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The Teaching Zone: Square Pegs In Round Holes, Cheryl Hogue Smith Jan 2021

The Teaching Zone: Square Pegs In Round Holes, Cheryl Hogue Smith

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This article explores six years of student data to discover why students who appear not to have read a lengthy book are able to execute a successful paper designed around that text.


"All Truly Great Thoughts Are Conceived While Walking": Academic Inclusion Through Multimodal Walkabouts, Cheryl Hogue Smith Jan 2019

"All Truly Great Thoughts Are Conceived While Walking": Academic Inclusion Through Multimodal Walkabouts, Cheryl Hogue Smith

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This article explores the value of including creative assignments in the composition class-room. Specifically, it demonstrates how a multimodal assignment can help struggling students develop the confidence to succeed on creative assignments and on subsequent more traditional academic assignments.


Dialogue In The Margins, Cheryl Hogue Smith, Nicole Callahan Jan 2013

Dialogue In The Margins, Cheryl Hogue Smith, Nicole Callahan

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This article demonstrates how, through our conversations about holding dialogues in the margins of student papers, we realized that there can sometimes be an advantage to moving students into the margins, where their marginalia constitute a productive and active dialogue about their own thinking.


The Customer At The Brothel: Student Enlightenment Through ‘Degenerate Art, Cheryl Hogue Smith, Maya Jimenez Jan 2012

The Customer At The Brothel: Student Enlightenment Through ‘Degenerate Art, Cheryl Hogue Smith, Maya Jimenez

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This article explores how community college students learned to engage with art and succeed in a learning community class comprised of first-year composition and art history.