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Jaepl, Vol. 4, Winter 1998-1999
Jaepl, Vol. 4, Winter 1998-1999
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Essays
Laurence E. Musgrove. Attitudes Toward Writing. This essay describes one teacher's approach to helping students understand the role attitude plays in contributing to or interfering with success in the writing class.
Mark McBeth. Body Oddities: Hypothetical (Com)positions from the Physically Extreme. Relying on the anomalous physicalities of the bearded woman, the hermaphrodite, and conjoined twins, this essay explores the links between the body and its constituent performances of composing.
Hildy Miller. Goddess Spirituality and Academic Knowledge-Making. Goddess-centered spirituality, an alternative way of making meaning, complements rationalism, the traditional notion of academic knowledge making.
Keith Rhodes. Plato, …
Front Matter
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Editor's Message
We live in a culture dominated by boundaries of all sorts. Personal space is precious to us, and we become uneasy when others do not honor those invisible borders, ignoring, perhaps, the ways in which those borders shift with age, class, gender, and ethnicity. We have office doors, house doors, and bedroom doors that we close and lock. Many of us demarcate a sharp separation between private life and public work, arguing, as does Michael Bèrubé that the life lived has nothing to do with the work written. And so we exist, being careful not to overstep our …
Attitudes Toward Writing, Laurence E. Musgrove
Attitudes Toward Writing, Laurence E. Musgrove
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
This essay describes one teacher's approach to helping students understand the role attitude plays in contributing to or interfering with success in the writing class.
Goddess Spirituality And Academic Know Ledge-Making, Hildy Miller
Goddess Spirituality And Academic Know Ledge-Making, Hildy Miller
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Goddess-centered spirituality, an alternative way of making meaning, complements rationalism, the traditional notion of academic knowledge making.
Plato, Gorgias, And Trickster: Seeking Rhetoric's Muse, Keith Rhodes
Plato, Gorgias, And Trickster: Seeking Rhetoric's Muse, Keith Rhodes
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From an historical perspective, rhetoric is the premier Tricksterish art. Seeing this permits us to re-evaluate Plato's role in the history of rhetoric and re-think current practices.
Reviews, Katie Kane, Sheryl Mylan, Jerome Bump
Reviews, Katie Kane, Sheryl Mylan, Jerome Bump
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Reviews
Katie Kane. Women Writing Culture. (Gary A. Olson and Elizabeth Hirsh, Eds., 1995). Women/ Writing/ Teaching. (Jan Zlotnik Schmidt, Ed., 1998).
Sheryl Mylan. ARTiculating: Teaching Writing in a Visual World. (Pamela B. Childers, Eric Hobson, and Joan A. Mullin, 1998).
Jerome Bump. Emotional Intelligence. (Daniel Goleman, 1995).
Body Oddities: Hypothetical (Com)Positions From The Physically Extreme, Mark Mcbeth
Body Oddities: Hypothetical (Com)Positions From The Physically Extreme, Mark Mcbeth
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Relying on the anomalous physicalities of the bearded woman, the hermaphrodite, and conjoined twins, this essay explores the links between the body and its constituent performances of composing.
Reflection And An Appetite For Experience: Theory To Classroom Practice, Judith Halden-Sullivan
Reflection And An Appetite For Experience: Theory To Classroom Practice, Judith Halden-Sullivan
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Reflection promotes an openness to thinking and an appetite for experience that must ground everyday classroom practice.
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When A Student Ends A Wounded Silence, Dave Waddell
When A Student Ends A Wounded Silence, Dave Waddell
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Students who disclose psychological trauma may derive therapeutic benefits, and writing teachers should carefully consider their roles.