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Full-Text Articles in Language and Literacy Education
That Last Lecture: What If?, Pat Martinez
That Last Lecture: What If?, Pat Martinez
The Utah English Journal
It began as a tiny What if? –prompted by a Carnegie Mellon tradition and a professor, Randy Pausch, who literally gave his Last Lecture on September 18, 2007. One month before, doctors had told Pausch he only had a few months to live. His lecture Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, led to a book: The Last Lecture. I found his book on a community bookshelf and read it cover to cover. It was peppered with humor, advice, and endearing short stories.
Windows And Mirrors: A Reflection On Building An Inclusive Classroom Library, Carrie Crowe
Windows And Mirrors: A Reflection On Building An Inclusive Classroom Library, Carrie Crowe
The Utah English Journal
I remember the sound of excitement in Adia’s voice, her face beaming with a smile from ear to ear. “Ms. Crowe, I love the book you gave me. She’s like me!” Adia, a student in my class, turned the cover of the book toward me, displaying a picture of Sonia Sotomayor. This was my “Freedom Writers’’ movie moment as a teacher. I had made a student feel seen by giving her a book with someone who looked like her. It was not until years later that I realized how little thought I had actually given to placing that book in …
Book Reviews: From The Editor, Justin Scholes
Book Reviews: From The Editor, Justin Scholes
The Utah English Journal
What is the place of books in a world full of diverse, powerful media? With students’ access to and affinity for movies, cartoons, video games, and social media, what can books offer? Of course, you and I have ample responses to these questions, and yet, I wonder if you ever feel the way that I have felt at times—like I am competing with these other media, like many of my students need convincing that books are still relevant.
Book Review: Accountable: The True Story Of A Racist Social Media Account And The Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed, Lisa Jones
The Utah English Journal
In California, a boy named Charles creates an Instagram account with the express purpose of getting a laugh out of his friends, and he does so through shockingly racist content about their own classmates. Just over a dozen boys follow the account, some interacting more than others. Meanwhile, through a mutual friend, word gets out to the girls being targeted, and soon the entire school is caught up in the fallout. What starts as a “simple joke” leads to reconciliation meetings gone wrong, riots, violence, and national headlines. Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the …
Book Review: Next Level Grammar For A Digital Age: Teaching With Social Media And Online Tools For Rhetorical Understanding And Critical Creation, Val O'Bryan
The Utah English Journal
Social media surrounds us. Students don’t often stop and think about the underlying structures and rhetoric that make up social media posts and memes. However, social media is a landscape rich with opportunities to teach critical digital literacy. This forward- thinking book explains how to teach digital language and provides tools for teaching practical grammar in the classroom, focusing on Internet language. Crovitz, Devereaux, and Moran explain how students can practice using language deliberately by applying rhetorical grammar with digital tools. The authors provide numerous original strategies, prompts, and questions that leverage students’ existing skills, not to mention their interest …
Book Review: Button Pusher, Elizabeth Hancock
Book Review: Button Pusher, Elizabeth Hancock
The Utah English Journal
Tyler Page’s memoir and graphic novel, Button Pusher, chronicles his journey with ADHD from diagnosis through high school graduation. While Tyler struggles with the ups and downs of having ADHD, he also faces the usual social challenges of each school year and struggles with his parents’ fighting. By the time he’s ready to leave for college, he has made peace with his disorder and his family challenges.
Book Review: The Door Of No Return, Krista Thornock
Book Review: The Door Of No Return, Krista Thornock
The Utah English Journal
Eleven year old Kofi Offin lives on the banks of the Offin River in Ghana. His Asante village in the fictional region of Upper Kwanta provides a setting for Kofi to explore his imminent manhood as he navigates relationships with family, friends, a schoolmaster, and even the village rivals in Lower Kwanta.
Book Review: The Ogress And The Orphans, Ashlyn Anderson
Book Review: The Ogress And The Orphans, Ashlyn Anderson
The Utah English Journal
Unfolding as an allegory, The Ogress and the Orphans analogizes the perils of selfishness and suspicion to the repercussions of a sinister dragon descending upon a credulous town.
