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Readers And Writers In The Ancient Novel [Review], Lawrence Kim
Readers And Writers In The Ancient Novel [Review], Lawrence Kim
Lawrence Kim
Are there still new and worthwhile things to be said about the ancient novel? There has certainly been an explosion in publications; the volume under review is the twelfth Ancient Narrative Supplement to appear since 2002, and more are on the way, as the multi-volume proceedings of the fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel begin publication in 2011. The eighteen articles reviewed here were originally delivered at a smaller conference in 2007 at Rethymno, and it was the organizers’ hope that the contributors would “tease out…new perspectives” on the topic of “readers and writers” by focusing on those “ …
Using Games To Make Something: Of Our Students, Our Pedagogies, Our Field. A Review Essay Of Gee & Hayes (2011), Squire (2011), Steinkuehler Et Al (2012), And Thomas & Brown (2011), Carly Finseth
Carly Finseth
If there’s one thing that writing instructors are known for it’s innovation. Compositionists, because of our connection between academia and industry, the humanistic and the technical, the creative and the practical, are often some of the first to explore and adopt new technologies. In this review essay, I introduce how games and digital technologies can help our students “make” new thing. Understanding how games can link with literary practices, multimodal composition, creativity, problem solving, critical thinking, and more can help researchers in rhetoric and composition make important contributions to our field: Make games with the knowledge of what actually works …
Dialogues Of A Discipline [Two Book Reviews], Stevens Amidon
Dialogues Of A Discipline [Two Book Reviews], Stevens Amidon
Stevens R. Amidon Dr.
No abstract provided.
Exploring Multiple Intelligences In The Writing Center, Stevens Amidon, Libby Miles, Mary Gormely, Christine Volpe
Exploring Multiple Intelligences In The Writing Center, Stevens Amidon, Libby Miles, Mary Gormely, Christine Volpe
Stevens R. Amidon Dr.
No abstract provided.
Using Organizational Writing To Engage Engineering And Business Students, Stevens Amidon
Using Organizational Writing To Engage Engineering And Business Students, Stevens Amidon
Stevens R. Amidon Dr.
No abstract provided.
Academic Writing, Emily Purser
Under New Management: Whiteness In Post-Apartheid South African Life Writing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Under New Management: Whiteness In Post-Apartheid South African Life Writing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Tony Simoes da Silva
Alfred J. Lopez begins his introduction to postcolonial Whiteness: A Critical Reader on Race and Empire by stating "Whiteness is not, yet we continue for many reasons to act as though it is" (1). He is especially interested in "what happens to whiteness after empire," and proposes that it be understood as a dynamic relation of power. Despite the critical scrutiny it has attracted from whiteness studies, the racial category retains much of its ideological force. "The concept of whiteness as a cultural hegemon," Lopez argues, is manifest in "its lingering, if somewhat latent, hegemonic influence over much of the …
Narrating Redemption: Life Writing And Whiteness In The New South Africa: Gillian Slovo's Every Secret Thing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Narrating Redemption: Life Writing And Whiteness In The New South Africa: Gillian Slovo's Every Secret Thing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Tony Simoes da Silva
No abstract provided.
Longing, Belonging And Self-Making In White Zimbabwean Life Writing: Peter Godwin's When A Crocodile Eats The Sun , Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Longing, Belonging And Self-Making In White Zimbabwean Life Writing: Peter Godwin's When A Crocodile Eats The Sun , Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Tony Simoes da Silva
No abstract provided.
