Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Vol. 38, No. 2, December 2010

Table of Contents

• Information for Authors

• Editorial: Call for Papers: Special Issue on ESL in Diverse Genres and Voices

• Reflective Writing and Life-Career Planning: Extending the Learning in a Learning Community Model

  Nicholas Nownes and Michael Stebleton (New Voices)

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  Abstract: This essay recounts the authors’ experiences as community college faculty members in a learning community linking first-year composition with a class in life-career planning and development.

• Basically Unheard: Developmental Writers and the Conversation on Online Learning

  Linda Stine (New Voice)

• The Library’s New Relevance: Fostering the First-Year Student’s Acquisition, Evaluation, and Integration of Print and Electronic Materials

  Greg Hlavaty and Murphy Townsend (New Voices)

• Assessing Collaborative Writing in Nontraditional and Traditional First-Year College Writing Courses

  Ingrid G. Daemmrich

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  Abstract: This study assesses the benefits and drawbacks of assigning a collaboratively written midterm paper in nontraditional and traditional introductory college composition courses. Students’ responses suggest a radically different model to be tested in the future.

• Poem: English, April 1970

  Manette Berlinger (New Voice)

• How Do We See What We See? Pedagogical Lacunae and Their Pitfalls in the Classroom

  Jennifer A. Rich (New Voice)

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  Abstract: This article considers pedagogical aporias in teaching students to perform critical analyses of nontraditional “texts,” such as advertisements and shopping mall display windows.

• Response: Do We Really Know What the Problems Are? A Messy Conversation about Pedagogical Questions and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

  Ting Man Tsao

• Response: Response to “How Do We See What We See?”

  Kinsey McKinney

• Poem: Why I Can’t Turn My Essay In

  David Starkey

• Poem: The Day after My Mother Dies I Return to Class

  Rick Kempa

• What Didn’t Work for Me

  Rob Wallace, with responses from Adam Renchen, Eric Bateman, Jan Geyer, and Kristen Welch

• Reviews

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  Teaching Writing Online: How and Why by Scott Warnock, Reviewed by David J. Cranmer

   

  Teaching Writing Online: How and Why by Scott Warnock, Reviewed by Amy Cummins

   

  Generation 1.5 in College Composition: Teaching Academic Writing to U.S.-Educated Learners of ESL, edited by Mark Roberge, Meryl Siegal, and Linda Harklau, Reviewed by Todd Ruecker

   

  Learning from Language: Symmetry, Asymmetry, and Literary Humanism by Walter H. Beale, Reviewed by Eric Bateman

   

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