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Western News, Sept. 19, 2013, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Rare potash deposit rediscovered in state; WMU again on U.S. News' top-tier universities list; Surge seen in several 2013 enrollment categories; Five employees earn Universitywide service, teaching awards; On Campus with Maddy Day.

Wmu Board Of Trustees Formal Session September 18, 2013, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

Minutes of the September 18, 2013 WMU Board of Trustees meeting include:

• Remarks by the Board Chair Jeanne Carlson
• Remarks by President John Dunn
• Lease Agreement with the WMU School of Medicine

WMU Board of Trustees

Call For Submissions

Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education

No abstract provided.

Embracing A Productive Rhetorical Pragmatism: Teaching Writing As Democratic Deliberation, Jennifer Clifton

Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education

Our current points of stasis in American politics make clear: we are facing a deep crisis of imagination in public life. Our (in)ability to imagine the interests and experiences of others limits not only how we understand domestic and global citizenship but also how we enact that citizenship with others. In talk and in practice, the inability to take seriously the interests and experiences of others leads Americans – in English Language Arts classrooms and in public life – to cast those who disagree as deeply flawed in character – unpatriotic, ungodly, lazy, irresponsible, or criminal.

In this article, I …

Student-Teachers' Comments' Type On Children's Writing: Practices And Perceptions Of Their Role As Writing Facilitators, Esther Sayag- Cohen, Merav Asaf, Nurit Nathan

Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education

Student-Teachers' Comments' Type on Children's Writing: Practices and Perceptions of their Role as Writing Facilitators

Abstract

This study examines how student-teachers in the final stage of their teacher education program, perceive the role of feedback and how they write feedback on children's writing. Towards this end, student-teachers wrote compositions, answered a questionnaire, and wrote feedback on compositions written by 6^th grade students. 10 student-teachers were also interviewed. Findings are that student-teachers perceive writing as a functional and technical process; they mainly edited the texts, they did not relate to the content, and were critical towards the expression of feelings …

Making The Most Of Existing Resources: An Online Rubric Database In University-Wide Writing Program Assessment, Jennifer M. Good, Kevin Osborne

Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education

When creating an assessment plan to measure writing outcomes for a university-wide writing across the curriculum (WAC) program, administrators considered multi-layered evaluation methods for benchmarking and measuring internal growth of students. Although assessment plans must address these needs, the actual assessment practices must be flexible, accessible to faculty, and feasible--based on existing technological structures and data systems at an institution. The writing assessment that is provided addresses all of these elements and is offered as a model for other programs.

For this particular study, the internal aspect of the assessment plan that tracks growth of students over time is the …

“Listening Across The Curriculum: What Disciplinary Tas Can Teach Us About Ta Professional Development In The Teaching Of Writing”, Tanya K. Rodrigue

Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education

Over the past couple of decades, a small number of compositionists have argued that disciplinary TAs are in fact teachers of writing and should be involved in writing across the curriculum (WAC) efforts and conversations. Compositionists have easily translated disciplinary teaching assistants’ (TAs’) responsibilities as those of a writing instructor and have confidently assigned TAs with the pedagogical identity of a writing teacher. Yet do TAs in the disciplines perceive themselves in the same manner? There is no existing scholarship that provides insight into how disciplinary TAs perceive and define their pedagogical responsibilities and identities, and the factors involved in …

Exploring Identity-Based Challenges To English Teachers’ Professional Growth, Heather C. Camp

Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education

This study explores identity-based challenges that can hinder secondary English teachers enrolled in Master’s degree programs from experiencing professional growth. It illustrates how identity conflicts can prevent teachers from integrating a disciplinary identity into their professional sense-of-self, thereby limiting the benefits they might gain from graduate coursework. In particular, the study suggests that dissonance between discourse norms and values, concerns about community allegiances, and assumptions about language, difficulty, and power can impede teachers from appropriating disciplinary discourse and hinder them from combining it with more familiar discourses that circulate in schools and shape teachers’ identities.

