College English, Vol. 64, No. 3, January 2002

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• The Platteville Papers: Inscribing Frontier Ideology and Culture in a Nineteenth-Century Writing Assignment

  Kathryn Fitzgerald

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  Abstract: Examines the far-reaching cultural implications of a kind of writing not usually deemed culturally significant--school assignments. Studies 44 papers written in 1898 by senior class members of the Platteville Normal School in southwestern Wisconsin assigned to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Wisconsin's statehood. Examines the cultural work accomplished by these student writers in their own time and place.

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• Ghosts: Liberal Education and Negotiated Authority

  Gwen Gorzelsky

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  Abstract: Discusses the relation between professional training and a humanities education. Notes that the humanities in general education and English studies in particular face pressure, in the wake of poststructuralism, to address extra-academic audiences--particularly working-class, working-poor, and lower-middle-class families--with a revised articulation of what a liberal arts education offers.

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• Developing Pedagogies: Learning the Teaching of English

  Shari Stenberg and Amy Lee

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  Abstract: Addresses an underlying assumption that teaching is a skill that can be acquired by the proper training, rather than intellectual work deserving of study. Suggests an alternative basis for teacher development by promoting and demonstrating a process of pedagogical inquiry.

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• OPINION: Professional Discord

  Jeffrey Wallen

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  Abstract: Discusses how the rise of a culture of professionalism--and the attitudes, institutions, and interests that separate and define those within a profession from others--has been of great interest to historians and sociologists, and also to professors of literature. Draws attention to the ways in which professionalization channels discord into a few acceptable forms.

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• REVIEW: Literacy beyond the Contact Zone

  Kirk Branch

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• COMMENT & RESPONSE: A Comment on the “WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition”

  Soles/Yancey

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• COMMENT: A Comment on “Abandoning the Ruins”

  Bruce Novak

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