Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Vol. 29, No. 4, May 2002

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• Advertising and Interpretive Analysis: Developing Reading, Thinking, and Writing Skills in the Composition Course

  Matthew Henry

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  Abstract: Suggests that students need to learn to "read" the cultural texts surrounding them. Argues that there is great need for including analyses of popular culture in the college curriculum. Presents a unit to help students gain a greater appreciation for the influence that advertising has upon them and the subtlety with which it manipulates people, mainly to their detriment.

  Keywords: College

• Discourse in the Composition Classroom: Agency, Personal Narrative, and the Politics of Disclosure

  Gina L. DeBlase

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  Abstract: Discusses how social identity plays a significant role in defining the nature of classroom interaction. Describes how unresolved conflict emerged when the development of authentic student voice in narrative autobiography was the primary and perhaps only objective. Presents an example of the ways in which asymmetrical power relations influence how discourse works in the expressionist composition classroom.

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• "I Just Think Maybe You Could. . ." Peer Critiquing through Online Conversations

  Lois Rubin

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  Abstract: Discusses how an online environment enhances the effectiveness of peer critique. Describes experiences with peer critiquing by computer. Notes that students responded favorably to online critiquing. Concludes that the results were critiques that were lively and personable--not matter-of-fact and dull like many handwritten ones.

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• Reimagining Class Discussion in the Age of the Internet

  Patrick Sullivan

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  Abstract: Discusses how a networked classroom environment--either to supplement or to replace traditional face-to-face class discussion--offers English teachers opportunities that can help make class discussion more engaging, more worthwhile, and significantly more effective as a teaching tool. Considers how to use new technology in the classroom to enhance class discussion.

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• Process Intervention: Teacher Response and Student Writing

  Greg A. Giberson

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  Abstract: Addresses past and current issues concerning teacher response to first-year student writing and suggests that teacher intervention should be viewed as a writing process itself. Describes the author's own process of responding to student writing, which he hasfound to be very effective. Concludes that individual teachers must decide for themselves what ways of responding best suit their teaching styles.

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• INSTRUCTIONAL NOTE: Anthologizing Transformation: Breaking Down Students' "Private Theories" about Poetry

  Nancy L. Chick

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  Abstract: Presents an assignment in which students look through a handful of poetry collections or anthologies, seeking 20 poems they like and thus understand or want to understand to some extent. Describes the benefits of this assignment, including honing students' interpretive skills, dispelling their misconceptions about the genre, and continuing their "initiation into art."

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• WHAT WORKS FOR ME: Peer Review Assessment

  John Mumma

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  Abstract: Describes a procedure that encourages both earnest participation in the reviewing process (the production of detailed responses) and revision that actually takes student responses into consideration. Concludes that by requiring students to tell the teacher what they chose to leave alone and what they chose to change, the teacher is able to get them to make real writer's choices.

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• Freeway Flyer Sestina

  John T. Bell

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• The Poem in the Anthology

  Lisa McIntyre

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• Rice; Free Sex; Dead Phone

  Christine Japely

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• EDITORIAL: Theory and Practice

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• REVIEWS

  Edith M. Baker; Susan Becker; Linda Houston; Gregory Shafer; Bette Brickman

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  Abstract: English Teachers—the Unofficial Guide: Researching the Philosophies of English Teachers; B. Marshall. Attending to the Margins: Writing, Researching, and Teaching on the Front Lines; M. H. Kells & V. Balester. Mutuality in the Rhetoric and Composition Classroom; D. L. Wallace & H. R. Ewald. Talkin' That Talk: Language, Culture and Education in African America; G. Smitherman. Writing Simple Poems: Pattern Poetry for Language Acquisition; V. L. Holmes & M. R. Moulton.

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• TYCA TO YOU

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• AUTHOR-TITLE INDEX: Volume 29

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