Teaching English in the Two-Year College - Volume 32, Issue 2, 1996

How does one nurture a student’s alacrity while fostering unity among less gregarious participants?

This article profiles a group of college students with learning disabilities, outlines strategies used to help those students in their 100-level expository-writing class, and illustrates persistent writing problems with three student writing samples.

This essay demonstrates how the concept of multiple intelligences can be applied to college composition.

The act of translating Shakespearean text into contemporary language encourages student interest in further study of the text.

With the Toulmin analysis, determining an argument’s warrants can be especially tricky and frustrating for students. Using cartoons is an effective strategy for teaching the importance of warrants in a way that students can easily understand and enjoy.

A sequence of six in-class exercises will prepare students to write more effective paraphrases in their research-based papers.

Using diverse texts to critically examine America’s melting pot ideal supports basic writing students’ successful matriculation through rhetorically and socially challenging locations.