Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Vol. 35, No. 1, September 2007

Table of Contents

• The Professionalization of Two-Year College English Faculty: 1950–1990

  Jeffrey Andelora

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  Abstract: This essay chronicles the early efforts of two-year college English faculty to forge a professional identity.

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• On Reflecting the Reflectiveness of the Teacher-Scholar

  Kinsey McKinney

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  Abstract: The author calls for teacher-scholars in the two-year college to reveal in their scholarship the generation of their triumphs and their failures.

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• Mapping the Frontier: A Survey of Twenty Years of Grammar Articles in TETYC

  Mark Blaauw-Hara

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  Abstract: The author synthesizes twenty-four articles on grammar from the last twenty years of the journal, tracing two major trends.

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• CROSSTALK: GPS (Grammar Positioning System)

  Mark Blaauw-Hara and Andy Anderson

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  Abstract: In this Cross Talk, Mark Blaauw-Hara, the author of “Mapping the Frontier: A Survey of Twenty Years of Grammar Articles in TETYC,” and one of the manuscript’s reviewers, Andy Anderson, engage in a brief conversation about the essay, its content, and the processes of writing, reviewing, and revising.

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• History, Hollywood, and the Hood: Challenging Racial Assumptions in Rural Central Wisconsin

  John Pruitt

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  Abstract: In light of research on diversity learning and teaching, an introductory course on cinematic depictions of African Americans taught at a predominately white, rural university campus leads students to see the impact of history and Hollywood on their own local and statewide communities.

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• Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen: A Multifield Approach for Today’s Composition Students

  Steven Accardi and Bethany Davila

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  Abstract: In this article, we offer practical suggestions for teaching writing to diverse groups of students who represent the fields of composition studies, basic writing, and ESL.

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• ESL Students in the Disciplines: Negotiating the Professional Program Track

  Diana Becket, Ruth Benander, and Rita Kumar

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  Abstract: The authors report on three case studies of ESL students who are taking courses to enter professional programs. Their experiences suggest learning strategies that may help students in professional programs and may offer ways for teachers of composition to support and prepare these students.

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• POEM: Naming the Significance

  Jackie Cornog

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  Abstract: Jackie Cornog is chair of the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology in Boston.

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• POEM: English as a Second Language

  C. D. Albin

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  Abstract: C. D. Albin is professor of English at Missouri State University–West Plains and has contributed poems to several journals, including Big Muddy, Limestone, and Teaching English in the Two-Year College.

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• POEM: Student in Class at Noon

  Rita Pourteau

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  Abstract: Rita Pourteau is an instructor at SOWELA Technical Community College in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

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• EDITORIAL: Knowledge-Building in TETYC: Past, Present, Future

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  Abstract: As we begin a fresh academic year, anticipating new challenges, frustrations, and, we hope, rewards, I find myself thinking of Kenneth Burke’s “unending conversation” (The Philosophy of Literary Form, Berkeley: U of California P, 1941, 110–11). In our classrooms we continue that unending conversation in our discipline, engaging with the knowledge built in the past, beginning to build new knowledge.

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• WHAT WORKS FOR ME: Introducing Peer Review

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  Abstract: Abstract for this article is currently not available.

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• REVIEWS

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• INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

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  Abstract: TETYC publishes articles for two-year college teachers and those teaching the first two years of English in four-year institutions. We seek articles in all areas of composition (basic, first-year, and advanced); business, technical, and creative writing; and the teaching of literature in the first two college years. We also publish articles on topics such as staffing, assessment, technology, writing program administration, speech, journalism, reading, ESL, and other areas of interest.

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• ANNOUNCEMENTS

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  Abstract: TYCA “Fame and Shame” Award Winners.

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• TYCA TO YOU: News from the Regionals of the Two-Year College English Association

  Joel Henderson and the TYCA Regional Representatives

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  Abstract: “A Defining Moment: Trying to Pin Down the Meaning of ‘College-Level’ Writing” from Joel B. Henderson, Editor of “TYCA to You”

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