Teaching English in the Two-Year College - Volume 35, Issue 4, 2008

This article describes the Student Tutor Education Program (STEP) at Westchester Community College, which identifies and recruits potential future college English teachers at the community college level while they serve as peer writing tutors, with benefits to the entire college community as well as the teaching profession in general.

This analysis of the technology and pedagogy section of the TYCA national survey of writing programs covers online and onsite uses of technologies, multimodal essays and electronic portfolios, pedagogical training in the uses of technologies, intersections of training and curriculum innovation (i.e., electronic portfolios and multimodal compositions), and two-year college satisfaction levels with the integration of technology.

This essay aims to explore the widely varying terminology associated with a typical classroom activity, peer review.

The article argues for raising class consciousness among community college students and describes how the author employs the writings of Charles Bukowski to reach an ethnically diverse, but predominantly working-class student population.

As universities continue to increase the number of online courses being offered, new instructors can be better prepared by adapting some traditional instructional methods for the virtual composition classroom.

Paul Bodmer works in the Washington, DC office of NCTE, where he represents the Council on higher education issues in English studies and literacy education. Here he shares with TETYC readers the insights he has learned on the job.

The End of Composition Studies, by David Smit, Reviewed by Jeffrey Klausman and by Jeffrey Andelora Response to Jeffrey Andelora’s Review, by Jeffrey Klausman Response to Jeffrey Klausman’s Review, by Jeffrey Andelora Rewriting: How to Do Things with Texts, by Joseph Harris, Reviewed by Cheri Lemieux Spiegel I-Claim: Visualizing Argument, CD-ROM, by Patrick Clauss, Reviewed by Linda Barro I•Cite: Visualizing Sources, CD-ROM, by Doug Downs, Reviewed by Sue (Peters) Henderson.