Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Vol. 35, No. 3, March 2008

Table of Contents

• Mapping the Terrain: The Two-Year College Writing Program Administrator

  Jeffrey Klausman

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  Abstract: By reimagining traditional WPA work in the context of a two-year college, we can begin to identify unique challenges and opportunities for a two-year college WPA.

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• TYCA and the Struggle for a National Voice: 1994-1997

  Jeffrey Andelora

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  Abstract: This essay chronicles the events that led to the ratification of TYCA.

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• INSTRUCTIONAL NOTE: Supplementing Tribal Culture Using Technical Writing Basics

  Stuart Tichenor

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  Abstract: Using technical writing basics, a cohort of Lighthorse Police Officers from the Muscogee (Creek) Nation added to their tribe’s cultural history by recording part of their family and clan history as well as documenting their law enforcement careers and education.

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• Look Who’s Talking: Discourse Analysis, Discussion, and Initiation-Response-Evaluation Patterns in the College Classroom

  Maureen Neal

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  Abstract: In this article, an analysis and critique of one small but pedagogically significant component of classroom discourse (instructors’ use of long-familiar questioning routines in whole-group classroom discussion) is used to support the larger argument that analysis of classroom discourse at the college level offers many valuable ways to reflect on, and transform, our teaching.

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• The Rules of the Game in an Introductory Literature Class

  Ed Jones

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  Abstract: This article explains the rules for playing the “Interpretation Game” in a literature-based first-year writing class, describes the resulting class discussion, and reflects on the ways that rules and games can promote rich collaboration.

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• CROSS TALK: IRE: Who Speaks and How?

  Maureen Neal and Ed Jones

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  Abstract: The preceding two essays focus on the ongoing challenge to engage students in meaningful conversation with the course content, their reading, their instructor, and one another. The authors, Maureen Neal and Ed Jones, have read each other’s essays and provided the following brief responses. This cross talk between the writers is an attempt to make explicit the more subtle cross talk between the essays experienced by those who read them one after the other.

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• When Timing Isn’t Everything: Resisting the Use of Timed Tests to Assess Writing Ability

  Ann Del Principe and Janine Graziano-King

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  Abstract: In this study, we compared self-revised essays to timed writing exams written by students in a developmental English course in a community college. Using a multiple-trait rubric, we found that self-revised essays showed greater elaboration than timed writing exams, and that elaboration and focus correlated only for self-revised essays. We argue, based on these findings and on theoretical grounds, for further exploration of the self-revised essay as an authentic portrait of student writing ability.

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• SPECIAL INSERT: Forum, the Newsletter for Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty

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• EDITORIAL: New Voices

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• READERS WRITE: Standardized Tests

  Rebecca Babcock and Nancy Lawson Remler

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• REVIEWS

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  Abstract: Preventing Plagiarism: Tips and Techniques Laura by Hennessey DeSena, Reviewed by Moira Casey; English Studies: An Introduction to the Discipline(s) by Bruce McComiskey, Reviewed by Carolyn Brown; English Studies: An Introduction to the Discipline(s) by Bruce McComiskey, Reviewed by Eric Bateman; Multicultural Hybridity: Transforming American Literary Scholarship and Pedagogy by Laurie Grobman, Reviewed by Edith M. Baker; First Time Up: An Insider’s Guide for New Composition Teachers by Brock Dethier, Reviewed by Linda Houston.

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• Information for Authors

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• TYCA to You

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