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Unbalancing Acts: Plagiarism As Catalyst For Instructor Emotion In The Composition Classroom, Ann E. Biswas

Ann E. Biswas

In this essay, the author reflects on her experiences while researching composition instructors’ emotional responses to plagiarism. The research found that instructors faced a variety of complex and competing feelings when students plagiarized, and those responses threatened to upset relationships, power structures, and professional identities in the classroom. The author considers how and why her own emotional labor was altered in light of these findings and what this might suggest about the need for increased professional conversation in our discipline regarding the impact of emotions in the writing classroom.

Aquariums Are For Children And Creeps, Caroline Graham

Caroline Graham

This story was originally published in Day One, a weekly literary journal dedicated to short fiction and poetry from emerging writers.

Nonfiction Creative Writing 1 (1).Docx, Maura O'Neill

Maura O'Neill

No abstract provided.

Freedom Is A Good Book And A Sugar High, Meredith Doench

Meredith Doench

This is a creative nonfiction piece about reading literature with an inmate.

A Swath Of Poppies, Spring Ulmer

Spring Ulmer

No abstract provided.

Three Stories: "Permission," "Consolation," And "Presentation", Christopher Merkner

Christopher Merkner

No abstract provided.

Familiar Strangers: International Students In The U.S. Composition Course, Elena Lawrick, Fatima Esseili

Fatima Esseili

This chapter presents selected findings from our study of a well-established ESL writing program at a U.S. university with a large population of international undergraduate students. The study was conducted in all 13 writing sections. The instruments included demographic data from university registrars; one instructor survey, administered at the end of the semester; and two student surveys, one administered at the beginning of the semester and one at the end. The instructor survey response rate was 100% (13 teachers); the student survey response rates were 82.5% (161 students) and 88% (171 students), respectively.

The reported findings inform five areas: an …

Gina Bonakdar Nahai: Fantasies Of Escape And Inclusion, Mojgan Behmand

Mojgan Behmand

Cry of the Peacock, Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith, and Caspian Rain are the enticing titles of Gina Bonakdar Nahai’s Iran-focused novels, published in 1991, 1999, and 2008 respectively. And the titles hold true: the narratives reflect the pain, melancholy and dream-like beauty conveyed in the titles as they divulge characters who strive to escape the restrictions of their community, religion, government, and gender. In the meantime, as the author depicts these fantasies of escape and attempts at flight –and frequently harshly punishes them–, the characters achieve a hitherto unknown feat, namely the depiction of Jewish Iranian main characters …

Mind The Gap: And 2 Other Mysteries, Jared Brown

Jared Brown

Mind the Gap, a novel, concerns a murder that occurs in London in 2001. Eight students from a university, accompanied by two faculty members, take a "theatrical tour" of London and Stratford, during which they see and discuss twelve plays. But their tour is ruined when one member of the group is murdered. The two other mysteries in Mind the Gap and 2 Other Mysteries, "The Value of Books" and "Midtown Detectives," are relatively brief -- longer than short stories, but decidedly shorter than novels. They both present intriguing tales of suspense, and both are written in styles …

Training Graduate Assistants, Bryan Bardine

Bryan Bardine

This article was featured in the journal's '4Sites Post-secondary' section. Overall, the goals for summer training are threefold:

• TAs need to become familiar with each other.
• TAs need to be knowledgeable about the material.
• TAs should be somewhat at ease in a classroom environment.

Hermann Hesse’S 'Siddhartha' As Divine Comedy, Bryan Bardine

Bryan Bardine

Comedy has always been more difficult to define and pin down than tragedy. Part of the difficulty may be that comedy is, by its very nature, more protean than tragedy: comedy often takes delight in breaking the rules. Moreover, tragedy has been so memorably described in The Poetics that Aristotle may have unintentionally molded the shape of tragedy through the ages. There are different kinds of tragedy, to be sure, but they are usually variations of a similar theme and form. Perhaps because Aristotle's treatise on comedy has been lost, comedy was left free to develop in numerous ways. In …

Penquest Volume 2, Number 1, Janet Collins, Judy Gozdur, Susan Reed, David Reed, Rick Wagner, Carol Groover, Linda Banicki, Helen Hagadorn, Tammy Hutchinson, Sissy Crabtree, Sandra Coleman, Ann Harrington, Mark Touchton, Bruce Warner, Tom Schifanella, Laura Jo Last, David Whitsett, Bill Slaughter, S. Trevett, Richard L. Ewart, Valerie Williams, R. E. Mallery, Modesta Matthews, David Olson, E. Allen Tilley, Joseph Avanzini, Beth Goeckel, Donna Kaluzniak, Paul Cramer, Lucinda Halsema, Maria Barry, Roger Whitt Jr., Lori Nasrallah

David E. Olson

Table of Contents for this Volume:

Untitled by Janet Collins

Untitled by Judy Gozdur

Last Hour of Light by Susan Reed

Untitled by Judy Godzur

Untitled by Rick Wagner

Untitled by Carol Groover

Untitled by R. Wagner

Only in the Portico by Linda Banicki

Untitled by Helen Hagadorn

Private Place, Pubic Place by David Reed

Untitled by Tammy Hutchinson

Untitled by Tammy Hutchinson

Madison Knights by Susan Reed

Untitled by Sissy Crabtree

The Price by Sandra Coleman

Untitled by Ann Harrington

Invasion of Privacy by Mark Touchton

Untitled by Bruce Warner

Untitled by Tom Schifanella

Untitled by Tammy Hutchinson

Bloodwork …