Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Vol. 32, No. 4, May 2005

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• Punk Power in the First-Year Writing Classroom

  Optimism One

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  Abstract: This essay frames the connections between punk principles and writing theory in order to re-form what the author emphasizes in his own composition classroom, in particular the do-it-yourself ethic, a sense of passion and fearlessness, the agency to attack institutions, and the seeking of pleasure.

  Keywords: College

• Evaluating Deaf Students' Writing Fairly: Meaning over Mode

  Kathryn L. Schmitz and Susan K. Keenan

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  Abstract: To fairly evaluate the writing of deaf and hard-of-hearing students, instructors should focus on the meaning, not the developmental errors, in the text.

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• "Drive-by English": Teaching College English to High School Students via Interactive TV

  Alan Blackstock and Virginia Norris Exton

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  Abstract: This paper outlines challenges in and essential criteria for the success of dual-credit or concurrent-enrollment writing and literature courses delivered via interactive video technology and suggests specific strategies for administrators, instructors, and classroom facilitators regarding student selection, appropriate technology, and classroom management.

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• INSTRUCTIONAL NOTE: E for Ease in E-Grading

  Lin A. Ryan-Thompson

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  Abstract: This essay offers a method to ease the burden of grading for writing instructors, to simplify checking online sources, and to help prevent plagiaristic recycling of student work.

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• Style and Identity: Students Writing like the Professionals

  Donna Gorrell

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  Abstract: For students to learn to write in a style that expresses their own identity, teachers have to ease up on the “rules” and show students how good writing sometimes breaks the rules, most of which are only myths and lore that have developed with no linguistic basis.

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• INSTRUCTIONAL NOTE: Classroom TRAFFIC: A Metaphor for Encouraging Discussion

  Danette DiMarco

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  Abstract: An exercise modeled on traffic rules encourages effective and considerate class discussions.

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• At the Butler County Learning Annex (Poem)

  William DeGenaro

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• Using a Business Framework to Teach Technical Writing to Nonscientists

  Bonnie Devet

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  Abstract: Technical writing, linked to a business, helps nonscience majors understand the demands of the professional writing world.

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• INSTRUCTIONAL NOTE: Bringing the Barroom into the Classroom: Breaking the Universal, Unspoken Rule

  Judy L. Luttrell

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  Abstract: This article describes how students gain the confidence and skill to write personal essays by practicing their natural ability to tell their own stories orally in social situations.

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• "Who You Think You Are": The Breakfast Club in the Writing Classroom

  Darren Crovitz

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  Abstract: Discussing and writing about The Breakfast Club can lead composition students to assess their own educational identities and ongoing growth as writers.

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• EDITORIAL: Imagining New Identities

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• REVIEWS: Composition Studies in the New Millennium: Rereading the Past, Rewriting the Future

  Matt Smith

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• REVIEWS: Composing Research: A Contextualist Paradigm for Rhetoric and Composition

  Tom G. Smith

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• REVIEWS: Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration: Individuals, Communities, and the Formation of a Discipline

  Stephen A. Raynie

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• Announcements

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• Guest Reviewers

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• Author-Title Index: Volume 32

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