The Knowing/Doing Gap: Challenges Of Effective Writing Instruction In High School, Sylvia Read, Melanie M. Landon-Hays

Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education

This study explores the challenges of effective writing instruction in high school, specifically examining the perceptions of five new high school English teachers regarding their own experiences learning to write as students, their preparation to become teachers of writing, and how they teach and assess writing in their classrooms. In order to more fully understand their view of writing instruction, we interviewed and observed them. The findings are organized into two strands: teacher beliefs about their own formative opportunities with writing, both as students and in preparation to become teachers, and teacher reflections on best practices in writing instruction and …

Table Of Contents/Opening Editorial, Jonathan E. Bush

Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education

No abstract provided.

Teaching/Writing -- Summer/Fall 2013 [Full Issue]

Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education

No abstract provided.

September 10, 2013: Interdisciplinary Work Group In Digital Humanities, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.

September 9, 2013: Gwst/Women's Caucus Fall Reception, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.

Western News, Sept. 5, 2013, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: University earns more national accolades; Report details successful first year in implementing strategic plan; Four staff members to receive annual Make a Difference Awards; On Campus with Vance Harris.

Prism #73, September 2013, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

Suicide Within United States Jails: A Qualitative Interpretive Meta-Synthesis, Laura Frank, Regina T. P. Aguirre

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Suicide was the leading cause of unnatural deaths in local jails, accounting for 29% of all jail deaths between 2000 and 2007. Though much literature exists on suicide in jails, very little is qualitative. Additionally, little attention has been focused on how the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide applies to the jail environment. To gain a better understanding of suicide in jails, an interpretive meta-synthesis of three qualitative articles was conducted. The combined sample included thirty-four individuals from three jails. These three articles were analyzed to identify common themes that led inmates to suicide. Three broad categories were identified through constant …

Women's Work Attitudes, Aspirations, And Workforce Participation Before And After Relocation From Public Housing, Edith J. Barrett

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

For the past decade or so, public housing policies have focused on moving residents from concentrated housing developments into newly designed mixed-income developments or, through housing choice vouchers, into neighborhoods with lower concentrations of poor. These newer programs are driven by research that suggests public housing residents will have greater opportunity for financial self-sufficiency and, although not openly discussed, will better appreciate the importance of work when they live among higher income working residents. Using panel data collected from public housing residents relocated following the closure of a public housing development, this study explores the relationship between individual characteristics, neighborhood …

Notes On Contributors

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Brief biographical notes on contributing translators.

Pétanque By Emmanuel Verot, Randy Schwartz

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Translated from the French with commentary by Randy Schwartz.

Adjuration By Alexander Pushkin, J. M. Mcbirnie

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Translated from the Russian with commentary by J.M. McBirnie.

Untitled (2 October 1910), Untitled (6 October 1910), And Untitled (7 October 1910) By Natsume Sōseki, Erik Lofgren

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Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Erik Lofgren.

A Life By Wadih Saadeh, Ghada Mourad

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Translated from the Arabic with commentary by Ghada Mourad.

Cat, Heads, It Takes All Sorts, And Okinawan Scene By Yamanokuchi Baku, Daryl Maude

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Translated from the Japanese by Daryl Maude.

Commentary On Translating Heinrich Heine, Charles Baudelaire, And Martial, Susan Mclean

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Notes on translating poems in German, French, and Latin into English by Susan McLean.

A Nomad’S Progression To The Settled Life By Yuri Vaella, Claude Clayton Smith

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Translated from the Russian by Claude Clayton Smith and Alexander Vaschenko with commentary by Claude Clayton Smith.

Geta, My House, And Bowing Low (The Promulgation Of The Constitution) By Takamura Kōtarō, Leanne Ogasawara

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Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Leanne Ogasawara.

Commentary On Translating Rose Ausländer, Ingeborg Bachmann, And Nelly Sachs, Rebekah Wilson

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Notes by Rebekah Wilson on translating four German poems into English.

Bzzz..., Banned, And Indecent Sonnet By Boris Vian, Jennifer Carr

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Translated from the French with commentary by Jennifer Carr.

Direction, Funeral Train, Pain, And When The World Perishes By Yoshiro Ishihara, Goro Takano

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Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Goro Takano.

Beneath The Moss By Fujiwara Shunzei, Roselee Bundy

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Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Roselee Bundy.