College Composition and Communication, Vol. 59, No. 1, September 2007

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• Imprints

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  Abstract: Imprints from the February 1958 issue of CCC, “Speed of Cultural Change” by Marshall McLuhan.

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• From the Editor

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• Rejecting the Remedial Brand: The Rise and Fall of the Dartmouth Writing Clinic

  Neal Lerner

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  Abstract: “Branding” a university in an effort to attract student applicants and alumni dollars is increasingly commonplace. The history of the Dartmouth Writing Clinic attests to the ways student writers represent an institution’s brand and provides a troubling picture of a world in which under-prepared students are branded out of existence.

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• “Extraordinary Understandings” of Composition at the University of Chicago: Frederick Champion Ward, Kenneth Burke, and Henry W. Sams

  James P. Beasley

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  Abstract: While Richard Weaver, R. S. Crane, Richard McKeon, and Robert Streeter have been most identified with rhetoric at the University of Chicago and its institutional return in the 1950s, the archival record demonstrates that Frederick Champion Ward, dean of the undergraduate “College” from 1947 to 1954, and Henry W. Sams, director of English in the College during Ward’s tenure, created the useful tensions for these positions to emerge.

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• Accessing Disability: A Nondisabled Student Works the Hyphen

  Margaret Price

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  Abstract: This article challenges current assumptions about the teaching and assessment of critical thinking in the composition classroom, particularly the practice of measuring critical thinking through individual written texts. Drawing on a case study of a class that incorporated disability studies discourse, and applying discourse analysis to student work, “Accessing Disability” argues that critical thinking can be taught more effectively through multi-modal methods and a de-emphasis on the linear progress narrative.

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• The Ethics of Argument: Rereading Kairos and Making Sense in a Timely Fashion

  Michael Harker

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  Abstract: This study challenges the prevailing interpretations of the Greek rhetorical principle of kairos—”saying the right thing at the right time”—and attempts to draw on a more nuanced understanding of the term in order to provide generative re-readings of three Braddock Award–winning essays.

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• Teaching and Parenting: Who Are the Members of Our Profession?

  Bobbi Ann Hammill

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  Abstract: This qualitative investigation explores the perceptions of four women compositionists regarding mothers, teaching, and scholarship in the field of composition. I examine narrative case studies about four women who have PhDs in composition from the same doctoral program.

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• Special Section: FORUM

  Evelyn Beck

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• Interchanges: Peers and Plagiarism: The Role of Student Judicial Boards

  Elaine Whitaker

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• Review Essay: English Contact Languages and Rhetorics: Implications for U.S. English Composition

  Carol Severino

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• Review Essay: Scoring by Machine

  Carol Rutz

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• Guidelines for Writers

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• CCCC News

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• Announcements and Calls

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