Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Vol. 34, No. 3, March 2007

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• Assignments by Design

  Kip Strasma

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  Abstract: An effective assignment design for writing classes unfolds at the crossroads of theory and practice; instruction and reflection; and experience and serendipity.

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• INSTRUCTIONAL NOTE: The Professional E-mail Assignment, or wyatsyername@howyadoin.com

  Martine Courant Rife

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  Abstract: The professional e-mail assignment allows students to gain digital literacies via community, critical engagement, and application.

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• INSTRUCTIONAL NOTE: Of "Indians," History, and Truth: Postmodernism 101 for First-Year Students

  Nicole Wiley

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  Abstract: This article details a strategy for empowering students in a first-semester composition course through cultural literacy by using Jane Tompkins’s essay “‘Indians’: Textualism, Morality,and the Problem of History,” in my first-semester college composition course.

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• INSTRUCTIONAL NOTE: Custer and Longfellow: Helping First-Year English Students Understand the Relationship between History and Poetry

  Bonnie D. Devet

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  Abstract: To understand better the subtle relationship between history and English, first-year students in an introductory literature class compare Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem about the 1876 deaths of General George Armstrong Custer and his men with historical accounts of the Battle of the Little Bighorn in order to discover how historical and poetic truths are related.

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• INSTRUCTIONAL NOTE: Use of the Personal Interview as a Teaching Tool in English Composition

  Barbara A. Morris

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  Abstract: English composition instructors who use the personal interview to foster socialization among students and to generate quick and easy writing experiences may overlook the valuable learning opportunities that the personal interview can also bring to an English composition classroom if the assignment is integrated into the classroom through a structured approach.

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• Generative Themes and At-Risk Students

  William H. Thelin and Kara Taczak

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  Abstract: This article explores the efforts of an instructor of at-risk students to implement into her course a generative theme that urged students to explore the conditions of their admittance as provisional students.

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• Giving Grades, Taking Tolls: Assessing the Impact of Evaluation on Developing Writers

  Brenda Helmbrecht

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  Abstract: This article uses one basic writer’s experience with assessment as a vehicle to explore whether the assessment practices struggling writers encounter on their essays effectively usher them into academic discourse or simply scare them away from that ambition entirely.

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• A Christian Fundamentalist in a Reader-Response Class: Merging Transactions and Convictions

  Gregory Shafer

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  Abstract: The author discusses his goal to imbue more reader-response criticism into a religious student’s language experience.

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• FORUM: The Newsletter of the Committee on Contingent, Adjunct, and Part-Time Faculty (CAP)

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• POEM: Classroom Séance

  Ira Schaeffer

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• EDITORIAL: "Based on a True Story"

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• REVIEW: English Beyond the Basics: A Handbook (With a Special Focus on Spanish Speakers), 2nd ed. by Ted Johnston and Joe Old

  John A. Lencyk and Susan K. Miller-Cochran

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• REVIEW: Writing Across Borders by Wayne Robertson

  Lisa Prothers

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• Information for Authors

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• TYCA to You

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