Strategies for Teaching First-Year Composition

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Pub. Date: 2002-02-01
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Table of Contents

Introduction xv
Acknowledgments xxxiii
Contexts for Teaching Writing
1(45)
The Departmental Perspective
2(9)
Roger Gilles
Composition, Community, and Curriculum: A Letter to New Composition Teachers
11(6)
Geoffrey Chase
A Supervisor's Perspective
17(4)
David Franke
A Cultural Perspective: Teaching Composition at a Historically Black University
21(13)
Teresa M. Redd
An Experienced TA's Reflections on the TA Experience
34(4)
Judy Collins
Writing and Learning to Write: A Modest Bit of History and Theory for Writing Students
38(6)
Douglas D. Hesse
The Importance of Framing the Writing Classroom as a Space of Public Discourse
44(2)
Michael Stancliff
``Black people tend to talk eubonics'': Race and Curricular Diversity in Higher Education
46(22)
Austin Jackson
Geneva Smitherman
Rhetorical Situations and Assignment Sheets
51(2)
David Sudol
Meeting of Narratives, Meeting of Minds: WPAs, TAs, and Transferring Independence
53(9)
Rachelle M. Smith
Douglas Downs
Students as Audience
62(3)
Ruth Overman Fischer
Memo from a Provost
65(3)
Elaine P. Maimon
Seeing the Forest and the Trees of Curriculum
68(29)
Teaching in an Idealized Outcomes-Based First-Year Writing Program
69(20)
Irvin Peckham
Constructing Bridges between High School and College Writing
89(3)
Marguerite Helmers
Teaching Writing as a Process
92(5)
Davida Charney
Constructing Syllabus Materials
97(36)
On Syllabi
98(4)
Victor Villanueva
Departmental Syllabus: Experience in Writing
102(12)
Gregory Clark
An Honors Course in First-Year Composition: Classical Rhetoric and Contemporary Writing
114(19)
Marvin Diogenes
Constructing Effective Writing Assignments
133(48)
Sequencing Writing Projects in Any Composition Class Penn State University Composition Program Handbook
134(3)
Autobiography: The Rhetorical Efficacy of Self-Reflection/Articulation
137(6)
Bonnie Lenore Kyburz
Deliberative Writing Graduate Teaching Assistant Handbook, Michigan Technological University
143(2)
Rhetorical Analysis: Terms of Contention
145(5)
Andy Crockett
Assignment Prompt
150(2)
Edward A. Kearns
Profile Assignment
152(12)
Sarah T. Duerden
Jeanne Garland
Christine Everhart Helfers
Picture Exchange: Sharing Images and Ideas in First-Year Composition
164(3)
Donna Reiss
Reflecting on Journal Writing
167(4)
Lisa Ede
Role-Playing as a Writing-to-Learn Activity
171(5)
Mary M. Salibrici
Writing-to-Learn Prompts
176(5)
Edith M. Baker
Guiding Students to Construct Reflective Portfolios
181(22)
A Writing Portfolio Assignment
182(4)
Phyllis Mentzell Ryder
Portfolio Requirements for Writing and Discourse
186(3)
C. Beth Burch
The Importance of Student Portfolio Presentations in Composition Courses
189(6)
Lisa Cahill
Group Portfolio Presentations
195(8)
Rochelle Rodrigo Blanchard
Amy D'Antonio
Lisa Cahill
Strategies for Course Management
203(27)
Fostering Classroom Civility
204(8)
Lynn Langer Meeks
Joyce Kinkead
Keith VanBezooyen
Erin Edwards
Course Management Guidelines
212(4)
Rebecca Moore Howard
Facilitating Class Discussion
216(3)
Margaret M. Lyday
A Structure for a Successful Class Session
219(1)
David A. Jolliffe
A Strategy for Student-Led Writing and Discussion
220(4)
Julie Robinson
Strategies for Discouraging Plagiarism
224(2)
Deirdre Mahoney
Working with Groups Michigan Technological University Web Page
226(2)
Discussing Time Commitments with Students
228(2)
Deirdre Mahoney
Teaching Invention
230(59)
Teaching Invention
231(3)
Sharon Crowlev
Invention Activity
234(2)
Theresa Enos
Invention as a Strategy of Revision
236(4)
Roberta A. Binkley
A Model for Invention
240(9)
David Sudol
To Whom It Might Actually Concern: Letter Writing as Invention in First-Year Composition
249(3)
Lenore L. Brady
Invention Activity Late in the Writing Process
252(10)
Vicky Campo