Book Review: Iveliz Explains It All, Pamela Fetzer Hawker
Book Review: Iveliz Explains It All, Pamela Fetzer Hawker
The Utah English Journal
The voice of the child becoming a woman played through my head as I read Iveliz Explains It All, Andrea Beatriz Arango’s debut novel. The poetry flows from page to page explaining the world of Iveliz, filled with second chances, 7th grade, a journal, Spanish, sightings of her dead dad, Mami (her mother), and Mimi (her grandmother, who has Alzheimer’s). Iveliz is faced with an In School Behavior Intervention (ISBI) because she messed up her second chance. In ISBI, she has time to write her Seventh-Grade Goals: An Official List, which modulates and changes throughout the book.
Book Review: The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea, Annika Nielson
Book Review: The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea, Annika Nielson
The Utah English Journal
When faced with two paths and two destinies, Mina makes a bold, irreversible choice: She will sacrifice herself to be the Sea God’s bride and go below the ocean to the City of Ghosts. By doing so, she takes the fated place of Shim Cheong, the girl that Mina’s brother Joon loves with his whole heart. This decision, born out of a place of sisterly love, sets the tone for the entirety of The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh, since Mina’s mission after she’s pulled under the waves is to find the Sea God and end …
Book Review: All My Rage, Marci Nelson Ozer
Book Review: All My Rage, Marci Nelson Ozer
The Utah English Journal
Sabaa Tahir, in her National Book Award winning novel All My Rage, weaves a tale that spans from Lahore, Pakistan to the fictional town of Juniper, California as told through the voices of three characters in alternating chapters.
Book Review: I Must Betray You, Rebekah Crawley
Book Review: I Must Betray You, Rebekah Crawley
The Utah English Journal
Anyone planning to read one of Ruta Sepetys’ historical fiction novels should prepare to have their eyes open to some of the world’s most hushed atrocities. From buried genocides to kidnapped babies, her stories will have you googling the veracity of her words. I Must Betray You is no different. Set in 1989 Romania, this historical fiction will have you captivated by the story of 17-year-old Cristian Florescu as he navigates life under a communist regime.
Book Review: The Life And Crimes Of Hoodie Rosen, Megan Colson
Book Review: The Life And Crimes Of Hoodie Rosen, Megan Colson
The Utah English Journal
Yehuda Rosen, also known as Hoodie, is a practicing Orthodox Jewish boy living in a new town called Tregaron. His father and others are trying to grow the Jewish community to the dismay of the mayor and other locals. Hoodie doesn’t see this as his problem though, especially after meeting and falling for Anna- Maria Diaz O’Leary, the daughter of the mayor who is trying to keep the Jewish community from moving in.
Book Review: Maizy Chen’S Last Chance, Ashley Hauber
Book Review: Maizy Chen’S Last Chance, Ashley Hauber
The Utah English Journal
In Lisa Yee’s latest novel, Maizy Chen’s Last Chance, eleven year old Maizy joins her mom for a summer helping at her grandparents’ Chinese restaurant in the tiny little town of Last Chance, Minnesota. While Grandma and Mom run the restaurant, Maizy keeps Grandpa company as he tends to his health and regales her with thrilling stories of their ancestors’ journey from China to a new life in America. When a racist note attempts to blackmail the family restaurant, Maizy leans on the strength and resilience she’s learned from her grandpa’s stories to speak up and fight back against the …
A Lens Shift To Encourage Student Voice In Writing, Camille P. Stewart
A Lens Shift To Encourage Student Voice In Writing, Camille P. Stewart
The Utah English Journal
The sentence starters I worked so hard to spiral into the year’s curriculum became more than a scaffold– they were a permanent fixture. It was March, and my struggling writers were asking, “What sentence starter comes next?” without understanding why the transition worked. Their writing was organized, but lacked voice and intentionality. Students should know they control and choose their writing, so I decided to give students a new way to see their work and adapt the sentence starters they already knew. To do this, I looked for an allegory that students could connect to while planning their writing.
