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Ua68/6/1 Cherry Hall Bulletin, Wku English
Ua68/6/1 Cherry Hall Bulletin, Wku English
WKU Archives Records
Newsletter created by the English Department. This issue highlights the Robert Penn Warren Centennial, Kentucky Writers Conference and Book Fest, faculty achievements and student activities.
Over State Lines: Somewhere Between, Melodie Past
Over State Lines: Somewhere Between, Melodie Past
Morehead State Theses and Dissertations
A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Melodie Past on January 20, 2005.
Working For The Clampdown? Being Crafty At Managed Universities, Joe Essid
Working For The Clampdown? Being Crafty At Managed Universities, Joe Essid
English Faculty Publications
Last fall I found myself not only our school’s Writing Center Director but also its Writing Program Administrator. At the same time, a reminder of my wastrel youth appeared: the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the Clash’s London Calling.
The two events are connected. On the one hand, it is delightful to hear people again discuss the anthems of the punk-rock era. More than at any time since the 1970s, we need a little more defiance against authority, including the transformation of everything into a saleable commodity. On the other hand, the very way in which London Calling appeared, slickly packaged …
Jaepl, Vol. 11, Winter 2005-2006, Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Linda T. Calendrillo
Jaepl, Vol. 11, Winter 2005-2006, Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Linda T. Calendrillo
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Essays
Kami Day. We Learn More Than Just Writing.
In a composition class, students learn a great deal more, for good or ill, than just strategies for writing. This article shows that, as students and teachers learn to recognize and value their own inner teachers, they can also develop relationships with each other that nourish their spirits as well as their intellects.
Gina DeBlase. 'I Have a New Understanding': Critical Narrative Inquiry as Transformation in the English-History Classroom.
This case study highlights what roles classroom discussion and activity around literature, history, and society play in developing one student’s …
We Learn More Than Just Writing, Kami Day
We Learn More Than Just Writing, Kami Day
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
In a composition class, students learn a great deal more, for good or ill, than just strategies for writing. This article shows that, as students and teachers learn to recognize and value their own inner teachers, they can also develop relationships with each other that nourish their spirits as well as their intellects.
“I Have A New Understanding”: Critical Narrative Inquiry As Transformation In The English-History Classroom, Gina Deblase
“I Have A New Understanding”: Critical Narrative Inquiry As Transformation In The English-History Classroom, Gina Deblase
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
This case study highlights what roles classroom discussion and activity around literature, history, and society play in developing one student’s understanding of complex social issues, and what ways of talking and thinking develop over time.
Headstands, Writing, And The Rhetoric Of Radical Self-Acceptance, Geraldine Deluca
Headstands, Writing, And The Rhetoric Of Radical Self-Acceptance, Geraldine Deluca
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
By emphasizing the importance of patient practice as an end in itself, yoga offers a model teaching and learning writing that can help students move forward in a context of self-acceptance and find the sources of their own talents and values.
Idioms As Cultural Commonplaces: Corporeal Lessons From Hokkien Idioms, Sue Hum
Idioms As Cultural Commonplaces: Corporeal Lessons From Hokkien Idioms, Sue Hum
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
This essay uses idioms, especially Hokkien idioms, to counter the western predisposition of separating mind and body, arguing that they underscore the mind-body shift that occurs with the acquisition of academic discourses.
Mindfulness, Buddhism, And Rogerian Argument, Alexandria Peary
Mindfulness, Buddhism, And Rogerian Argument, Alexandria Peary
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Use of Buddhist mindfulness practices with Rogerian argument highlights Roger’s ideas of empathy and conscious listening which help develop a rhetorical imagination in the student.
Poetry And The Art Of Meditation: Going Behind The Symbols, Stan Scott
Poetry And The Art Of Meditation: Going Behind The Symbols, Stan Scott
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Combining reader-response theory with spiritual teachings, this article explores how reading poetry may serve as an introduction to the art of meditation.