Writing Exercise-Connections
262(5)
Susan J. Allspaw
Exploring Topics: Rationale for a Class Exercise
267(2)
Michael Stancliff
Teaching ``Organization'': Transition Moments, Cueing Systems, and Modes of Coherence
269(20)
Michael Murphy
Orchestrating Peer Response Activities
289(36)
Approaches to Productive Peer Review
290(11)
Fiona Paton
Reflection on Peer-Review Practices
301(6)
Lisa Cahill
Using Group Conferences to Respond to Essays in Progress
307(11)
Susan K. Miller
A Possible Sequence of Peer Group Responses to a Student's Emerging Text-Autobiographical Essay
318(7)
Duane Roen
Responding to In-Process Work to Promote Revision
325(61)
Less Is More in Response to Student Writing
326(3)
Clyde Moneyhun
One Dimension of Response to Student Writing: How Students Construct Their Critics
329(9)
Carol Rutz
Another Kind of Teacher-Student Talk: Conversational Responding and Revising
338(17)
Seth L. Kahn
Guidelines for Responding to Student Writing
355(11)
Richard Straub
Why Student Conferences Are Important
366(1)
Michael Stancliff
Expanding the Uses of Writing Centers
367(5)
Jasna R. Shannon
Writing Center Consultations
372(14)
Rebecca L. Jackson
Responding to and Evaluating Polished Writing
386(51)
Developing Rubrics for Instruction and Evaluation
387(14)
Chris M. Anson
Deanna P. Dannels
What Makes Writing ``Good''?/What Makes a ``Good'' Writer?
401(3)
Ruth Overman Fischer
Contexts and Criteria for Evaluating Student Writing
404(18)
Jane E. Hindman
Portfolio Standards for English 101
422(10)
Douglas D. Hesse
Handling the Confromative Conference
432(3)
Ruth Overman Fischer
Establishing Weighted Criteria for Evaluating Writing
435(2)
Karen Vaught-Alexander
Teaching Writing with Technology
437(57)
Overviews and Impressions of Teaching with Technology
438(1)
Overcoming the Unknown
438(2)
Adelheid Thieme
Asynchronous Online Teaching
440(13)
Donald Wolff
Suggestions for the Computer-Mediated Classroom
453(1)
Class Peer Review in a Computer-Mediated Classroom: Using Classroom Projection Capabilities and E-mail Messages
453(5)
Laura L. Bush
Web Page ``Place'' Assignment and Analysis Assignment
458(6)
Patricia R. Webb-Peterson
Using the Web to Enhance Students' Critical Literacy Skills
464(6)
Sibylle Gruber
Working in an Electronic Classroom
470(9)
Julia V. Gousseva
Teaching Composition with International Students in an Electronic Classroom
479(3)
Viktorija Todorovska
Approaches to Using Computer Technology When You Don't Teach in an Electronic Classroom
482(12)
Timothy D. Ray
Constructing a Teaching Portfolio
494(28)
Teaching-Portfolio Potential and Concerns: A Brief Review
495(6)
Camille Newton
Thinking about Your Teaching Portfolio
501(4)
C. Beth Burch
A Philosophy of Teaching: Backseat Driving
505(3)
Renee T. Thomas
Statement of Teaching Philosophy
508(3)
Amy D'Antonio
Reflection on Teaching
511(2)
Neil A. Waldrop
Statement of Teaching Philosophy
513(2)
Jennifer A. Miller
Teaching Philosophy
515(7)
Laura L. Nutten
Teaching Matters of Grammar, Usage, and Style
522(47)
A Cautionary Introduction
523(4)
Keith Rhodes
And the Question Is This-``What Lessons Can We, as Writers, Take from This Reading for Our Own Writing?''
527(9)
Elizabeth Hodges
Empowering Sentences
536(10)
Nicholas J. Karolides
Teaching Style
546(4)
Karen Vaught-Alexander
Parallel Structures
550(9)
Emily Golson
Sector Analysis
559(7)
Patricia Licklider
Encouraging Editing
566(3)
Edward A. Kearns
Teaching Research Skills
569(44)
First-Year Composition as an Introduction to Academic Discourse
570(13)
M. J. Braun
Sarah Prineas
Teaching Research Skills in the First-Year Composition Class
583(17)
Mark Gellis
Situating Research: Writing Research Proposals in First-Year Composition
600(9)
Joyce A. Simutis
An Assignment for Encouraging Research
609(2)
Jeanne Gunner
Citing Ourselves: Students as Specialists and Scholars
611(2)
Donna Reiss
Index 613(12)
Editors 625

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