Teaching English in the Two-Year College - Volume 32, Issue 4, 2005

To fairly evaluate the writing of deaf and hard-of-hearing students, instructors should focus on the meaning, not the developmental errors, in the text.

This paper outlines challenges in and essential criteria for the success of dual-credit or concurrent-enrollment writing and literature courses delivered via interactive video technology and suggests specific strategies for administrators, instructors, and classroom facilitators regarding student selection, appropriate technology, and classroom management.

This essay offers a method to ease the burden of grading for writing instructors, to simplify checking online sources, and to help prevent plagiaristic recycling of student work.

For students to learn to write in a style that expresses their own identity, teachers have to ease up on the “rules”; and show students how good writing sometimes breaks the rules, most of which are only myths and lore that have developed with no linguistic basis.

An exercise modeled on traffic rules encourages effective and considerate class discussions.

Technical writing, linked to a business, helps nonscience majors understand the demands of the professional writing world.

This article describes how students gain the confidence and skill to write personal essays by practicing their natural ability to tell their own stories orally in social situations.

Discussing and writing about The Breakfast Club can lead composition students to assess their own educational identities and ongoing growth as writers.