...Dana Gliserman-Kopans Abstract Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year documents the cultural changes that the plague brings about in London. The COVID‐19 pandemic similarly brought about dramatic cultural changes, and it changed the way that faculty taught. This article argues that faculty were...

...Sarah Moon Abstract This article argues that the oral performance of personal monologues in first‐year composition courses allows students to identify meaningfully with one another across difference at a time when the American political climate too often forecloses such opportunities. The author...

...Vivian Kao Abstract Drawing on object-oriented approaches to rhetoric and the scholarship of museum education, the author describes her development of a first-year composition experience that puts observation at the center of first-year writing—observation of an art object and its context...

...Jessica Nastal Abstract This article offers a theory of action model for grading in first‐year writing classes, as enacted at two public, suburban, Midwestern two‐year colleges. First, it analyzes labor‐based contract grading and specifications grading through this model, examining how...

... Text in a Large First-Year Writing Program.” In (Re)Visioning Composition Textbooks: Conflicts of Culture, Ideology, and Pedagogy , ed. Xin Liu Gale and Frederic G. Gale, 249 -66. Albany: State University of New York Press. Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. 1994 . “Goodbye,Columbus? Notes on the Culture...

...Howell Chickering 263 Creative Reading: A First-Semester First-Year Course Howell Chickering There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Ralph Waldo Emerson...

... 61 : 307 -27. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture Volume 6, Number 1, © 2006 Duke University Press 123 Exploring Ambiguity and Intention: Higher Learning for First-Year Readers and Writers Johanna Schmertz In How to Read a Page, I. A. Richards...

... 61 : 307 -27. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture Volume 6, Number 1, © 2006 Duke University Press 123 Exploring Ambiguity and Intention: Higher Learning for First-Year Readers and Writers Johanna Schmertz In How to Read a Page, I. A. Richards...

.... 1992 . Theory and Cultural Value . Cambridge: Blackwell. Fish, Stanley. 1994 . There's No Such Thing as Free Speech . New York: Oxford University Press. Hay, Victoria. 2003 . “To Boldly Go...: Launching a Campus Literary Magazine.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College 31.1 : 51 -59...

... . “ The Changing Face of the Novel .” Reading Teacher 66 . 2 : 145 – 48 . Stratman Jacob , ed. 2016 . Lessons in Disability: Essays on Teaching with Young Adult Literature . Jefferson, NC : McFarland . The Young Archive and First- Year Writing Using School Stories to Encourage Students...

...Kim Brian Lovejoy; Steve Fox; Scott Weeden Drawing on research in systems theory and their own programmatic efforts to recognize, value, and integrate language differences in first-year composition, the authors argue for a multilevel approach for sustainable and systemic change to occur. Multilevel...

...Brett Griffiths; Darin Jensen The authors use three frameworks of resilience to analyze interviews with faculty from two-year colleges: individual, psychosocial, and design resilience. They describe behaviors and structures that shape the resilience of English departments in two-year colleges...

...Clancy Ratliff This article presents a new examination of the history of the first-year composition requirement using the “adaptive cycle” idea about the resilience of systems. The author argues that we may be experiencing the collapse of required FYC and should look to other possible futures...

...Joshua Daniel-Wariya; Lynn C. Lewis This article describes the rationale, development, and implementation of a digital archival curriculum within the first-year composition program at Oklahoma State University. Such a curriculum helps students engage genuine inquiry to discover arguments rather...

...Stephanie White Through classroom observations and semi-structured, text-based interviews, this study analyzes the impact of a service-learning first-year composition course on students’ rhetorical knowledge. Students’ own words are used to describe their transformative experiences related...

...Michael Pennell This essay describes a project in a first-year writing course in which students created video Public Service Announcements. The project resulted from a university-sponsored contest to prevent the spread of the H1N1 virus on campus. Illustrating the process of creating such video...

... 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...

...Ellen C. Carillo This article argues for the importance of teaching reading in first-year composition courses within a metacognitive framework called mindful reading . Crucial for developing more comprehensive literacy practices that students can transfer into other courses and contexts...

...Barbara B. Duffelmeyer Critical Work in First-Year Composition: Computers, Pedagogy, and Research Barbara B. Duffelmeyer Constructing forms of agency . . . relies on individuals abilities to see culture as leaky by mobilizing the multiplicity they bring to any cultural production. . . . Rather...

...Paul Hanstedt; Gary Hollis; Rachelle Ankney; Hans Zorn; Gordon Marsh The Roanoke College Writing Initiative Grant (WIG) program provides a two-thousand-dollar stipend for non-English Department faculty to teach in the first-year writing program. Faculty is expected to teach three iterations...