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Marginalized Students Need To Write About Their Lives: Meaningful Assignments For Analysis And Affirmation, Nancy G. Mack
Marginalized Students Need To Write About Their Lives: Meaningful Assignments For Analysis And Affirmation, Nancy G. Mack
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
Abstract: The bias against personal experience manifests in writing courses as privileging the citation of scholars, fearing emotional writing, and equating argumentation with democratic ideals. To value the lives and knowledges of marginalized students, the curricular goals, assignments, and activities for writing courses needs to be reconsidered. Culturally sustaining pedagogy explores, extends, and examines the experiences of students. Meaningful, experience-based, narrative writing assignments are suggested: memoir essays, ethnographic research reports, and multigenre interview projects. Analysis activities challenge students to examine a chosen experience through several scholarly lenses. By adding complex analysis to their writing, students gain a challenging new experience …
Afghanistan, Alpana Sharma
Afghanistan, Alpana Sharma
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
From Here To There, Alpana Sharma
From Here To There, Alpana Sharma
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Critical Memoir And Identity Formation: Being, Belonging, Becoming, Nancy Mack
Critical Memoir And Identity Formation: Being, Belonging, Becoming, Nancy Mack
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
Critique can function as more than a scholarly pursuit; it can become a valued skill for surviving as an outsider within an academic context. Because universities are complex, largely reproductive systems, being a hard worker and following the rules does not necessarily lead to reward or even much notice. Increasing demands and multiple layers of political machinations foster disillusionment and alienation. Participating in programs, grants, and other initiatives only increases the perils, not to mention running the gauntlet of publishing and tenure. As egotistical as I may be, it is best to remember that the academic universe is not the …
The Parchment Of Kashmir (Review), Alpana Sharma
The Parchment Of Kashmir (Review), Alpana Sharma
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
The Parchment of Kashmir gathers together a wide range of essays on the subject of Kashmir. It is a compelling and stimulating book for a number of reasons. First, it interrelates a range of disciplines from political science and sociology to history, philosophy, and English. Second, it is produced by academics, all of whom are based in Jammu and Kashmir. Third, because these essays are written by scholars who are intimate with Kashmir, yet have not had an opportunity to be read outside of local circles, the book gives them a readership that they otherwise wouldn’t have; but readers themselves …
Colorful Revision: Color-Coded Comments Connected To Instruction, Nancy Mack
Colorful Revision: Color-Coded Comments Connected To Instruction, Nancy Mack
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
Color highlighting is used to connect revision mini-lessons to teacher comments that are easy for students to identify and quicker for teachers to generate electronically.
Evaluating Computer-Assisted Language Learning: An Integrated Approach To Effectiveness Research In Call (Review), Deborah J. Crusan
Evaluating Computer-Assisted Language Learning: An Integrated Approach To Effectiveness Research In Call (Review), Deborah J. Crusan
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
Since its inception, the field of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) has suffered from skeptics questioning whether technology and multimedia have anything to add to language learning. These uncertainties clearly illustrate a need for a comprehensive evaluative model of CALL. In Evaluating Computer-Assisted Language Learning: An Integrated Approach to Effectiveness Research in CALL, Jonathan Leakey asks readers to consider important matters about the field of computer-assisted language learning (CALL). His purpose for the book centers on gathering evidence for the computer’s impact on language learning. He argues for an integrated approach to the evaluation of CALL and constructs a prototype for …
Decolonizing The Modernist Mind, Alpana Sharma
Decolonizing The Modernist Mind, Alpana Sharma
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
Cataclysmic changes in the world require new accommodations to it, new ways of articulating the strangeness that abounds. Literary modernism of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries- the main period under study in this special issue-sought precisely to capture that sense of strangeness, matching it and expressing it with new aesthetic forms, styles, and subject matter. But these early forms of expression which delineated the contours of a startling new reality-the technologies of photography and cinema, scientific discoveries, new modes of transportation, global war, postwar trauma, new class and gender formations, the birth of the unconscious, the erosion of an …
Slumdog Millionaire: The Film, The Reception, The Book, The Global, Alpana Sharma
Slumdog Millionaire: The Film, The Reception, The Book, The Global, Alpana Sharma
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire was the runaway commercial hit of 2009 in the United States, nominated for ten Oscars and bagging eight of these, including Best Picture and Best Director. Also included in its trophy bag arc seven British Academy Film awards, all four of the Golden Globe awards for which it was nominated, and five Critics' Choice awards. Viewers and critics alike attribute the film's unexpected popularity at the box office to its universal underdog theme: A kid from the slums of Mumbai makes it to the game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire and wins not only …
The Modernism Of Shashi Deshpande, Alpana Sharma
The Modernism Of Shashi Deshpande, Alpana Sharma
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
This essay studies the modernist feature of metafiction in Shashi Deshpande's novels to show how it allows Deshpande to discover an agency which, while conceived in personal and idiosyncratic terms as an isolated woman's bid for independence, has ramifications extending beyond the confines of the home and the book to an outright challenge of patriarchy. An exposition of the place that writing and art occupy in Deshpande's fiction is followed by an excursion into three aspects of the female creative process shared by her artist protagonists: its genesis in mourning, its expression in sexual being, and its feminist subversion of …
Closet Feminists: Women At University Branch Campuses, Christine R. Wilson, Hope Jennings
Closet Feminists: Women At University Branch Campuses, Christine R. Wilson, Hope Jennings
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
Female faculty members at university branch campuses face unique challenges when it comes to leadership opportunities and the ability to lead successfully in the realm of higher education.
