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Critical Expressivism: Theory and Practice in the Composition Classroom
Tara Roeder; Roseanne Gatto · WAC Clearinghouse · 2014
Critical Expressivism is an ambitious attempt to re-appropriate intellectual territory that has more often been charted by its detractors than by its proponents. Indeed, as Peter Elbow observes in his contribution to this volume, "As far as I can tell, the term 'expressivist' was coined and used only by people who wanted a word for people they disapproved of and wanted to discredit." The editors and contributors to this collection invite readers to join them in a new conversation, one informed by "a belief that the term expressivism continues to have a vitally important function in our field."
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Chinese Rhetoric and Writing: An Introduction for Language Teachers
Andy Kirkpatrick; Zhichang Xu · WAC Clearinghouse · 2012
The authors of Chinese Rhetoric and Writing offer a response to the argument that Chinese students' academic writing in English is influenced by "culturally nuanced rhetorical baggage that is uniquely Chinese and hard to eradicate." Noting that this argument draws from "an essentially monolingual and Anglo-centric view of writing," they point out that the rapid growth in the use of English worldwide calls for "a radical reassessment of what English is in today's world." The result is a book that provides teachers of writing, and in particular those involved in the teaching of English academic writing to Chinese students, an introduction to key stages in the development of Chinese rhetoric, a wide-ranging field with a history of several thousand years. Understanding this important rhetorical tradition provides a strong foundation for assessing and responding to the writing of this growing group of students.
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Beyond Dichotomy: Synergizing Writing Center and Classroom Pedagogies
Steven Corbett · WAC Clearinghouse · 2015
How closely can or should writing centers and writing classrooms collaborate? Beyond Dichotomy explores how research on peer tutoring one-to-one and in small groups can inform our work with students in writing centers and other tutoring programs, as well as in writing courses and classrooms. These multi-method (including rhetorical and discourse analyses and ethnographic and case-study) investigations center on several course-based tutoring (CBT) partnerships at two universities. Rather than practice separately in the center or in the classroom, rather than seeing teacher here and tutor there and student over there, CBT asks all participants in the dynamic drama of teaching and learning to consider the many possible means of connecting synergistically. This book offers the "more-is-more" value of designing more peer-to-peer learning situations for developmental and multicultural writers, and a more elaborate view of what happens in these peer-centered learning environments. It offers important implications—especially of directive and nondirective tutoring strategies and methods—for peer-to-peer learning and one-to-one tutoring and conferencing for all teachers and learners of writing.
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Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future
Asao Inoue · WAC Clearinghouse · 2015
In Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies, Asao B. Inoue theorizes classroom writing assessment as a complex system that is "more than" its interconnected elements. To explain how and why antiracist work in the writing classroom is vital to literacy learning, Inoue incorporates ideas about the white racial habitus that informs dominant discourses in the academy and other contexts. Inoue helps teachers understand the unintended racism that often occurs when teachers do not have explicit antiracist agendas in their assessments. Drawing on his own teaching and classroom inquiry, Inoue offers a heuristic for developing and critiquing writing assessment ecologies that explores seven elements of any writing assessment ecology: power, parts, purposes, people, processes, products, and places.
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Teaching Autoethnography: Personal Writing in the Classroom
Melissa Tombro · Open SUNY · 2016
Teaching Autoethnography: Personal Writing in the Classroom is dedicated to the practice of immersive ethnographic and autoethnographic writing that encourages authors to participate in the communities about which they write. This book draws not only on critical qualitative inquiry methods such as interview and observation, but also on theories and sensibilities from creative writing and performance studies, which encourage self-reflection and narrative composition. Concepts from qualitative inquiry studies, which examine everyday life, are combined with approaches to the creation of character and scene to help writers develop engaging narratives that examine chosen subcultures and the author's position in relation to her research subjects. The book brings together a brief history of first-person qualitative research and writing from the past forty years, examining the evolution of nonfiction and qualitative approaches in relation to the personal essay. A selection of recent student writing in the genre as well as reflective student essays on the experience of conducting research in the classroom is presented in the context of exercises for coursework and beyond. Also explored in detail are guidelines for interviewing and identifying subjects and techniques for creating informed sketches and images that engage the reader. This book provides approaches anyone can use to explore their communities and write about them first-hand. The methods presented can be used for a single assignment in a larger course or to guide an entire semester through many levels and varieties of informed personal writing.
