Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Vol. 31, No. 4, May 2004

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• Thinking Differently about Difference: Multicultural Literature and Service-Learning

  Laurie Grobman

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  Abstract: Combining service-learning with multicultural literature study in a general education first-year course can encourage students to theorize difference from multiple perspectives.

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• INSTRUCTIONAL NOTE: Using the Devil's Dictionary to Teach Definitions

  Mary T. Lane

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  Abstract: Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary can be used as a model to help students understand the structure of a definition and write creative, witty definitions of their own.

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• "A Flare from the Margins": How the Association for Business Communication Fails Two-Year College Faculty

  Lisa Tyler

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  Abstract: The premiere professional organization for those who teach business communication has long neglected the needs of teachers at two-year institutions.

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• The Role of Ethnography in the Post-Process Writing Classroom

  Jennifer Sinor and Michael Huston

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  Abstract: Ethnography is a useful tool for producing the kind of knowledge that a post-process pedagogy argues is necessary for an empowering writing classroom: an awareness of the social situatedness of all acts and the realization that situation drastically affects communication.

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• INSTRUCTIONAL NOTE: Midterm Assessment Techniques: Unearthing the Vital Learning and Growing That Occur beneath the Surface

  Wendy Feuer

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  Abstract: This article describes midterm assessment techniques that helped students tap into their process as emerging writers, and how the author used this feedback to realign the course at a pivotal time to reach resistant students.

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• Collaborative Teaching, Genre Analysis, and Cognitive Apprenticeship: Engineering a Linked Writing Course

  Angela Beck

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  Abstract: This article recounts how a communications and an engineering department developed a collaborative teaching venture—a linked writing course—to provide mentorship for students learning how to write lab reports.

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• INSTRUCTIONAL NOTE: The T Analysis: An Exercise in Literary Inquiry

  M. Kip Hartvigsen

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  Abstract: This article describes a reading/writing strategy that teaches students how to engage literary texts more intensely.

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• Growth

  Rita Pourteau

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• INSTRUCTIONAL NOTE: The Interpretive-Paraphrase Workshop

  G. Wesley Houp

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  Abstract: The interpretive paraphrase is a class workshop method that emphasizes dialogue as a centerpiece of the composing process and provides students with opportunities to reenvision their compositions based on the alternative readings of their peers.

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• Teaching: First Impressions First, or Choosing Atmosphere over Method and Management

  Aaron Levy

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  Abstract: As a writer who teaches and a teacher who writes, the author offers creative ways of producing a positive first impression on the first day of school.

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• EDITORIAL: Theorizing Difference

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• REVIEWS: Critical Intellectuals on Writing

  Edith Baker, Andrea Lang, and Andy Anderson

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• REVIEW: FieldWorking: Reading and Writing Research, 2nd ed.

  Jane Wagoner

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• REVIEW: Inquiry and the Literary Text: Constructing Discussions in the English Classroom

  Marsha Millikin

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• REVIEW: The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film

  Barbara Williamson

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• ANNOUNCEMENTS

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• GUEST REVIEWERS

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• AUTHOR-TITLE INDEX: VOLUME 31

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• TYCA TO YOU

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