How Faculty Attitudes And Expectations Toward Student Nationality Affect Writing Assessment, Peggy Lindsey, Deborah J. Crusan
How Faculty Attitudes And Expectations Toward Student Nationality Affect Writing Assessment, Peggy Lindsey, Deborah J. Crusan
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
Earlier research on assessment suggests that even when Native English Speaker (NSE) and Non-Native English Speaker (NNES) writers make similar errors, faculty tend to assess the NNES writers more harshly. Studies indicate that evaluators may be particularly severe when grading NNES writers holistically. In an effort to provide more recent data on how faculty perceive student writers based on their nationalities, researchers at two medium-sized Midwestern universities surveyed and conducted interviews with faculty to determine if such discrepancies continue to exist between assessments of international and American writers, to identify what preconceptions faculty may have regarding international writers, and to …
"A Repeating World": Redeeming The Past And Future In The Utopian Dystopia Of Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods, Hope Jennings
"A Repeating World": Redeeming The Past And Future In The Utopian Dystopia Of Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods, Hope Jennings
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
The article examines how Jeanette Winterson's book The Stone Gods follows a spatio-temporal alternative to the pattern of dystopian apocalypse and the utopian breach from history. It notes that such alternative showed Winterson's objective to tear down repressive ideologies through articulated narratives that no longer enact similar self-destructive cycles. It also points that the book is a pertinent illustration of a feminist critical dystopia.
The Comic Apocalypse Of The Year Of The Flood, Hope Jennings
The Comic Apocalypse Of The Year Of The Flood, Hope Jennings
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
If one of the primary tensions in Margaret Atwood's work is between survival (for the individual or humanity as a whole) and "the question of whether survival is even merited," exemplified by the author's recurring interest in exploring the end of the world (Wilson 177), then Atwood has become one of contemporary literature's. most rigorous demythologizers of Apocalypse, while at the same .contributing to its tradition of prophetic warning.
A Thought, Nancy Mack
A Thought, Nancy Mack
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Ethics Of Nostalgia In Arundhati Roy's The God Of Small Things, Hope Jennings
The Ethics Of Nostalgia In Arundhati Roy's The God Of Small Things, Hope Jennings
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
We can read Roy's novel as an articulation of the necessity of questioning the nation's representation of authority, bringing to light that which exists on its borders and margins, and ultimately demonstrating how this "plurivocality" disrupts the unity or hegemony of national discourse in order to reveal how a nation is perhaps located in its counter-narratives, its own irreducible differences (Bhabha, 301). More specifically, according to the terms of Benedict Anderson's ubiquitously cited phrase, Roy is engaged in examining how India, like any nation, exists as an "imagined community"; or rather, The God of Small Things explores how we imagine …
My Kind Of People, Nancy Mack
My Kind Of People, Nancy Mack
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Prologue (To Everything That Came Before), Hope Jennings
The Prologue (To Everything That Came Before), Hope Jennings
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Representations Of The Field In Graduate Courses: Using Parody To Question All Positions, Nancy Mack
Representations Of The Field In Graduate Courses: Using Parody To Question All Positions, Nancy Mack
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
The author reports on and analyzes the inclusion of parody in her sequence of assignments for a graduate composition theory seminar. She contends that having students write parodies of particular theorists and theoretical camps enables them to gain critical leverage that they might not otherwise obtain on a field (in this case, composition studies).
