Teaching English in the Two-Year College - Volume 38, Issue 1, 2010

Teacher-assessors face particular challenges when working with portfolios containing both revised and timed student writing.

A research project into the grammar and usage error patterns among students at our university showed that error can be located on a rhetorical map within texts, writers, readers, and their social contexts; this perspective helps students and teachers deal productively with error.

This article presents the results of a case study of civic discourse and explores whether and how composition classrooms can prepare students for active and informed participation in civic discourse.

This article describes a process of building on students’ views about academic discourse to talk about issues of privilege, access, and the banking concept of education, thus providing a constructive and organic approach to making social justice issues relevant for students’ lives.

When profiling a place, students typically struggle to generate an effective thesis; a class session that includes carefully tailored prompts for invention can help.

This article examines the social influences that affect how women perform in a composition course focused on first-year students. We know that society encourages young women to be good girls, but does being a good girl lead to being a good student? Can first-year composition assignments illuminate gender gaps at play in higher education?

Reviewed are: Against Schooling: For an Education That Matters by Stanley Aronowitz, Reviewed by Keith Kroll Save the World on Your Own Time by Stanley Fish, Reviewed by Dianna Rockwell Shank Teaching the Novel across the Curriculum: A Handbook for Educators, edited by Colin C. Irvine, Reviewed by Jeff Sommers Strange Terrain: A Poetry Handbook for the Reluctant Reader, by Alice B. Fogel The Poetry Toolkit: The Essential Guide to Studying Poetry, by Rhian Williams, Reviewed by James D. Sullivan Beyond Words: Reading and Writing in the Visual Age, by John Ruszkiewicz, Daniel Anderson, and Christy Friend, Reviewed by Douglas Yates