Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Vol. 24, No. 3, October 1997

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• An Interview with Peter Elbow

  Kelly Peinado

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  Abstract: Peter Elbow reiterates his philosophy of teaching writing, including to start with personal and experiential writing, to look more at how the writing does and doesn’t work rather than the "quality" of the writing, to use lots of freewriting.

  Keywords: Secondary, College, Writing

• Service Learning and First-Year Composition

  Brooke Haussamen

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  Abstract: Contends that service learning--community service linked to academic courses--adds a valuable experiential dimension to composition classes. Describes service learning at Raritan Valley Community College where in composition it fits as an optional alternative for the research paper assignment that is the culminating course project. Discusses how projects are developed and implemented.

  Keywords: College, School-Community Relation, Writing

• Teaching Writing to Dyslexic Students: A Guide for the Composition Instructor

  John R. Corrigan

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  Abstract: Offers suggestions for teaching dyslexic students from a graduate student who teaches composition and is himself dyslexic. Recommends the following strategies: one-on-one help, study skills assignments, individual strategies, step-by-step process, oral discussion, topics of interest to the student, and questions to build confidence.

  Keywords: College, Pedagogy, Writing

• Knowing Learning Styles Can Improve Self-Confidence of Developmental Writers

  Linda Houston

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  Abstract: Contends that developmental writing students' self confidence improves when they understand their learning styles. Outlines how the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is used to pinpoint students' learning styles and how to help students work "their way."

  Keywords: College, Writing

• INSTRUCTIONAL NOTE · Using Performance as an Interpretative Strategy in Teaching Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess"

  Nicholas Schevera

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  Abstract: Uses role-playing, dramatic monologues, and "tableaux vivant" to interpret Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess" in an introductory literature class at Westchester Community College. Notes that performative strategies illustrate connections in the poem that often remain unnoticed on a first reading.

  Keywords: College, Literature, Pedagogy

• Portfolios in Literature Courses: A Case Study

  Jeff Sommers

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  Abstract: Asks if there is a place for portfolio assessment in the literature classroom. Finds that portfolios help students use writing to engage literary texts in multiple and productive ways, and offer opportunities to examine effects of the reading process over the course of the writing pieces. Argues for a particular kind of portfolio focusing on a single literary work.

  Keywords: College, Literature, Pedagogy

• Reading Against the Current

  Sven Birkerts

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  Abstract: Argues for a deep, deliberate kind of reading on a serious level of engagement. Finds that today's fast-paced world makes this difficult.

  Keywords: College, Reading

• WHAT WORKS FOR ME: How to Teach the Possessive Apostrophe

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  Abstract: Offers strategies for teaching grammar, literature, essay writing, democracy in letters to the editor, and oral presentations of the research paper.

  Keywords: College, Language, Literature, Pedagogy, Writing

• EDITORIAL

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  Abstract: Abstract for this article is currently not available.

  Keywords: College

• Trophy for Patti: Best in Stock

  Georgia A. Newman

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  Keywords: College

• REVIEWS

  John Woodrow Presley; Judith A. Wootten; Deb Martin; Nancy Tranter Wright

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  Abstract: Reviews four books: The Craft of Peter Taylor, ed. by C. Ralph Stephens and Lynda B. Salamon; If Not Now: Developmental Readers in the College Classroom, by Jeanne Henry; Arguing in Communities, by Gary Lane Hatch; Writing for Success, by Mary T. Brown and Fredrick L. Hildebrand.

  Keywords: College

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