Cccc Statement Of Second Language Writing And Writers, S. Miller-Cochran, C. Hooper-Ortmeier, M. Cox, A. Dadak, K. E. Depew, Deborah J. Crusan, H. Hoang, J. Jordan, P. K. Matsudu, J. Moore, G. Scott, S. Simpson
Cccc Statement Of Second Language Writing And Writers, S. Miller-Cochran, C. Hooper-Ortmeier, M. Cox, A. Dadak, K. E. Depew, Deborah J. Crusan, H. Hoang, J. Jordan, P. K. Matsudu, J. Moore, G. Scott, S. Simpson
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) recognizes the presence of a growing number of second language writers in institutions of higher education across North America, including technical colleges, two-year colleges, four-year institutions, and graduate programs. As colleges and universities have actively sought to increase the diversity of their student populations through recruitment of international students, and as domestic second language populations have grown, second language writers have become an integral part of writing courses and programs.
Skunk, Nancy Mack
Skunk, Nancy Mack
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
"What Should I Write?" Helping Students Respond To Prompts, Nancy Mack
"What Should I Write?" Helping Students Respond To Prompts, Nancy Mack
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Dystopian Matriarchies: Deconstructing The Womb In Angela Carter's Heroes And Villains And The Passion Of New Eve, Hope Jennings
Dystopian Matriarchies: Deconstructing The Womb In Angela Carter's Heroes And Villains And The Passion Of New Eve, Hope Jennings
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
Much of contemporary women’s writing attempts to offer significant tactics for the reclamation of women’s bodies with the aim of mapping out new territories of female autonomy. The British author Angela Carter (1940-1992) demonstrates in the majority of her writings an intensive concern with how embodied sites of power are often created or reinforced through various mythological narratives or frameworks. More specifically, Carter interrogates the extent to which the privileging or reappropriation of the maternal body as a source of feminine power poses itself as a problematic terrain in various feminist discourses. In contrast to the majority of Carter’s earlier …
Morphine-Addicted Doctors, The English Opium-Eater, And Embattled Medical Authority, Barry Milligan
Morphine-Addicted Doctors, The English Opium-Eater, And Embattled Medical Authority, Barry Milligan
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Making Work Visible, David Seitz
Making Work Visible, David Seitz
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
The instrumentalist motives of the working-class students are reconsidered. The local situations of these students suggest that we cannot assume what these students motives for instrumentalist behaviors might be, for instance some might emphasize the role of their families in shaping work values while others might emphasize peers and neighborhood influences.
Hard Lessons Learned Since The First Generation Of Critical Pedagogy, David Seitz
Hard Lessons Learned Since The First Generation Of Critical Pedagogy, David Seitz
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
Review of the following books: (1) Collision Course: Conflict, Negotiation, and Learning in College Composition by Russel K. Durst, (2) Mutuality in the Rhetoric and Composition Classroom by David Wallace and Helen Rothschild Ewald, and (3) Teaching Composition as a Social Process by Bruce McComiskey.
Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions And English Nationality By Cannon Schmitt (Review), Barry Milligan
Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions And English Nationality By Cannon Schmitt (Review), Barry Milligan
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
Review of the book Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality by Cannon Schmitt.
Kitchen Cooks, Plate Twirlers, And Troubadours: Writing Program Administrators Tell Their Stories (Review), Richard Bullock
Kitchen Cooks, Plate Twirlers, And Troubadours: Writing Program Administrators Tell Their Stories (Review), Richard Bullock
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
Review of the book Kitchen Cooks, Plate Twirlers, and Troubadours: Writing Program Administrators Tell Their Stories (edited by Diana George).
The Writing Program Administrator As Researcher: Inquiry In Action And Reflection (Review), Richard Bullock
The Writing Program Administrator As Researcher: Inquiry In Action And Reflection (Review), Richard Bullock
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
Review of the book The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher: Inquiry in Action and Reflection (edited by Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser).
Ragged Dick In The Nineties: An Active Learning Student Project, Carol Loranger
Ragged Dick In The Nineties: An Active Learning Student Project, Carol Loranger
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.