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Reclaiming Writing Placement, Heidi Estrem, Dawn Shepherd, Samantha Sturman
Reclaiming Writing Placement, Heidi Estrem, Dawn Shepherd, Samantha Sturman
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
Writing assessment research has long described the harmful effects of using standardized test scores for writing placement. Now, national higher education reform efforts are critiquing the use of these tests as well. In this article, we explore how external pressures in higher education offer new spaces for WPAs to advocate for richer placement processes. We propose that placement is a moment where faculty can and should shape the conversation in order to help others — policymakers and nonprofit agencies involved in remediation reform— see placement anew. Finally, we describe our own locally developed writing placement process as one possible placement …
Faculty Development And A Graduate Course For Pre-Service And In-Service Faculty: Finding And Enacting A Professional Identity In Basic Writing, Karen S. Uehling
Faculty Development And A Graduate Course For Pre-Service And In-Service Faculty: Finding And Enacting A Professional Identity In Basic Writing, Karen S. Uehling
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
This essay considers the critical need for pre-service and in-service basic writing faculty to define and enact a professional identity, specifically within the context of faculty development and graduate course settings. The essay describes a graduate course in teaching basic writing offered primarily online with four in-person weekend workshops. As a result, the course has faculty development implications. Key features of the class are professional mentoring through participation in the Council on Basic Writing discussion list, which offers visibility for students as emerging basic writing professionals; creation of Composition Frequently Asked Questions wiki material on basic writing, which serves as …
Evidentiality In The Uto-Aztecan Languages, Tim Thornes
Evidentiality In The Uto-Aztecan Languages, Tim Thornes
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
Evidentiality, the grammatical expression of the information source for a proposition, is quite diverse among the languages of the Uto-Aztecan family. This diversity is manifest both in the number of terms and associated functional distinctions and in the formal means used to express evidential functions. The purpose of this chapter is to synthesize and describe properties of evidential expression across the family both as a contribution to a typology of evidential systems in the world's languages and to an understanding of how such systems develop in the context of a well-established, but underrepresented and lesser-known, language family.
Freedom And Formlessness: Ben Lerner’S 10:04 And The Affective Historical Present, Ralph Clare
Freedom And Formlessness: Ben Lerner’S 10:04 And The Affective Historical Present, Ralph Clare
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
This essay argues, via Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze, that in distinction to a neoliberal notion of time that overlooks the present moment and past experience, Ben Lerner’s 10:04 posits the existence, in both its form and content, of a kind of freedom not imminent to or beyond the endless presentism and debt-mortgaged non-future of neoliberal time but one that is immanent to and within it. The novel does so by stressing the way in which the actual, lived present, if properly attended to, gives rise to a virtual future containing multiple potentialities that have yet to be realized. What …
The Professor: Room 433, Cheryl Hindrichs
The Professor: Room 433, Cheryl Hindrichs
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
If I should die / in this sterile bed / think not this of me, / me paging listlessly / through one of those magazines that eddy / as flotsam here. / Let me be found / not with an expired glossy / slippery, over my cavernous chest / a surreal bust and brilliant white teeth / arched, grinning / or, perhaps seeming clenched / as if she knew of the skeleton stretched beneath her. / Instead, when the monotone / drops from beating, / beating, / ceases. / Find me with Beckett or Barnes, / Whitman or Woolf. / …
Shared Landscapes, Contested Borders: Locating Disciplinarity In An Ma Program Revision, Whitney Douglas, Heidi Estrem, Kelly Myers, Dawn Shepherd
Shared Landscapes, Contested Borders: Locating Disciplinarity In An Ma Program Revision, Whitney Douglas, Heidi Estrem, Kelly Myers, Dawn Shepherd
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
It is not unusual to consider a discipline spatially as a "space defined or touched by a particular characteristic or force" (Wardle and Downs, this collection, emphasis added). This conceptualization makes visible the metaphor at play here: territories are demarcated and differentiated from neighboring environments by borders that can be more or less visible. In this chapter, we use our experience as faculty members invested in a substantive revision of an MA program revision to explore how that process of delineation opens up new questions about disciplinarity. We sought to create a generous curricular space within an MA degree, …
Theory To Practice: Negotiating Expertise For New Technical Communicators, Jennifer C. Mallette, Megan Gehrke
Theory To Practice: Negotiating Expertise For New Technical Communicators, Jennifer C. Mallette, Megan Gehrke
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
In technical communication, discussions on how to best prepare graduates to meet workplace challenges range from responding to changing technology and occupational needs to focusing on creating flexible workers. Part of this conversation centers on expertise: what kinds of expertise are most valued and how can graduates be trained to be experts? In this article, we explore our field’s understandings of expertise by focusing on a recent master’s graduate and practitioner, Megan. As first an intern then a full-time employee at HP Inc, Megan experienced clashes between the classroom and workplace, which she sought to reconcile. In addition, she also …