Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Vol. 31, No. 1, September 2003

Table of Contents

• Teaching Literacy as Rap at Southeast Community College

  Jim Sundeen

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  Abstract: This article describes how the author became critically aware of the dynamics of literacy and race in a composition classroom.

  Keywords: Literacy, College

• Imagine You’re a Writer

  Gregory Shafer

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  Abstract: Helping one to imagine himself or herself a writer is much more complex than nurturing a more stable grasp of sentence clarity or spelling. Rather, it involves the ability to nurture the personal introspection and cultural scrutiny that makes writing a source for reflection and transformation.

  Keywords: Writing, College

• Audiotaped Response and the Two-Year-Campus Writing Classroom: The Two-Sided Desk, the “Guy with the Ax,” and the Chirping Birds

  Cheryl Mellen and Jeff Sommers

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  Abstract: This article makes an argument that audiotaped response to student writing is particularly useful in teaching two-year-campus students. The argument is grounded in a historical overview of response literature in TETYC, student surveys, and a case study of one undergraduate student.

  Keywords: Writing, College

• Looking Backward: Reflections on Developing Community College Instructors through the Faculty-in-Training (FIT) Program

  MacGregor Frank and Jo Ann Buck

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  Abstract: As the Faculty-in-Training Program at Guilford Technical Community College continues in its fourth year, the authors examine the program’s implementation and processes. They recognize the aspects of the program that have proved successful and identify changes that have been made based upon what their experience has taught them.

  Keywords: College, Professional Development

• To Boldly Go . . . : Launching a Campus Literary Magazine on the Internet

  Victoria Hay

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  Abstract: In 1992, Arizona State University West’s Department of American Studies began publishing its literary journal online.

  Keywords: Technology, Writing, College

• Practice Makes Perfect: Contracting Quantity and Quality

  Nancy Reichert

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  Abstract: Contract grading promotes quality writing as well as a large quantity of writing. In fact, teachers can use contract grading to support and promote the behaviors, thinking skills, and writing skills they believe will help students create quality writing.

  Keywords: Assessment, Writing, College

• Recent Trends in Writing Handbooks: A Linguist’s View

  David J. Cranmer

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  Abstract: Comparing four recent and four older writing handbooks from the perspective of a linguist with experience in the composition classroom reveals both important trends and room for further development.

  Keywords: Writing, College

• Analyzing Argumentative Strategies

  Marcia Schultz

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  Abstract: Working with accounts of famous trials can involve students in thinking through and critiquing important techniques of argumentation.

  Keywords: Writing, College

• Sentence Finishers, and Last Day

  Dave Malone

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  Abstract: 2 poems by Dave Malone.

  Keywords: College

• The (Public) Consequence of Literacy

  Howard Tinberg

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  Abstract: Recently I asked students in a tutoring course that I teach to write a literacy narrative which, while beginning to tell the story of their own emerging literacy,had to conclude with the ways that their literacy has had or will have public consequences. As they shared each other’s drafts in class, it became clear that all the students had powerful stories to tell regarding their own struggles to become literate: stories of their coping with learning disabilities and personal loss, and stories of classroom failures that constrained their natural desire to play with language. For these students, the consequence of literacy couldn’t have been more obvious, as they recounted the shift from private powerlessness to personal empowerment.

  Keywords: Literacy, College

• WHAT WORKS FOR ME: The Cost of Plagiarism; Involving Students the First Day; Grammar, You Say; Learning without Being Taught

  Dana C. Elder; Dorothy Minor; Kathleen Anne Weinberg; Bob Blaisdell

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  Abstract: Abstract for this article is currently not available.

  Keywords: College

• REVIEWS

  Carol Kountz; Karla Brown; Kathleen Abrams

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  Abstract: Review of 3 professional books, English Composition as a Happening, by Geoffrey Sirc; The Plagiarism Handbook: Strategies for Preventing, Detecting, and Dealing with Plagiarism, by Robert A. Harris; and Rational Irrationality: The Art of Teaching Composition, by H. James Jensen.

  Keywords: College

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