Connecting, Helen Walker, Louise Morgan, Amy Wink, Marcia Nell, Gergana Vitanova, Judy Huddleston
Connecting, Helen Walker, Louise Morgan, Amy Wink, Marcia Nell, Gergana Vitanova, Judy Huddleston
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Louise Morgan—Street Science: An English Teacher’s Introduction to Street Life.
Amy Wink—'In the Middle of Difficulty Lies Opportunity'— Albert Einstein
Marcia Nell—The New Partnership
Gergana Vitanova—Negotiating an Identity in Graduate School as a Second Language Speaker.
Judy Huddleston—A Cat in the Sun: Reflections on Teaching.
Reviews, Edward J. Sullivan, Gabriele Rico, Megan Brown, Kim Mccollum-Clark
Reviews, Edward J. Sullivan, Gabriele Rico, Megan Brown, Kim Mccollum-Clark
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Reviews
Edward J. Sullivan. Ken Wilber: Thought as Passion. (Frank Visser, 2003).
Gabriele Rico. A Way to Move: Rhetorics of Emotion and Composition Studies. (Ed. Dale Jacobs and Laura R. Micciche, 2003).
Megan Brown. Living the Narrative Life: Stories as a Tool for Meaning Making. (Gian S. Pagnucci, 2004).
Kim McCollum-Clark. Personally Speaking: Experience as Evidence in Academic Discourse. (Candace Spigelman, 2004).
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What Happens When We Read: Picturing A Reader’S Responsibilities, Laurence Musgrove
What Happens When We Read: Picturing A Reader’S Responsibilities, Laurence Musgrove
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
A graphic representation of reading as a process enables students to respond more fully and responsibly to literature by attending to what they contribute to the act of reading, what the world to the text can offer, what kinds of responses are available to them, and what they can do to make sure they have responded as thoughtfully as possible.
Integrating Writing Within The Foreign Language Classroom: Shifting Dynamics, Not The Task, Patricia Ann Evans
Integrating Writing Within The Foreign Language Classroom: Shifting Dynamics, Not The Task, Patricia Ann Evans
MA TESOL Collection
This classroom based research project considers the following questions: Why should my foreign language students write? From Pedagogy to Purpose; what happens when students use technology with their writing; what transitions take place with regard to the role as teacher when integrating writing into the Spanish language classroom? This project follows the shift from writing , disconnected activities to writing. How a student-centered writing process and technology support the shift away from the perception that good writing is voiceless and mechanical. It traces the shift from learning to write to writing to learn. The project studies the shift that occurs …
Beyond 'Hot Lips' And 'Big Nurse': Creative Writing And Nursing, Sandra Young
Beyond 'Hot Lips' And 'Big Nurse': Creative Writing And Nursing, Sandra Young
English Faculty Publications
This essay describes a special topics creative writing course designed for nursing students, and argues that creative writing strategies work to improve nurses' compositional skills. Also discussed are other potential benefits from creatively writing patients' lives, notably, the blending of arts and sciences, and the ways in which medical schools are encouraging their students to study the humanities, especially literature and creative writing. The essay includes student creative writing samples.
The essay also discusses the depiction of nurses in popular culture. M*A*S*H*, Richard Hooker’s black comedy about the antics of doctors and nurses during the Korean War, gave us “Hot …
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Editors' Message
Inner Work: Teaching and Learning (from) Within
”There lives the dearest freshness deep down things,” Gerald Manley Hopkins writes in God’s Grandeur, capturing in this line, as he sought to reveal through the marvelously unique sounds and rhythms of his poetry, the “inscape” or the unique inner essence of all natural things. “The dearest freshness deep down things” is also Parker Palmer’s focus in The Courage to Teach, where he argues for a teacher’s and a learner’s inner work: exploring “the inner landscape of the teaching self” because “[t]he more familiar we are with our inner …