Teaching English in the Two-Year College - Volume 37, Issue 3, 2010

This essay illustrates why compositionists should conceive of multimodal writing assignments as having wide-ranging and forward-thinking parameters, in order to invite the greatest possible range of student responses; it also suggests the directions we should take when evaluating such work.

Teaching the Holocaust in a first-year writing course using photographs of the Shoah as a primary resource authorizes students to engage in research and writing that provides a place of empathetic, dignified witnessing for those who were denied the possibility of realizing the lives they were meant to live.

First-year composition students engage with visual rhetoric via interpretation and analysis through a trip to a local art museum for the first essay assignment and through an exploration of photography for the second essay assignment.

This article presents a consideration of how students’ existing information-seeking behaviors affect traditional methods of teaching library research in first-year writing courses and offers an alternative method that uses both library and popular Internet search tools.

Instead of penalizing students for using Wikipedia as their go-to research source, writing faculty should encourage students to critically analyze this online encyclopedia in order to teach them how to think critically about all texts, online and in print.

This article promotes the use and study of blogs in the composition classroom in order to motivate students toward academic writing.

College and high school writing teachers participated in an online assessment activity to build common understanding of standards.

For faculty seeking to engage students in inquiry-based, emergent, and primary research in first-year composition courses, Google Documents provides both an efficient and effective means.

An Introduction to Game Studies: Games in Culture, by Frans Mäyrä Reviewed by John Reilly Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia, by Robert E. Cummings Reviewed by Kip Strasma