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Becoming The Story In The Joyful World Of "Jack And The Beanstalk"., Kathryn F. Whitmore
Becoming The Story In The Joyful World Of "Jack And The Beanstalk"., Kathryn F. Whitmore
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This article looks into the world of pretend to understand how the invitation to move, to take risks, and to become the story of Jack and the Beanstalk afforded three- to five-year-old children a means to be more than their usual selves. It describes a ten-week process drama residency studied in two preschool settings: first in three classrooms in a rural Head Start school and one year later in two classrooms in an urban Reggio-inspired child development center. The focus is on the compelling effect of engaging preschoolers’ bodies in movement and pretend, particularly for three children who presented what …
Writing Wikipedia, Timothy Henningsen
Writing Wikipedia, Timothy Henningsen
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In this article, the author describes how he uses Wikipedia in writing courses as a means to engage students in the writing and research process, and to highlight the compelling potential that rests with using Wikipedia in college settings, despite its antithetical position throughout academia.
Female Quixotism Refashioned: Northanger Abbey, The Engaged Reader, And The Woman Writer, Jodi Wyett
Female Quixotism Refashioned: Northanger Abbey, The Engaged Reader, And The Woman Writer, Jodi Wyett
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Rewriting Composition : Moving Beyond A Discourse Of Need., Bruce Horner
Rewriting Composition : Moving Beyond A Discourse Of Need., Bruce Horner
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This essay argues that calls to end, move beyond, or expand composition participate in a discourse of need that accepts and reinforces the legitimacy of dominant, and restricted, definitions of not only composition but also alternatives to it: what we are led to believe is “new,” “different,” and therefore “better” than composition as conventionally defined. I analyze the operation of this discourse in David Smit’s The End of Composition Studies, Sidney Dobrin’s Postcomposition, and calls to make up for composition’s ostensible lacks by supplementing it with rhetoric or multimodal composition or by renaming it “writing studies.” Drawing on …
Quixotic Legacy: The Female Quixote And The Professional Woman Writer, Jodi Wyett
Quixotic Legacy: The Female Quixote And The Professional Woman Writer, Jodi Wyett
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This essay argues that Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote or, The Adventures of Arabella (1752) served as a fulcrum in eighteenth-century literary history by providing a figuration of the female quixote for subsequent women novelists who were keen to court absorbed readers on the one hand while countering stereotypes about women's critical failings on the other. The figure of the female quixote proves to be a significant mark of literary professionalism by reifying the spectre of the professional writer’s need for absorbed readers and dramatizing the occasion by which the woman writer demonstrates her own authority, paradoxically allowing both woman …
Don Delillo’S Art Stalkers, Graley Herren
Translinguality, Transmodality, And Difference : Exploring Dispositions And Change In Language And Learning., Bruce Horner, Cynthia Selfe, Tim Lockridge
Translinguality, Transmodality, And Difference : Exploring Dispositions And Change In Language And Learning., Bruce Horner, Cynthia Selfe, Tim Lockridge
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This collaborative piece explores the potential synergy arising from the confluence of two growing areas of research, teaching, and practice in composition (broadly defined): multi- (or trans-)modality, and trans- (or multi-) linguality.