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Inquiry And Problem Solving In English Composition: Belonging, Exile And Migration [Composition], Phyllis E. Vanslyck Nov 2019

Inquiry And Problem Solving In English Composition: Belonging, Exile And Migration [Composition], Phyllis E. Vanslyck

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In the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Meanings of War and its Aftermaths Seminar, offered to LaGuardia Faculty in the 2018-19 academic year, we examined numerous critical essays and literary texts, as well as photographs and documentaries, to gain a more nuanced understanding of the ways war continues to inhabit peoples’ lives. When I began participating in this Seminar, I had already planned a first-semester English Composition course based on the theme, Belonging, Exile, and Migration. Thinking about connections between our readings for the NEH Seminar and my course, I was particularly interested in the ways stories of displacement …


Reseña De Manual De Escritura Académica_Prat Ferrer Y Peña Delgado, David Sánchez-Jiménez Oct 2019

Reseña De Manual De Escritura Académica_Prat Ferrer Y Peña Delgado, David Sánchez-Jiménez

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The Making And Silencing Of “Axé-Ocracy” In Brazil: Black Women Writers’ Spiritual, Political And Literary Movement In São Paulo, Sarah S. Ohmer Oct 2019

The Making And Silencing Of “Axé-Ocracy” In Brazil: Black Women Writers’ Spiritual, Political And Literary Movement In São Paulo, Sarah S. Ohmer

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In this article, I will focus on two influential writers from the south of Brazil, Cristiane Sobral who currently lives in Brasília, from Rio de Janeiro, and Conceição Evaristo who currently lives in Rio de Janeiro state, from Minas Gerais. I got to know them in São Paulo in 2015 at a public event: the “Afroétnica Flink! Sampa Festival of Black Thought, Literature and Culture.” I will include references to some of their younger contemporaries such as Raquel Almeida, Jenyffer Nascimento, and Elizandra Souza, all of whom reside in São Paulo, in order to illustrate the Black Brazilian women writers’ …


Freshman Composition, Aquilah Jourdain Aug 2019

Freshman Composition, Aquilah Jourdain

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Re-Visioning Ralph Ellison’S Invisible Man For A Class Of Urban Immigrant Youth, Camille Goodison Jul 2019

Re-Visioning Ralph Ellison’S Invisible Man For A Class Of Urban Immigrant Youth, Camille Goodison

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In this essay, I will explore Ralph Ellison’s 1952 classic novel, Invisible Man, as a text that has contemporary and relatable themes for a modern-day classroom of mostly urban youth. This essay is also a personal journey into how Ellison’s inventive approaches to form helped create a work that lends itself to contemporary reimagining. It asks the question, can Ellison’s interest in creating a living Afro-American literary tradition rooted in the lore of the ‘peasant’ or common folk have contemporary applications? How does Ellison’s belief that everyday folk expression has value hold up for today’s readers? I try to …


Writing For The Social Sciences, Kelly Lemons Apr 2019

Writing For The Social Sciences, Kelly Lemons

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"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.


Writing For The Humanities And Arts, Shamecca A. Harris Jan 2019

Writing For The Humanities And Arts, Shamecca A. Harris

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This dynamic English Composition course asks students to both create and engage with texts, in a variety of forms, that demonstrate how culture and personal experience inform a writer’s work. In this class, students will read and write voraciously about social, political, economic and cultural issues that influence their lived experiences and use the conventions of multiple genres to both reflect and respond to the times in which they live. Moreover, they will also consciously consider what it means to write academically at the college level through regular self-reflection and revision. In doing so, students will strengthen their rhetorical knowledge …


Post-Colonial Composition: Abrogation And Appropriation In The Composition Classroom, Heather M. Robinson Jan 2019

Post-Colonial Composition: Abrogation And Appropriation In The Composition Classroom, Heather M. Robinson

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Fractured Reading: Experiencing Students’ Thinking Habits, Cheryl Hogue Smith Jan 2019

Fractured Reading: Experiencing Students’ Thinking Habits, Cheryl Hogue Smith

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This essay explains how the author’s experience when revising an unconventionally structured article revealed a source of difficulty often faced by struggling students as they revise their own writing.


Starting The Conversation: The Origin, Execution, And Future Of Tyca’S First National Conference, Cheryl Hogue Smith, Jeff Andelora, Joanne Baird Giordano Jan 2019

Starting The Conversation: The Origin, Execution, And Future Of Tyca’S First National Conference, Cheryl Hogue Smith, Jeff Andelora, Joanne Baird Giordano

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This article discusses the origin, execution, and future of TYCA’s historic 2019 first national conference, as told from the perspectives of TYCA’s past chair, conference chair, and current chair. The article also provides an overview of key issues for TYCA members that emerged from the conference.


Defining Translinguality, Sara P. Alvarez, Bruce Horner Jan 2019

Defining Translinguality, Sara P. Alvarez, Bruce Horner

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This article reviews the history of conflicting meanings for translinguality in composition studies, locating that history in the context of other competing terms for language difference with which translinguality is sometimes affiliated and competes, and conflicting definitions of these, and in the context of perceived changes to global communication technologies and migration patterns. It argues for approaching translinguality and the confusion surrounding it as evidence of an epistemological break and explains confusions as a response to the challenges such a break poses. It demonstrates the residual operation of monolingualist notions of language in arguments for “code-meshing,” “plurilinguality,” and “translanguaging” and …