Adding Diversity Into Your Curriculum: A Three-Step Process With Examples, Lisa Jones
Adding Diversity Into Your Curriculum: A Three-Step Process With Examples, Lisa Jones
The Utah English Journal
Walking around my classroom library, I noticed a recurring theme among the books: White characters and White authors. While this technically reflected the demographic of my predominantly White community, it did not provide enough representation for my BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and other Persons of Color) students. Rudine Sims Bishop (1990) compares literature to windows (where readers see a different life experience than their own) and mirrors (where readers see themselves and their potential); she warns, “When children cannot find themselves reflected in the books they read… they learn a powerful lesson about how they are devalued in the society of …
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The Writing Center Journal
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The Idea Of A Writing Center In Brazil: A Different Beat, Ron Martinez
The Idea Of A Writing Center In Brazil: A Different Beat, Ron Martinez
The Writing Center Journal
This article explores the emergence and development of writing centers in Brazil, using the author’s experience founding the Centro de Assessoria de Publicação Acadêmica (CAPA) at the Universidade Federal do Paraná as a case study. The author provides some historical context about Brazilian education and its traditional “banking model” of education (Paulo Freire) that did not value individual expression—including through writing. This model persisted even as composition studies evolved elsewhere. Academic literacy development in Brazil is thus a relatively recent phenomenon, and the effects of that paucity are felt among scholars in higher education settings. This motivated the author’s research …
An Exploratory Study Of Mindsets, Sense Of Belonging, And Help-Seeking In The Writing Center, Traci Freeman, Steve Getty
An Exploratory Study Of Mindsets, Sense Of Belonging, And Help-Seeking In The Writing Center, Traci Freeman, Steve Getty
The Writing Center Journal
In this exploratory study, we took as our point of departure Lori Salem’s (2016) call to investigate the factors that affect students’ decisions to visit the writing center. Rather than exploring student decision-making through a sociological lens, as Salem does, we drew on insights from social psychology to understand students’ motivations. We explored two self-theories drawn from social psychology that are associated with students’ academic achievement and with students’ help-seeking: (1) implicit beliefs about intelligence or “mindsets”; and (2) sense of belonging. Using questions from previously validated scales, we measured first-year students’ mindsets and sense of belonging and tested the …
Timely, Relevant, Practical: A Study Of Writing Center Summer Institute Alumni Perceptions Of Value And Benefits, Julia Bleakney, Mark Hall, Kelsey Hixson-Bowles, Sohui Lee, Nathalie Singh-Corcoran
Timely, Relevant, Practical: A Study Of Writing Center Summer Institute Alumni Perceptions Of Value And Benefits, Julia Bleakney, Mark Hall, Kelsey Hixson-Bowles, Sohui Lee, Nathalie Singh-Corcoran
The Writing Center Journal
Since its inception in 2003, the IWCA Summer Institute (SI) has been understood within the writing center field to be an important professional development opportunity for new and experienced writing center professionals (WCPs). Publications on the SI to date have focused on anecdotal perceptions of the benefits to leaders and participants or on a single outcome, such as research output. Thus, the writing center field knows little about how and in what ways participants perceive the SI’s benefits across cohorts and across a variety of professional areas. By gathering quantitative and qualitative data from every SI cohort from 2003 to …
Effectively Affective: Examining The Ethos Of One Hbcu Writing Center, Karen Keaton Jackson, Amara Hand
Effectively Affective: Examining The Ethos Of One Hbcu Writing Center, Karen Keaton Jackson, Amara Hand
The Writing Center Journal
Over the past several decades, writing center scholarship has evolved to include multiple theories and pedagogies that led to widely used best practices. As is the case in many disciplines, often writing centers at large, research PWIs are most often cited and highlighted within the scholarship. While many of those readings do offer helpful strategies for working with students at all levels, often they do not account for the unique contexts and diverse student populations that make up many HBCUs. As a result, more research from a variety of writing centers is needed so practitioners see there are multiple ways …
Accidental Outreach And Happenstance Staffing: A Cross-Institutional Study Of Writing Center Support Of First-Generation College Students, Beth A. Towle
The Writing Center Journal
