Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Vol. 43, No. 1, September 2015

Table of Contents

• Information for Authors

• Editorial: New Voices and . . . Familiar Voices [FREE ACCESS]

  Jeff Sommers

• Feature: Reconsidering Transfer Knowledge at the Community College: Challenges and Opportunities

  Howard Tinberg

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  Abstract: While formidable at both two- and four-year colleges, the obstacles to knowledge transfer from ENG 101 to other courses are especially challenging at community colleges—a point overlooked by transfer scholars in composition, whose gaze so often seems to be on universities and liberal arts colleges.

• Feature: Living Composition [FREE ACCESS]

  Nancy Sommers

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  Abstract: A veteran writing teacher asks the question—What keeps teaching fresh and new?—and discovers, in the process of writing a teaching narrative, how her teaching voice and writing voice intertwine, both in the classroom and on the page.

• Poem: Chat at the missing water cooler

  Edwina Jordan

• Feature: Student Plagiarism and First-Year Composition: A Study [FREE ACCESS]

  David W. Hartwig (New Voice)

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  Abstract: This study reports on student comprehension of plagiarism and plagiarism avoidance before and after the first-year composition course.

• Poem: Rescued by Punctuation

  Marty Steyer

• Poem: Schrödinger’s Prosody

  Vincent Peloso

• Feature: Reading-Writing Integration in Developmental and First-Year Composition

  Bill Marsh (New Voice)

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  Abstract: Based on research conducted at Wilbur Wright College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago, this article explores the strategies, methods, and theoretical frameworks used by English instructors to teach reading-writing connections in developmental and credit-level writing courses.

• Instructional Note: Persistence, Responsibility, and Flexibility in First-Year Writing

  Kathy Albertson

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  Abstract: Through genre awareness, first-year writing students compose a book review to practice habits of mind.

• Readers Write: Response to “Student Plagiarism and First-Year Composition: A Study”

  Jason Kahler (New Voice)

• Poem: The Blood Countess Tells All

  Elizabeth Johnston

• Inquiry: Using Rubrics for Assessing Evidence of Student Learning

  Holly Hassel

• What Works for Me

  Benjamin J. Blood (New Voice); Arina Bokas (New Voice)

• Reviews

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  Abstract: Reviewed are:
  
  A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators, edited by Rita Malenczyk
  Reviewed by Caitlin Holmes
  A New Writing Classroom: Listening, Motivation, and Habits of Mind by Patrick Sullivan
  Reviewed by Panshula Ganeshan

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