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It Works For Me, Too! More Shared Tips For Effective Teaching, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

In the four years since our first book on teaching, we have noticed both on our campus and around the country a new emphasis on the instructor as teacher (vs. scholar). We have read books on the subject, attended the prestigious Lilly Conference, helped establish a Teaching & Learning Center on our campus (Hal served as its first director), and written for new journals focusing on pedagogy. It Works For Me, Too! is our contribution to the Renaissance in College Pedagogy, our attempt to fuel this brightening interest in effective teaching. Like its predecessor, this book is a compilation of …

Drawing On Memory: A Technique For Making Short Fiction Come Alive, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

Considers how to get today's schoolchild and college student to move from the words to the picture, then back again. Explores the teaching technique of having students draw what the piece of literature describes. Finds that drawing the visual image provides a much better chance of understanding a work's significance. Describes how to apply this idea with a homework assignment.

Making The Right Call: Criteria For Choosing Short Fiction, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

Notes that teachers who teach short fiction must consider several things when choosing which works to teach. Describes criteria the authors use when selecting works for their literature classes (World Literature Survey, American Literature, and Principles of Literary Study). Concludes by affirming the importance of choosing short fiction.

Psychic Waste: Freud, Fechner And The Principle Of Constancy, Suzanne Raitt

Suzanne Raitt

Serving Time (Book Review), Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Review of the book "Hey, Waitress! The USA From the Other Side of the Tray," by Alison Owings. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.

Truth Is Stranger Than Folklore: Hugh Nibley, The Man And The Legend, Boyd J. Petersen

Boyd J Petersen

Separating the folklore from the fact proved difficult in creating a biography of Mormon scholar Hugh Nibley.

Ijelè: Welcoming The King Of Modern African Letters To Massachusetts, Chukwuma Azuonye

Chukwuma Azuonye

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The Caufield Family Of Writers In The Catcher In The Rye, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Charlie Sweet

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Moody's Blues, Hal Charles

Charlie Sweet

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Envy, The Desire For Fame, And Feminist Academics: A Lacanian Approach, Jean Wyatt

Jean Wyatt

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Holden's Mysterious Hat, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Charlie Sweet

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The Question Of Quality And Qualifications: Writing Inferior Poems As Qualitative Research, Jane Piirto

Jane Piirto

Alternative forms of data representation have been widely recommended, including the writing of poems as educational research. The arts have their own ways. What qualifications do arts-based researchers need to have? How does one judge the quality of the product? Using part of a novel and three of her own poems as illustrations, the author, a qualitative researcher and literary writer, conjectures about the notion of quality and qualification in the use of art forms as qualitative research.

Hope From Hopelessness: Finding Contemporary Southern Literature Through Anne Tyler’S Use Of The Sound And The Fury, Amy M. Elliott

Amy M. Elliott

Critical debate focuses on the trend of Southern writers and the classification of their work within the tradition of Southern literature. One side of the argument supports contemporary writers as part of the Southern literary tradition. That is, it proposes that contemporary Southern writers continue to write Southern literature not by writing with the same style and magnitude as Faulkner and Warren, but by basing their writing on this tradition and modernizing it. An excellent example lies in Anne Tyler’s use of William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury as a foundation for her Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Through …

Disturbing Knowledge, Allison Schuette

Allison Schuette

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The Cultures Of Literature And Composition: What Could Each Learn From The Other?, Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

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Review Of Michael Rosen's Turning Words, Spinning Worlds: Chapters In Organizational Ethnography. Michael Rosen. Singapore: Harwood, 2000, Terri A. Fredrick

Terri A. Fredrick

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Floral Counterdiscourse: Miscegenation, Ecofeminism, And Hybridity In Lydia Maria Child's A Romance Of The Republic

Debra Rosenthal

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The Subject Turns To Death, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

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November Valentine, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

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Another Quietist Controversy, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

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Controlled Language Optimized For Uniform Translation (Clout), Uwe Muegge

Uwe Muegge

CLOUT consists of a set of ten simple rules that help authors write translation-friendly source documents.

Questionnaires In Dictionary Use Research: A Reexamination, Robert Lew

Robert Lew

The present paper re-examines the usefulness of questionnaires in dictionary use research, using Glynn Hatherall's well-known criticism of questionnaires as a starting point. It is argued here that charges directed at questionnaires apply equally easily to the alternatives suggested by Hatherall. It is claimed that some research questions require a questionnaire approach. It is also demonstrated through example that unreliability of questionnaire-based studies may well result from design factors unrelated to questionnaires themselves. Use of multiple methods and careful design is advocated. Finally, suggestions are offered for improving questionnaire design in dictionary use research.

A Study In The Use Of Bilingual And Monolingual Dictionaries By Polish Learners Of English: A Preliminary Report, Robert Lew

Robert Lew

The paper presents a selection of results from a study investigating dictionary use by 712 Polish learners of English representing a variety of FL competence levels and backgrounds. Data from Learner Survey, experiment, and Teacher Survey are brought in to test hypotheses relating to a variety of aspects of dictionary use. Here two aspects have been selected for presentation. First, frequency with which learners seek different types of information in their dictionaries is analyzed. It is found that the need for meaning and equivalents dominates over non-semantic information at all levels but the highest. At the advanced level, interest in …

Differences In The Scope Of Obstruent Voicing Assimilation In Learners' English As A Consequence Of Regional Variation In Polish, Robert Lew

Robert Lew

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"Dead Girl-Bag": The Janet Smith Case As Contaminant In Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe", Tanis Macdonald

Tanis MacDonald

Article discussing the trope of the white woman as pharmakon in SKY Lee's historical novel.

Characterization Of Different Reactive Lysines In Bovine Heart Mitochondrial Porin. Al Jamal Ja, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

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Book Review Of Brian Mcilroy, Shooting To Kill: Filmmaking And The “Troubles” In Northern Ireland, Casey Jarrin

Casey Jarrin

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Who Owns The Whip?: Chesnutt, Tourgee, And Reconstruction Justice, Bill Hardwig

Bill Hardwig

Who Owns the Whip?: Chesnutt, Tourgée, and Reconstruction Justice Author(s): Bill Hardwig Source: African American Review, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Spring, 2002), pp. 5-20 Published by: St. Louis University Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2903361

Epistemological Vertigo, Gene Washington

Gene Washington

A ONE ACT PLAY. Three characters. A play of the absurd about a certain lack of knowledge about the characters location, how they got there, and how to go on from there (wherever that is).

A Review Of "Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland: Life And Letters" By Heather Wolfe, Julie Campbell

Julie Campbell

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