Embodied Genealogies And Gendered Violence In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Writing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Embodied Genealogies And Gendered Violence In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Writing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Tony Simoes da Silva
This essay examines two recent novels by the Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,Purple Hibiscus ([2003] 2005) andHalf a YellowSun (2006), placing themfirst in a dialogue with each other, and more broadly with selected Nigerian writing on the Biafra conflict. Arguing with Adesanmi that Adichie belongs to a ‘third generation’ of African literary work, it traces the novels’ work of historical revisionism through gendered and embodied discourses of pain and violence. Adichie returns the reader to an aesthetics of excess firmly grounded on potently disturbing images of the ‘body in pain’, in Elaine Scarry’s memorable phrase (1983): the battered, bruised and …
Aqa A2 Spanish Practice Exam Papers - Listening, Reading And Writing - Speaking (Unit 3-4), Alfredo Herrero De Haro
Aqa A2 Spanish Practice Exam Papers - Listening, Reading And Writing - Speaking (Unit 3-4), Alfredo Herrero De Haro
Alfredo Herrero de Haro
This resource contains three practice papers. For each paper there is a CD, a mark scheme and the transcripts for the passage for the listening exercies. These practice papers have been written to help you and your students prepare for the examination for Unit 3 of the AQA A2 Spanish specification for teaching from September 2009. AQA A2 Spanish Practice Exam Papers 3 practice papers for Unit 3 and four papers for Unit 4, covering all 4 skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. Everything you need: •Write-on papers which look like the real exam papers •Audio CD and Transcripts of …
Creative Text-Based Summarization And Pre-Writing Engagements For Diverse Learners, Susan Adams
Creative Text-Based Summarization And Pre-Writing Engagements For Diverse Learners, Susan Adams
Susan Adams
Presentation at the 2012 Indiana Teachers of Writing Annual Conference, Noblesville, IN, October 13, 2012.
Working Within And Against Labels, Kate Mangelsdorf
Working Within And Against Labels, Kate Mangelsdorf
Kate Mangelsdorf
No abstract provided.
Weaving Workplace Writing Into The English Classroom, Bruce Robbins
Weaving Workplace Writing Into The English Classroom, Bruce Robbins
Bruce Robbins
Often the question surrounding workplace literacy is not so much whether English teachers should bring some workplace reading and writing into the curriculum, but how to do so in an already overcrowded curriculum. Robbins suggests some ways that teachers might weave workplace literacy into the existing fabric of the classroom without displacing the important things they teach now.
Get Off To An Auspicious Start, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Get Off To An Auspicious Start, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Hal Blythe
No abstract provided.
Of Blockheads And Elitists, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Of Blockheads And Elitists, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Hal Blythe
No abstract provided.
Location, Location, Location, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Location, Location, Location, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Hal Blythe
No abstract provided.
Supporting Good Writing Instruction: The Hoosier Writing Project, Susan Adams, Steve Fox, Herb Budden
Supporting Good Writing Instruction: The Hoosier Writing Project, Susan Adams, Steve Fox, Herb Budden
Susan Adams
Presentation at the 2012 Indiana Student Achievement Institute (InSAI) Conference.
The Ties That Bind, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
The Ties That Bind, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Hal Blythe
Discusses the bond between the readers and characters of a story. Information on how to create a character for a story; Background on some characters of a story, including Lady Macbeth in the book 'Heart of Darkness,' by Joseph Conrad; Details of some specific character traits that create a bond with readers.
Making Connections, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Making Connections, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Hal Blythe
Last summer as instructors at a creative-writing conference, we had an experience that made us better writers. While critiquing a promising piece of fiction, we became frustrated because we couldn't put our finger on why the story didn't quite work. The tale, which centered around a young soldier's baptismal firefight in Vietnam, at first seemed solid. The main character was believable, the setting was described in gritty realism, and the plot had a beginning, middle, and end. But although the story was technically correct, it didn't really capture our interest. We found we couldn't get involved with the writer's grunt …
How To Find And Fix 'Plotholes': Watch For Common Problems That Can Sidetrack Your Novel, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
How To Find And Fix 'Plotholes': Watch For Common Problems That Can Sidetrack Your Novel, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Hal Blythe
This article offers advice for writer on preventing major plotholes in fiction. Selection of information to be revealed earlier in story; Establishment of credibility of facts; Link of plot events with the motivation of the main character.
