Table of Contents
Issue Theme: Special Issue: 21st Century Literacies
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Information for Authors
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Editorial: The Mirror and the Lamp
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“Who Will Be the Inventors? Why Not Us?” Multimodal Compositions in the Two-Year College Classroom
Lisa Bickmore and Ron Christiansen (New Voices)
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This essay illustrates why compositionists should conceive of multimodal writing assignments as having wide-ranging and forward-thinking parameters, in order to invite the greatest possible range of student responses; it also suggests the directions we should take when evaluating such work.
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From Photographs to Elegies: Engaging the Holocaust in a Writing Course
Cayo Gamber (New Voice)
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Teaching the Holocaust in a first-year writing course—using photographs of the Shoah as a primary resource—authorizes students to engage in research and writing that provides a place of empathetic, dignified witnessing for those who were denied the possibility of realizing the lives they were meant to live.
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Teaching Visual Rhetoric in the First-Year Composition Classroom
Kristen Welch, Nicholas Lee, and Dustin Shuman (New Voices)
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First-year composition students engage with visual rhetoric via interpretation and analysis through a trip to a local art museum for the first essay assignment and through an exploration of photography for the second essay assignment.
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What about the “Google Effect”? Improving the Library Research Habits of First-Year Composition Students
Patrick Corbett (New Voice)
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This article presents a consideration of how students’ existing information-seeking behaviors affect traditional methods of teaching library research in first-year writing courses and offers an alternative method that uses both library and popular Internet search tools.
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Instructional Note: Meeting Student Writers Where They Are: Using Wikipedia to Teach Responsible Scholarship
Paula Patch (New Voice)
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Instead of penalizing students for using Wikipedia as their go-to research source, writing faculty should encourage students to critically analyze this online encyclopedia in order to teach them how to think critically about all texts, online and in print.
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Instructional Note: “As Y’all Know”: Blog as Bridge
Jamey Gallagher (New Voice)
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This article promotes the use and study of blogs in the composition classroom in order to motivate students toward academic writing.
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Special Insert: Forum, the Newsletter for Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty
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Bridging the Gap between College and High School Teachers of Writing in an Online Assessment Community
Merilee Griffin, Amy Falberg, and Gigi Krygier (New Voices)
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College and high school writing teachers participated in an online assessment activity to build common understanding of standards.
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Instructional Note: Using Google Documents for Composing Projects That Use Primary Research in First-Year Writing Courses
Kip Strasma
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For faculty seeking to engage students in inquiry-based, emergent, and primary research in first-year composition courses, Google Documents provides both an efficient and effective means.
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What Works for Me
Mark Harris, Laurie Lykken (New Voice), Jeanne Marie Rose (New Voice)
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Reviews
Abstract:
An Introduction to Game Studies: Games in Culture, by Frans Mäyrä
Reviewed by John Reilly
Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia, by Robert E. Cummings
Reviewed by Kip Strasma
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Poem: Remote by Steve Straight
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Announcements
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