College English, Vol. 65, No. 4, March 2003

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• Extending Rhetorical-Cultural Analysis: Transformations of Home HIV Testing

  J. Blake Scott

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  Abstract: Seeks to extend the work of Rosteck, Bazerman, Condit, and others by further elaborating what a hybrid rhetorical-cultural study might look like. Studies the rhetorics surrounding HIV and AIDS, particularly home HIV testing. Focuses on the rhetoric of science and technology because of its cross-disciplinary nature and its potential to contribute to high-stakes enterprises, such as HIV testing.

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• Location, Location, Location: The “Real” (E)states of Being, Writing, and Thinking in Composition

  Johnathon Mauk

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  Abstract: Illustrates how significant numbers of college students are "lost": they are unsituated in academic space. Suggests a rigorous exploration of the changing academic space outside of school offices and off campuses. Presents 4 assignments that provide a conceptual place (a topic) while also prompting students to make meaning out of the people-places that constitute their daily lives.

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• Television and the Teenage Literate: Discourses of Felicity

  Margaret Mackey

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  Abstract: Investigates questions of what the New London Group calls "multiliteracies." Looks carefully at various texts associated with the television show "Felicity" and considers what they have to say about contemporary popular literacies. Considers how "Felicity" acts as a kind of core sample, extracted from the broader soil of popular culture to help explore some workings of contemporary literacies. Discusses implications for the English classroom.

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• “Generic” Multiculturalism: Hybrid Texts, Cultural Contexts

  Laura L. Behling

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  Abstract: Argues that issues of generic hybridity embody multicultural literature while promoting another kind of multiculturalism that reflects the current debates about literary canons in general and the field of American literature in particular. Considers how a reading of texts that relies on all of their component parts allows literature to perform a vital function, to foster an informed and compassionate vision of the different.

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• REVIEW: Embedded Pedagogy: How to Teach Teaching

  Dale M. Bauer

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• COMMENT & REPONSE: A Comment on “The Cultures of Literature and Composition: What Could Each Learn from the Other?”

  Michael Mattison/Peter Elbow

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• ANNOUNCEMENTS AND CALLS FOR PAPERS

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