Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Vol. 34, No. 4, May 2007

Table of Contents

• Getting Personal: Responding to Student Self-Disclosure

  Janet Lucas

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  Abstract: While some scholars in English and other disciplines disparage personal narrative writing by students, it can serve as a conversational bridge between students’ home cultures and academic culture and as a contact zone where those cultures can clash yet be explored;however, instructors and others who work with student writing must be prepared to hear and respond empathetically to emotionally difficult revelations such as the one discussed in this essay.

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• Us and Them: Joyce Carol Oates and the Stories Students Tell

  William DeGenaro

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  Abstract: Responding with strategic empathy to the traumatic stories students share with us provides an opportunity to break down an elitist binary between teacher and student. Joyce Carol Oates’s novel them can serve as a cautionary tale for understanding the dangers of disregarding student trauma.

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• Cross Talk: Student Self-Disclosure

  Janet Lucas and William DeGenaro

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  Abstract: The preceding two essays focused on the challenges presented by students’ selfdisclosures in their writing. The authors, Janet Lucas and William DeGenaro, have read each other’s essays and provided the following brief responses. This cross talk between the writers continues, in a more deliberate way, the cross talk generated by their essays.

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• Teaching without License: Outsider Perspectives on First-Year Writing

  Janet C. Myers and Cassandra Kircher

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  Abstract: Of interest to instructors of first-year writing, this paper delineates the challenges faced by professors of first-year writing who lack formal graduate training in composition and rhetoric, and it explores the strategy that enables them to become excellent teachers despite such challenges.

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• Novices Encounter a Novice Literature: Introducing Digital Literature in a First-Year College Writing Class

  Ingrid G. Daemmrich

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  Abstract: Introducing Web-based literary hypertexts in an introductory writing course motivates students to ponder both the changing techniques of writing and reading and their own attitudes toward these two interrelated activities in a wholly new way. Evaluating a novice literature launches novice readers and writers on a journey to becoming “experts” at facing with confidence the many challenges that college and life will bring, including a fundamentally new approach to reading and writing.

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• INSTRUCTIONAL NOTE: Beyond the Veil: Writing about the Paranormal in Basic and First-Year Writing Courses

  Laurel Johnson Black

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  Abstract: While it is often ridiculed, the subject of the paranormal offers an effective means to encourage student involvement and support critical-thinking skills in first-year writing courses.

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• INSTRUCTIONAL NOTE: Connecting the Dots: Timed Writing Tests as Prewriting Activities

  Nancy Lawson Remler

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  Abstract: Composition teachers can reconcile the conflict between effective writing instruction and educational reform mandates by making timed writing assignments part of the writing process.

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• POEM: The Return

  Tom Speer

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• EDITORIAL: Cross Talk

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• REVIEW: Delivering College Composition: The Fifth Canon, edited by Kathleen Blake Yancey

  Reviewed by Norman R. Gayford

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• REVIEW: Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind by Gerald Graff, and "They Say/I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein

  Reviewed by Jason Pickavance

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• Information for Authors

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• TYCA to You

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• Guest Reviewers

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• Author-Title Index: Volume 34

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