... pedagogy students, and its familiar language and useful templates make it the perfect text for beginning college writers because it helps them in two important ways. First, the book reframes students expectations for a freshman com- position class, and second, it guides students step by step through...

...Frankie Allmon © 2001 Duke University Press 2001 Linkin, Harriet Kramer. 2001 . “How It Is:Teaching Women's Poetry in British Romanticism Classes.” Pedagogy 1 : 91 -115. How It Was, Is, and Might Be: I ve Come a Long Way, Maybe Frankie Allmon Question 4: How do the poets we have...

... with the poem’s specific lines. The way I propose to do this is by asking students to identify voice shifts in the poem. It is certainly true that there are differing opinions about voice inThe Waste Land, but the point of the assignment is not to involve students in this debate (at least initially...

... . “Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Elizabeth's Aurora Leigh.” Brontë Society Transactions 17 : 126 – 32 . Reynolds Margaret , ed. 1995 . “Aurora Leigh”: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism . New York : Norton . “Let Me Count the Ways” Teaching the Many-Faceted­ Aurora...

...Tom Kerr © 2001 Duke University Press 2001 Ways of Reading: An Anthology for Writers . 5th ed. Ed. David Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999. Bartholomae, David. 1985 . “Inventing the University.” In When a Writer Can't Write: Studies...

...Richard C. Raymond Rhetoricizing English Studies: Students Ways of Reading Oleanna Richard C. Raymond It s not about sexual harassment. It s about power (Ryan 1996: 393). So says David Mamet in describing his Oleanna, a play that has stirred controversy in dramatic reviews, theaters...

... in introduction to literature courses, the author invites students to resist any quick way of accessing information about the poem. Instead, using Billy Collins's poem, “Introduction to Poetry,” the author helps students explore slower, maybe more contemplative and welcoming ways to listen to the language...

...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...

... collection (2009) further complicates and interrogates the ways queer bodies are represented and problematized in the classroom. This article explores our own experiences in first-year writing: as students within a mind/body binary exploring through the scaffolding of composition, and as faculty who...

... is that the way students raised in a culture saturated in electronic media learn is dramatically different than the way people learned a generation ago. That shift in learning is the exigence that requires a transformation of teaching. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Bitzer, Lloyd. 1968...

... with course content in more expansive ways and to play active roles in creating course content; as such, the wiki is a space where the traditional teacher-student hierarchy is dismantled, as students and teacher collectively share the responsibilities of developing, assessing, and revising timeline content...

... that invite students to engage with texts and ideas in multiple ways—digital, oral and nonverbal, and visual, as well as through writing—can make our classrooms and academic conversations more accessible and inclusive. Often our students struggle with not what to say but how to say it in an academic register...

... instruction as a case study, the author offers ways to center emotional work, especially work involving frustration and anxiety, in the classroom. Asking students to develop failed prototypes and reflect on the process, for example, can provide them with a better sense of what it might mean to succeed. Giving...

...Kristine Johnson Using methods from corpus linguistics, the author argues that the practice of making knowledge in composition studies is bound with the discursive act of representing students. Students are represented both in ways that align with disciplinary knowledge about writing and in ways...

...Amy Gore; Glenn Koelling As digital tools radically alter the ways instructors teach and students learn, the material resources of special collections offer an opportunity to reflect on the pedagogical differences between online and material instruction. The authors theorize that an embodied...

...Teresa Mangum Of the many fields affected by current economic conditions, the humanities are often hit especially hard because the very category “humanities” is inchoate. Mangum joins scholars who seek ways to bring the values of fields such as literature and history into focus for various public...

...” history. Such exercises introduce students to some of the creative ways that Dante shaped many historical figures to meet his purposes — personal, political, or spiritual. An extended case study of Dante’s inclusion of southern Italian historical actors is used to illustrate some of the more complex ways...

... developed and taught at Brooklyn College for five semesters between 2008 and 2010. Throughout, I pay particular attention to mental disability; stigmatized and silenced, it is often unspoken and unspeakable. I begin by outlining some of the ways that students can benefit from exploring disability and how...

...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...

.... Asking students to analyze these representations using a variety of rhetorical strategies highlights the way that various sources of (competing) knowledge about the national tragedy disrupt the notion that there is an accepted, uniform way of understanding this event. Furthermore, this approach...