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Rhetoric and Composition

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City University of New York (CUNY)

Publications and Research

2020

Composition

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Is Feedback On Grammar Harmful Or Helpful? Questionable Answers And Unanswered Questions, Kristen Di Gennaro, Monika Ekiert Oct 2020

Is Feedback On Grammar Harmful Or Helpful? Questionable Answers And Unanswered Questions, Kristen Di Gennaro, Monika Ekiert

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Current composition practice relies on a decades-old summary of research concluding that a focus on grammar in students’ writing is useless, or even harmful. Conversely, hundreds of recent studies from the fields of second-language writing and applied linguistics claim to provide evidence of the benefits to providing feedback on grammar in students’ writing. This article summarizes the arguments for and against such feedback and problematizes the results of previous research by describing a quasi-experimental study measuring the effects, both positive and negative, of providing students with grammar feedback on their writing. Results show that, while feedback on specific grammatical forms …


Creating And Using Open Educational Resources (Oer) In Reading And Writing Classes, Christine E. Hutchins Mar 2020

Creating And Using Open Educational Resources (Oer) In Reading And Writing Classes, Christine E. Hutchins

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Creating her own assignments using openly licensed course materials allows this professor and her students to be more creative and to take greater advantage of digital resources.


Making Translinguality And Transnationality Visible, Heather M. Robinson, Jonathan Hall, Nela Navarro Mar 2020

Making Translinguality And Transnationality Visible, Heather M. Robinson, Jonathan Hall, Nela Navarro

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Exploring the roles of pluralistic linguistic and transnational identities at the university level, this book offers a novel approach to translanguaging by highlighting students' perspectives, voices and agency as integral to the subject. Providing an original reconsideration of the impact of translanguaging, this book examines both transnationality and translinguality as ubiquitous phenomena that affect students' lives.