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Collision Course: Conflict, Negotiation, and Learning in College Composition

Author(s): Russel K. Durst

Durst proposes a pedagogy of "reflective instrumentalism," an approach that accepts students' pragmatic reasons for studying composition but then attempts to add a critical, socially aware dimension to that careerist orientation.

Level(s): College

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Communion of Friendship, A: Literacy, Spiritual Practice, and Women in Recovery

Author(s): Beth Daniell

Daniell tells the story of a group of women who are, or have been married to alcoholics and who use reading and writing in their search for spiritual growth.

Level(s): College

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Composing Processes of Twelfth Graders, The

Author(s): Janet Emig

Janet Emig reports on a case study in which eight twelfth graders were asked to give autobiographies of their writing experiences and to compose aloud in the presence of the investigator. Based on her findings, she suggests changes in the way composition is taught and the way teachers are trained to teach it.

Level(s): General

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Composition and Sustainability: Teaching for a Threatened Generation

Author(s): Derek Owens

Derek Owens argues that, in light of worsening environmental crises and accelerating social injustices, we need to use sustainability as a way to structure courses and curricula, and that composition studies, with its inherent cross-disciplinarity and its unique function in students’ academic lives, can play a key role in giving sustainability a central place in students’ thinking and in the curriculum as a whole.

Level(s): College

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Composition and/or Literature:
The End(s) of Education

Editor(s): Linda S. Bergmann, Edith M. Baker

This collection focuses on the rift between literature and composition in English studies, examining the extent to which this division affects teaching practices in colleges and universities.

Level(s): College

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Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader, 2nd Edition

Editor(s): Victor Villanueva

A must-have collection for comp veterans and newcomers alike. For the 2nd edition, Villanueva has replaced eight pieces and added two more, for a total of 43 landmark and recent essays by a veritable who's who of composition.

Level(s): College

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Designing Writing Assignments

Author(s): Traci Gardner

Traci Gardner offers practical tips, starting points, and a companion website to help secondary and college teachers design effective writing assignments.

Level(s): Secondary, College

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Dialogic Classroom, The: Teachers Integrating Computer Technology, Pedagogy, and Research

Editor(s): Jeffrey R. Galin, Joan Latchaw

The essays gathered here suggest both practical and theoretical approaches to teaching through networked technologies.

Level(s): College

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Don't Call It That: The Composition Practicum

Editor(s): Sidney I. Dobrin

Edited by Sidney I. Dobrin, this provocative collection of original essays addresses the efforts of comp programs to clarify that introductory graduate-level comp courses are more than "how-to-teach-writing" courses.

Level(s): College

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Dynamics of the Writing Conference: Social and Cognitive Interactions

Editor(s): Thomas Flynn, Mary King

The essays in this collection explore how writing conferences that depart from traditional teacher-student relationships can foster higher-order thinking skills.

Level(s): College

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