First-generation students (FGS) make up a significant percentage of college populations. However, they experience hardships that are less common for their continuing-generation peers. They struggle to understand the “rules” of college and lack the cultural capital that can help students succeed through generations of knowledge about how to navigate college. Writing centers attempt to lessen these burdens by providing outreach to marginalized student populations, including FGS. However, there has been a lack of cross-institutional research that examines exactly how writing centers support FGS. This article presents a mixed-methods study that begins to close that knowledge gap and demonstrate common patterns …
How Genre-Trained Tutors Affect Student Writing And Perceptions Of The Writing Center, Lucy Bryan Malenke, Laura K. Miller, Paul E. Mabrey Iii, Jared Featherstone
How Genre-Trained Tutors Affect Student Writing And Perceptions Of The Writing Center, Lucy Bryan Malenke, Laura K. Miller, Paul E. Mabrey Iii, Jared Featherstone
The Writing Center Journal
Writing center scholars have long debated whether writers are best served by “generalist” tutors trained in writing center pedagogy or “specialist” tutors with insider knowledge about a course’s content or discipline-specific discourse conventions. A potential compromise that has emerged is training tutors in the purposes and features of specific genres. The writing center literature showcases many different approaches to genre training. However, little empirical research, if any, has explored how tutors’ genre knowledge affects session outcomes. The present study used a mixed-methods approach to compare session outcomes for students who worked with generalist and genre-trained tutors. We analyzed pre-consultation and …
Writing Centers And Neocolonialism: How Writing Centers Are Being Commodified And Exported As U.S. Neocolonial Tools, Brian Hotson, Stevie Bell
Writing Centers And Neocolonialism: How Writing Centers Are Being Commodified And Exported As U.S. Neocolonial Tools, Brian Hotson, Stevie Bell
The Writing Center Journal
In this paper, we explore the complicity of writing centers in the Global North in global neocolonialism despite its resounding rejection within Western writing center scholarship, in which Romeo García contends that writing tutors can be “decolonial agents.” We show that higher education is used by governments in the Global North as a neocolonial tool and situate international U.S. writing center initiatives within this context. Writing centers have remained complicit in global neocolonialism involving the commodification and exportation of American English as well as Western-style institutions, curricula, and pedagogies. This is most explicit in recent writing center initiatives undertaken by …
Review: Unwell Writing Centers: Searching For Wellness In Neoliberal Educational Institutions And Beyond, Aurora Matzke
Review: Unwell Writing Centers: Searching For Wellness In Neoliberal Educational Institutions And Beyond, Aurora Matzke
The Writing Center Journal
“Unwell Writing Centers: Searching for Wellness in Neoliberal Educational Institutions and Beyond” blends narrative, mixed methods research, and rhetorical analysis to make a case for the possibilities inherent in homegrown wellness practices that are “communal, political, and rooted in defiance of white supremacy.”
Multilingual Learners Speak Out: The Perspectives Of High School Esol Students On Computer-Assisted Instruction And Digital Literacy Platforms, Mitchell Ray Sexton
Multilingual Learners Speak Out: The Perspectives Of High School Esol Students On Computer-Assisted Instruction And Digital Literacy Platforms, Mitchell Ray Sexton
Doctor of Arts in English Pedagogy Capstones
This capstone project explores the impact of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) and digital literacy platforms on the language learning experiences of high school English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) students. Employing a mixed yet complementary research design that integrates phenomenological and action research, the study engaged 23 students through surveys and interviews to investigate their experiences with three instructional platforms: Achieve 3000, Duolingo, and Lexia PowerUp. The analysis revealed a strong preference for Duolingo, attributed to its user-friendly interface, comprehensive language practice features, and, notably, its mobile accessibility and relevance to real-world applications beyond academic contexts. The findings demonstrate the …
On Linguistic Justice In The Writing Center: A Genesis Story, Ghada Gherwash
On Linguistic Justice In The Writing Center: A Genesis Story, Ghada Gherwash
The Writing Center Journal
This essay presents a reflective account of the origin story of a linguistics justice initiative within the writing center. It concludes by posing questions aimed at promoting dialogue among writing center practitioners as they consider similar initiatives within their own contexts.
When Would You Feel Like A Writer? Exploring Writing With Newcomer Students, Sinélia Peixoto, Thea Williamson
When Would You Feel Like A Writer? Exploring Writing With Newcomer Students, Sinélia Peixoto, Thea Williamson
English Faculty Publications
The authors share a story of a middle school writer's experience navigating across languages in an English for Speakers of Other Languages support classroom.