Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Vol. 36, No. 3, March 2009

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• Information for Authors

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• Editorial: My Pet Fave

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• Ideas for the Future of TYCA

  Eric Bateman

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  Abstract: This essay proposes new activities and priorities for TYCA’s regional and national organizations.

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• Rhetoric of Race: Critical Pedagogy without Resistance

  Caleb Corkery (New Voice)

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  Abstract: This essay reports on an effective approach to teaching both rhetorical skills and white racial awareness by using historical moments when racial definitions were asserted and defended, allowing students to see their constructed racial identities through a nonthreatening rhetorical lens.

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• The Textbook’s the Thing: Re-Emphasizing Creative Nonfiction in First-Year Composition

  Jennifer Locke Whetham (New Voice)

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  Abstract: The literary genres of creative nonfiction have tremendous potential to create a new kind of process-centered textbook—and perhaps a process-centered pedagogy that has finally reached maturity.

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• Poem: The Twentieth Essay

  Deborah Brink Wöhrmann (New Voice)

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• Just Not Enough Time: Accelerated Composition Courses and Struggling ESL Writers

  Maria Scordaras (New Voice)

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  Abstract: Although accelerated summer and winter intersession courses may appeal to developmental ESL students who are required to take several ESL/English courses before placing into first-year composition, the abbreviated time period may actually be detrimental for weaker ESL students. Two case studies are presented here that chronicle two students’ struggles in such a course.

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• Poem: Punctuation

  Steve Straight (New Voice)

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• Instructional Note: Speaking of Sentences: Chunking

  Nanette Wichman (New Voice)

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  Abstract: The author offers a new strategy for working with sentences in college composition that prompts students to access and apply their native grammatical abilities.

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• Instructional Note: Amplify Errors to Minimize Them

  Maria Shine Stewart

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  Abstract: The author offers her experience of modeling mistakes—lots of them—and writing spontaneously in the computer classroom to get students’ attention and elicit their editorial response.

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• Special Insert: Forum, the Newsletter for Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty

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• Instructional Note: Understanding Audience: Using Online Surveys in First-Year Writing Courses

  Claire Lutkewitte (New Voice)

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  Abstract: To gain an understanding of how audiences shape the way they write, students use online surveys in order to gather information about their audiences—information that helps them create persuasive presentations in a first-year writing course.

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• Instructional Note: Seeing Literature through Students’ Eyes: The Text Preview

  Leah Zuidema (New Voice)

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  Abstract: Students completing the text preview assignment use multimodal design, introducing classmates to texts in ways that motivate and inform their reading.

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• REVIEWS

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  Abstract: Composition and/or Literature, edited by Linda S. Bergmann and Edith M. Baker, and Integrating Literature and Writing Instruction by Judith H. Anderson and Christine R. Farris, reviewed by Jason Pickavance; Local Histories: Reading the Archives of Composition by Patricia Donahue and Gretchen Flesher Moon, reviewed by Keely R. Austin; Take 20: Teaching Writing by Todd Taylor, reviewed by Jeffrey Klausman.

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• TYCA to You

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