Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Vol. 36, No. 1, September 2008

Table of Contents

• Information for Authors

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• Editorial: With Apologies to Mr. Eliot . . .

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• An Analysis of the National TYCA Research Initiative Survey, Section II: Assessment Practices in Two-Year College English Programs

  Patrick Sullivan

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  Abstract: This analysis of the Assessment Practices section of the national TYCA survey of writing programs examines recent trends in placement and exit practices at the two-year college.

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• What We Talked about When We Talked about Disability

  Kathleen Gould (New Voice)

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  Abstract: Even with careful, thoughtful planning and attention to the scholarship in disability studies, any course that centers on literature featuring illness and disability inevitably interrogates the philosophical positions and social values of the disabled community, as well as those of the able-bodied, necessitating a classroom that is sensitive to discomfort encountered when participants’ deeply held beliefs come into conflict with their own desires to be seen as politically correct.

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• Cross Talk: Response to “What We Talked about When We Talked about Disability” by Kathleen Gould

  Paul Heilker

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• Instructional Note: Literature Ink

  Jan Geyer

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  Abstract: This article describes an approach to discussing and writing about literature using common student experience, with tattoos as a point of entry.

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• Poem: Twenty Grand

  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, Cape Rock, and Teaching English in the Two-Year College.

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• Instructional Note: The Mock Research Paper

  Carlton Clark (New Voice)

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  Abstract: The writing assignment described offers an introduction to the college research paper genre.

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• Instructional Note: Creating a Community of Learners through a Class Archive

  Marianne Cotugno (New Voice)

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  Abstract: The article argues for the creative use of archives in the classroom as a way of building a community of learners.

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• Instructional Note: In Search of Another Way: Using Proust to Teach First-Year Composition

  Janet Moser (New Voice)

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  Abstract: Rhetorically challenging literature can be made to serve the purposes of first-year composition in new ways. Excerpts from the novels of Marcel Proust that focus on the author’s characteristic scrutinizing, reflexive attention to style work successfully as models for assisting writers in acquiring the habits of reading and re-reading, and of writing, revisiting, and revising, which are essential to well-written prose.

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• Instructional Note: On Paying Attention: Flagpoles, Mindfulness, and Teaching Writing

  Keith Kroll

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  Abstract: The responsibility of a writing teacher is, finally, to teach his or her students to pay attention—to their own lives and to the world in which they live.

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• Poems: On Her Ground and Chiasmus

  John Presley

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• Readers Write: Response to “The Waiting Self ” and TYCA to You” (December 2007 issue)

  Keith Kroll, Joel Henderson

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• REVIEWS

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  Abstract: "When Readers Disagree", Kip Strasma, Review Editor; "Teaching Writing with Latino/a Students: Lessons Learned at Hispanic-Serving Institutions" by Cristina Kirklighter, Diana Cardenas, and Susan Wolff Murphy, Reviewed by Kip Strasma; "Engaging Grammar: Practical Advice for Real Classrooms" by Amy Benjamin with Tom Oliva, Reviewed by Kimme Nuckles; "Educating English Language Learners: A Synthesis of Research Evidence" by Fred Genesee, Kathryn Lindholm-Leary, William M. Saunders, and Donna Christian, Reviewed by Mercè Pujol.

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• TYCA to You

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