Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Vol. 39, No. 2, December 2011

Table of Contents

• Information for Authors

• Editorial: What Might Work for Me

• “A Lifelong Aversion to Writing”: What If Writing Courses Emphasized Motivation?

  Patrick Sullivan

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  Abstract: There has been a great deal of groundbreaking research done on motivation during the last twenty-five years, and all of it points to the importance of intrinsic motivation.This research has very significant ramifications for teachers of English.

• Poem: Nocturne: Three Score

  Harry Moore

• Basic Writers and the Echoes of Intertextuality

  Cheryl Hogue Smith

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  Abstract: Instruction that fosters intertextual awareness in basic writers can help them overcome their tendency to compartmentalize what they learn from academic texts and thereby help them make rich connections among the texts they read and write.

• The New Art of Revision? Research Papers, Blogs, and the First-Year Composition Classroom

  Lisa A. Costello (New Voice)

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  Abstract: Although blogs used in the composition classroom have most often been employed as prewriting forums or journals, this article suggests that blogs can also be used effectively as a revision tool in the later stages of writing academic research papers.

• Op’nin’ the Door for Appalachia in the Writing Classroom

  Amanda Hayes

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  Abstract: This essay explores mainstream apprehensions against Appalachian dialect(s), arguing that these dialects/cultures have a misunderstood history and an important role to play in Appalachian composition classrooms.

• Poem: ST RAGE

  Steve Straight

• “I Just Turned In What I Thought”: Authority and Voice in Student Writing

  Anne Elrod Whitney (New Voice)

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  Abstract: The story of one student writer shows how the challenges of writing from sources are tied to issues of voice and authority.

• What Works for Me

  Randy Laist (New Voice); Kate Bradley (New Voice)

• Reviews

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  Reviewed are:

  Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Public Engagement, by Linda Flower, Reviewed by Tim Taylor

  Writings from Life, by Tom Tyner, Reviewed by Robert A. Berens

• TYCA to You

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