and otherwise antirealistic literature for introductory...

... titled Shakespeare: Context and Theory, this article articulates the pedagogical value of students’ experiences of representation in live theater performances of Shakespeare. The author argues for both the ethical imperative of introducing students to radical, inclusively cast productions...

..., greater accessibility to scholarly materials, more research opportunities for and fewer burdens on instructors, and more frequent occasions for scholars at all levels to participate in knowledge making. Examining a course titled Writing About Public Problems, this article argues that undergraduates...

...Ann M. Fox; David R. Wessner This article discusses a collaborative course at Davidson College titled Representations of HIV/AIDS. With students, the authors look at the over thirty-year-old history of HIV/AIDS and the interwoven scientific and artistic responses to it. Not simply analyzing...

.... Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. doi 10.1215/15314200-2400539 Lucksinger    Ecopedagogy   369 A Rhetoric of Titles Eighteen Forms for Student Writers Anne-­Marie...

..., and Values. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. doi 10.1215/15314200-2400539 Lucksinger    Ecopedagogy   369 A Rhetoric of Titles Eighteen Forms for Student Writers Anne-­Marie Womack A work’s title immediately shapes an audience’s...

...- cerned about the survival of valuable books in the British Museum, founded University Microfilms International to preserve these artifacts on microfilm. Early English Books was the result: a microfilm edition of the thousands of printed works listed in the Short Title Catalogue, a remarkable...

..., will be published by the University of North Carolina Press. John C. Bean is a professor of English at Seattle University, where he holds the title “consulting professor of writing and assessment.” He is the author of Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning...

... Careless Body Out of the Careful Dusk (2006), won the Iowa Poetry Prize. As this title suggests, his poetry is both sensitive and wieldy — its sympathies experimental, yet grounded in sentence-­making, the dream-­sounds of sense. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature...

... has published articles on Chaucer, Gower, medieval drama, and law and literature. She is currently complet- ing a monograph titled “Justice and Civic Identity in Late Middle English Literature.” Matthieu Boyd is assistant professor in the Department of Literature, Lan- guage, Writing...

... problems for both scholars and students. First, Hill titles the poem In Memoriam A.H.H. in the volume’s table of contents and also on the first page of the text, under which appears in Latin “OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII” (“He died 1833 followed by the prologue. In the first edition, however, the title...

... York: Routledge Falmer, 2005. Merton Lee Perhaps the level of ease and enjoyment with which a reader is likely to move through Elizabeth Ellsworth’s book Places of Learning: Media, Architecture, Pedagogy depends on the extent to which the title itself makes sense. On one hand...