Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Vol. 33, No. 1, September 2005

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• TYCA REPORT: Preface to Research and Scholarship in the Two-Year College

  Frank Madden

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• TYCA REPORT: Report of the Committee on the Two-Year CollegeTeacher-Scholar: Research and Scholarship in the Two-Year College

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• Bemoans, Belittles, and Leaves

  Amy Lynch-Biniek

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  Abstract: In this article, I examine Lynn Truss’s book of punctuation rules and faux pas, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, contemplating the complex relationships among class, academics, and language snobbery. I don’t refute Truss’s lessons on punctuation. Instead, I use her text as a jumping-off point for discussion of the social issues embedded in her guide and others like it.

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• An Analysis of the Style of Exemplary First-Year Writing

  Derek Soles

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  Abstract: The application of Edward P. J. Corbett’s prose style chart to three exemplary first-year essays reveals that there is an identifiable, hence teachable, exemplary first-year writing style.

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• The Research Paper as an Act of Citizenship: Possibilities and Pragmatism

  Tim N. Taylor

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  Abstract: By focusing on local problems or issues, student writers can craft research essays that exemplify civic engagement, a practice that reaffirms composition’s tacit tradition from classical rhetoric and the educational philosophy of John Dewey.

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• INSTRUCTIONAL NOTE: Fun with Fundamentals: Games and Electronic Activities to Reinforce Grammar in the College Writing Classroom

  Katherine M. Thomas and Marlisa Austin

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  Abstract: Today’s students are arriving on college campuses with little knowledge of grammar and usage, so instructors may need to employ alternate strategies of games and electronic activities to provide the practice such students need.

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• ESL Students and the Use of Literature in Composition Courses

  Alan Hirvela

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  Abstract: ESL students in their first year of college discuss their feelings about the use of literature in composition courses and offer qualified support for its inclusion.

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• Gifts (Poem)

  Connie Wolfe

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• EDITORIAL: Research and Scholarship in the Two-Year College and Guidelines for the Academic Preparation of English Faculty at Two-Year Colleges

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• WHAT WORKS FOR ME

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• REVIEW: The War against Grammar by David Mulroy

  Craig Machado

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• REVIEW: Teaching and Learning Grammar: The Prototype-Construction Approach by Arthur Whimbey and Myra J. Linden

  John M. Spartz

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• REVIEW: Rhetorical Democracy: Discursive Practices of Civic Engagement, edited by Gerard A Hauser and Amy Grim

  Tim N. Taylor

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• ANNOUNCEMENTS

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• WINNERS OF TYCA'S OUTSTANDING PROGRAMS AWARDS

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• TYCA to YOU

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