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Writing Guide with Handbook
Michelle Bachelor Robinson; Maria Jerskey; featuring Toby Fulwiler; Michelle Baker · OpenStax, Rice University
Writing Guide with Handbook aligns to the goals, topics, and objectives of many first-year writing and composition courses. It is organized according to relevant genres, and focuses on the writing process, effective writing practices or strategies—including graphic organizers, writing frames, and word banks to support visual learning—and conventions of usage and style. The text includes an editing and documentation handbook, which provides information on grammar and mechanics, common usage errors, and citation styles. Writing Guide with Handbook breaks down barriers in the field of composition by offering an inviting and inclusive approach to students of all intersectional identities. To meet this goal, the text creates a reciprocal relationship between everyday rhetoric and the evolving world of academia. Writing Guide with Handbook builds on students’ life experiences and their participation in rhetorical communities within the familiar contexts of personal interaction and social media. The text seeks to extend these existing skills by showing students how to construct a variety of compelling compositions in a variety of formats, situations, and contexts. The authors conceived and developed Writing Guide with Handbook in 2020; its content and learning experiences reflect the instructional, societal, and individual challenges students have faced. The authors invite students and instructors to practice invitational discussions even as they engage in verbal and written argument. Instructors will be empowered to emphasize meaning and voice and to teach empathy as a rhetorical strategy. Students will be empowered to negotiate their identities and their cultures through language as they join us in writing, discovering, learning, and creating.
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Leyendas y arquetipos del Romanticismo español
Robert Sanders · Portland State University Library · 2017
Leyendas y arquetipos del Romanticismo español is an introduction to nineteenth-century Spanish literature with a thematic focus on legends and archetypes. It presents Romanticism in the context of nineteenth-century literary and social movements. It is designed as a first anthology for intermediate Spanish students at American universities. Although brief, it includes poetry, drama in verse and short story. The works have been selected for their literary interest and the social importance of their themes. They are all by canonical authors. New for the Second Edition: over 4000 vocabulary, historical and cultural annotations to facilitate reading and comprehension. The Prologue and chapter introductions use circumlocution to facilitate comprehension, and include concrete examples of the concepts presented. The author biographies are brief and should not be used as study materials, but rather as starting points for students' own exploration. Many students prefer following their own interests when researching author biographies, and the internet makes accessible a plethora of bibliographic resources, such as the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, the Centro Virtual Cervantes of the Cervantes Institute, or the Biblioteca Digital Hispánica of the Spanish National Library. Student participation in the selection of topics and sources emphasizes the investigative process and leads to richer class discussions.
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Composing Ourselves and our World
Elizabeth Burrows, Angela Fowler, Heath Fowler, and Amy Locklear · Auburn University at Montgomery
In the contents: 01: Part I- The Composition Process · 02: Part II- Research Writing
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International Advances in Writing Research - Cultures, Places, Measures
Bazerman et al. · LibreTexts
In the contents: 6.04: Chapter 23. Critical Acts in Published and Unpublished Research Article Introductions in English- A Look into the Writing for Publication Process · 6.05: Towards an Integrative Unit of Analysis- Regulation Episodes in Expert Research Article Writing
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ENGL 206: World Literature II
Kim Allen Gleed · Harrisburg Area Community College
In the contents: 20.01: My House Is the Red Earth
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Rhetoric and Composition
Becky Rudd · Citrus College
In the contents: 6.01: Parts of Speech · 6.02: Parts of the Sentence
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The OER Guide to Media Writing
Mark Poepsel · Southern Illinois University
In the contents: 1.01: Art of Clarity - Sentence Structure and Parts of Speech · 2.05: Art of Clarity - Paragraphs · 3.04: Art of Clarity - Quote Selection and Formatting
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Basic Reading and Writing
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
In the contents: 7.34: Outcome- Other Parts of Speech · 7.37: Text- Articles · 7.38: Self Check- Other Parts of Speech
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ENG-001A: Composition and Reading
Jill Bonds · Coalinga College
In the contents: 1.06: Writing Paragraphs (Part 1) · 1.07: Writing Paragraphs (Part 2) · 2.3.01: Post-Secondary Reading and Writing (Part 1)
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Grammar Anatomy (Brehe)
Steven Brehe · University of North Georgia
In the contents: 1.03: Get Tense Verb Tense Principal Parts and Irregular Verbs · 1.17: Zowie Interjections and the Eight Parts of Speech · 1.18: Those Verbing Verbals Gerunds and Participles
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Writing in College - From Competence to Excellence
Amy Guptill · The College at Brockport, SUNY
In the contents: 4.3: Origins and Anatomy of a Journal Article · 4.4: Finding Tier 1 Sources: Article Databases
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Writers' Handbook
LibreTexts
In the contents: 3.03: Articulating Multiple Sides of an Issue · 9.03: Incorporating Images Charts and Graphs
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English Composition I: Rhetorical Methods–Based
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
In the contents: 1.17: Comparative Chart of Writing Strategies · 4.04: Sixty-nine Cents by Gary Shteyngart
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The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature
Kristen O'Dell Brumfield · Onondaga Community College
In the contents: 2.09: Chapter XXXII- The Indians Give Us the Hearts of Deer (Excerpt) · 6.05: Introduction to The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) (2017) · 6.06: Introduction to The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) (2016)
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Writing, Reading, and College Success: A First-Year Composition Course for All Learners
Athena Kashyap & Erika Dyquisto · City College of San Francisco
In the contents: 02: Writing and the Art of Rhetoric · 2.04: The Art of Rhetoric · 6.03: Working with Sources- Part I