More Than A Place, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
More Than A Place, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Hal Blythe
Many stories fail to capture the reader's interest even though they have a clear point of view, well-rounded characters and an interesting plot. What's missing? One key element that writers frequently overlook is setting. They treat it merely as backdrop.
Writing As Cultural Negotiation: Suneeta Peres Da Costa And Alice Pung, Wenche Ommundsen
Writing As Cultural Negotiation: Suneeta Peres Da Costa And Alice Pung, Wenche Ommundsen
Wenche Ommundsen
Mina Pereira, the narrator of Suneeta Peres da Costa's novel Homework, is born with feelers on top of her head:small protuberances, or antennae, which grow bogger at times of emotional stress. 'She might be a little bit sensitive, thats all' (Peres da Costa, 1999:5), her parents explain, defending their daughter against insensitive strangers accusing her of being an alien, and extraterrestrial, a mutant. Mina is sensitive, as is the young protagonist of Alice Pung's autobiographical narrative Unpolished Gem, sensitive to their difference as reflected in the eyes and behaviour of schoolmates and friends, sensitive, in particular, to cultural …
Auslit: Resource For Australian Literature - Australian Multicultural Writers, Wenche Ommundsen
Auslit: Resource For Australian Literature - Australian Multicultural Writers, Wenche Ommundsen
Wenche Ommundsen
No abstract provided.
Writing As Migration: Brian Castro, Multiculturalism And The Politics Of Identity, Wenche Ommundsen
Writing As Migration: Brian Castro, Multiculturalism And The Politics Of Identity, Wenche Ommundsen
Wenche Ommundsen
No abstract provided.
Work In Progress: Multicultural Writing In Australia, Wenche Ommundsen
Work In Progress: Multicultural Writing In Australia, Wenche Ommundsen
Wenche Ommundsen
Multiculturalism, write Pnina Werbner, is 'an important rhetoric and an impossible practice'. My morning news paper on Australia Day 2006 reminded me of just how important, and how impossible, Australian multiculturalism remains three decades after its inception. 'PM claims victory wars', read the front-page headline. The article, a report on John Howard's address to the National Press Club, details the Prime Minister's retreat from the 'excesses of multiculturalism' and the 'black armband' view of history associated with the Keating Labor government (1991-96), and his conviction that the 'divisive, phoney debate about national identity' has come to an end, replaced by …
Bastard Moon: Essays On Chinese-Australian Writing, Wenche Ommundsen
Bastard Moon: Essays On Chinese-Australian Writing, Wenche Ommundsen
Wenche Ommundsen
No abstract provided.
From "Hello Freedom" To "Fuck You Australia": Recent Chinese-Australian Writing, Wenche Ommundsen
From "Hello Freedom" To "Fuck You Australia": Recent Chinese-Australian Writing, Wenche Ommundsen
Wenche Ommundsen
No abstract provided.
Appreciating Difference: Writing Postcolonial Literary History, Wenche Ommundsen, B. Edwards
Appreciating Difference: Writing Postcolonial Literary History, Wenche Ommundsen, B. Edwards
Wenche Ommundsen
No abstract provided.
‘This Story Does Not Begin On A Boat’: What Is Australian About Asian Australian Writing?, Wenche Ommundsen
‘This Story Does Not Begin On A Boat’: What Is Australian About Asian Australian Writing?, Wenche Ommundsen
Wenche Ommundsen
With reference to recent debates about the politics of representation, this paper argues that a profound ambivalence about identity, and particularly about Asian Australian identity, is a common characteristic that marks this writing as specifically Australian. Tracing cultural contexts from the 'pathologies' of Australian multicultural debates to other transnational literary traditions, the paper issues examples from the writing of Brain Castro, Alice Pung, Ouyang Yu, Nam Le, Shaun Tan, and Tom Cho to speculate on the emergence of a new and distinct phase of transnational writing in Australia.