Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Vol. 32, No. 1, September 2004

Table of Contents

Issue Theme: Teaching as Scholarship

• Scholarship, Textbooks, and Mythology

  Laura K. Noell

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  Abstract: A new textbook designed for first- or second-year courses in mythology as an introduction to literature shows that a community college faculty member who writes a textbook adds teaching experience to scholarship.

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• Two-Year College English Faculty and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: The Journey Awaits

  Jeffrey Sommers

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  Abstract: Many two-year English faculty are already engaged in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

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• INSTRUCTIONAL NOTE: On Keeping an Academic Journal

  Michael A. Gee

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  Abstract: It could very well be that the unexpected minor occurrences in a classroom are the most precious educational pearls for a teacher to record and preserve.

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• Institutional Models for Engaging Faculty in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

  Susan Kay Miller, Shelley Rodrigo, Veronica Pantoja, and Duane Roen

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  Abstract: This article describes the initiatives of one community college district and its individual colleges to engage faculty in the scholarship of teaching and learning.

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• "Aren't You Wasting Your Ph.D at a Community College?" Four Voices Rewriting the Narrative

  Janet Peterson Gerstner, Vicki Holmsten, Connie A. Jacobs, and Andrea M. Penner

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  Abstract: Four members of a community college English faculty respond to the question of the appropriateness of advanced graduate training for a community college teaching career.

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• Writing Reconsidered: Redefining Composition Scholarship in the Corporate University

  Susan Latta

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  Abstract: Composition has had a strong commitment to the scholarship of application.

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• Practicing Boyer's Scholarship of Integration: A Program for Community College Faculty--Revised

  Victoria N. Salmon

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  Abstract: The Community College Education program at George Mason University is committed to Ernest Boyer’s philosophy of integration; it encourages better pedagogy and it revitalizes the two-year college classroom.

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• Building a Two-Year College Teacher-Scholar Community: A Primer

  Mark Reynolds

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  Abstract: The author offers basic suggestions for faculty to become active teacher-scholars within the two-year college professional community.

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• Support for Scholar-Teachers

  Myrna Goldenberg and Barbara Stout

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  Abstract: A Maryland college supports scholarship that helps faculty maintain currency in their disciplines and explore effective pedagogy.

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• Assessing outside the Classroom

  Linda Houston, Linda Johnson, and Larry McDoniel

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  Abstract: What occurs when we address writing outcomes from the perspective of the student and the student’s world?

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• INSTRUCTIONAL NOTE: Connecting with the Community and Rewiritng History through the Composition Curriculum

  James M. Palmer

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  Abstract: Community college students, especially those classified as nontraditional, often have a vested interest in their own communities, and instructors can both strengthen and take advantage of this interest by reaching out to the community through the composition curriculum.

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• EDITORIAL: Teaching as Scholarship

  Howard Tinberg, editor

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• TRIBUTE: Diana Hacker, 1942-2004

  Joyce Magnotto Neff

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• ANNOUNCEMENTS

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• TYCA TO YOU

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