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Morris Berman tells the story of his maternal grandfather, who, when he was five years old in 1883 or 1884, was sent to a Jewish elementary school in Belorussia. On the first day of class, the teacher startled the young boy by taking each child's slate and smearing the first two letters of the Hebrew alphabet—aleph and beys—on it in honey. His grandfather's first lesson consisted of eating the letters off the slate. The symbolism of this act is complex, Berman muses, but central to the ritual is the belief that what is real must be taken into …

Imperfection: The Will-To-Control And The Struggle Of Letting Go, W. Keith Duffy

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As I found myself beginning to appropriate my students' writing more and more, I wondered if this was evidence of a spiritual imbalance—an unwillingness to acknowledge my own imperfection as a teacher and human being.

A Poetics Of Student Writing, Dennis Young

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Focusing on student reflective essays about learning writing, I rely on depth psychology and hermeneutics to illustrate the image-making, poetic dimension of student work.

Being There: Revising The Discourse Of Emotion And Teaching, Dale Jacobs

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This essay explores the fine line that exists between teacher engagement and teacher burnout and suggests strategies for teachers and mentors of teachers to help negotiate this line.

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Felt Sensing Of Speech Acts In Written Genre Acquisition, Randall Popken

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This paper theorizes about the experiential dimension of acquiring rhetorical genres—specifically the way developing writers rely on felt sensing when they encounter the "core" of genres: illocutionary speech acts.

Teacher Growing Pains, Carolina Mancuso

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Reflecting on a teacher education course which incorporated experiential learning in an exploratory pedagogy, the author examines how the relationship between teachers and students can affect both personal and professional lives, particularly in periods of individual transition.

Flow, Centering, And The Classroom: Wisdom From An Ancient Friend, Lorie Heggie

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Understanding "flow" and drawing on the metaphor of the dialectic that occurs between horse and rider can guide us to create a centered classroom.

Connecting, Helen Walker, Laura Milner, Candace Walworth, Dave Waddell, Vic Kryston, Richard L. Graves

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Laura Milner—Steve's Story.

Candace Walworth—War & Peace in a Two-Car Garage.

Dave Waddell—Caring.

Vic Kryston—Ralph and the Unexpected Fix.

Richard L. Graves—The Abraham Dream.

Reviews, Lisa Tyler, Fran Claggett, Bruce Novak, Neal Lerner

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Lisa Tyler. Writing and Healing: Toward an Informed Practice. (Charles M. Anderson and Marian M. MacCurdy, eds., 2000).

Fran Claggett. Revisioning Writers' Talk: Gender and Culture in Acts of Composing. (Mary Ann Cain, 1995).

Bruce Novak. Tomorrow's Children: A Blueprint for Partnership Education in the 21st Century. (Riane Eisler, 2000).

Neal Lerner. Stories from the Center: Connecting Narrative and Theory in the Writing Center. (Lynn Craigue Briggs and Meg Woolbright, eds., 2000).

Discredited Metaphors Of Mind Limit Our Vision, Marilyn Middendorf

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Teachers will be intrigued by recent discoveries in "the brain sciences" and the new metaphors of consciousness they suggest.

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Kisah Nabi Nuh Alayh Al-Salam Dalam Al-Qur'an : Suatu Kajian Tentang Metodologi Pemantapan Akidah Umat Islam, Arpandi Ismail

Student Works (2000-2009)

Kajian ini bertujuan untuk memperlihatkan kedudukan kisah dalam Al-Qur'an dan matlamat serta peranannya dalam memberikan pengajaran kepada umat Islam khususnya para du'at, dengan rujukan khusus kepada kisah Nabi Nub a.s. Kajian ini mengandungi bab-bab sei,erti berikut: Bab satu pendahuluan, dalam bab ini mengandungi pengenalan tajuk, latar belakang masalah, alasan memilih judul, pengertian judul dan perumusan masalah, objektif kajian, metodologi penyelidikan dan akhir sekali sistematika penulisan. Bab kedua pula, membincangkan tentang kisah AlQur'an, definisi kisah, Al-Qur'an dan kisah, jenis-jenis kisah al-Quran matlamat kisah al-Quran, berulangnya kisah Al-Quran, hikmah berulangnya kisah, contoh-contoh pengulangan kisah, turut dibahas juga kisah Aal-Qur'an dan sejarah, ciri-ciri …

The Widening Gyre: Images As Central To The Global Village, Mark Smith

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The image is emerging as the lingua franca of technological culture, both resurrecting characteristics of pre-literate classicism and consolidating the global community.

Penghasilan Dan Penilaian Formatif Modul Pembelajaran Kendiri Hukum Tajwid Nun Sakinah (Nun Mati) Dan Tanwin Dan Mim Sakinah (Mim Mati) Di Dalam Pendidikan Islam Kbsm, Sharipah Zainah Syed Abdul Rahman

Student Works (2000-2009)

The design and formative evaluation of self instructed module for the tajwid rule Nun Saklnah (Nun Mali) and Tanwin and Mim Saklnah (Mim Mati) in Pendidikan Islam KllSM 111e purpose of the research is to produce a self instructed module, which will act s a guidance for both teacher, and learners in the teaching and learning process. This module re!atcd to the Arabic Linguistic (tajwid), the rnle for Nun Sakinah (Nun Mati) and Tanwin and Mim Sakinah (Mim Mati). "This is in due to the fact that there is no specific method used teaching those rules. Generally, the proedure of …

Feminist Spiritualities: A Brief Overview, Marilyn R. Pukkila

Faculty Scholarship

A bibliographic essay on the early beginnings of feminist spirituality literature, from the 1960s to 1998.

The Literature Of Contemporary Witchcraft: Formalists, Femininsts, And Free Spirits, Marilyn R. Pukkila

Faculty Scholarship

A bibliographic essay on the writings of contemporary Witchcraft, from the late 1890s to 1998.

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Zen students, Charlotte Joko Beck tells us, have a job to do, "a very important job: to bring . . . life out of dreamland and into the real and immense reality that it is" (12). The goal and the way to the goal are the same: mindfulness, a return to the clear experience of the present moment, within which the artificial dualism separating self and object dissolves. To be mindful is to be aware, The American Heritage Dictionary says, to hold in the fullness of mind rather than to be destitute of mind or consciousness. Mindfulness is …

Writer Motivation: Beyond The Intrinsic/ Extrinsic Dichotomy, Bradford A. Barry

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This article articulates and develops a much needed theory of communication motivation which shows how we can nurture in our students rhetorically-based intrinsic motivations.

The Ethics Of Empathy: Making Connections In The Writing Classroom, Kia Jane Richmond

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Kia Jane Richmond teaches composition and ESL at Illinois State University, where she is completing her Ph.D. in English Studies. Her focus is on the intersection between emotions and the teaching of composition at the college level.

The Architectonics Of Information: Ancient Topical Thought And Postmodern Information, Catherine L. Hobbs

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This paper examines the usefulness of thought patterns from ancient rhetoric as they have been appropriated historically and as potentially applicable concepts for the present and future in today's interlinked electronic environment.

An earlier version of this paper, first delivered as part of a panel at the Rhetoric Society of America meeting at Tucson in May 1 996, was delivered and published as "The Architectonics of Information: Ancient Topical Thought and Postmodern Cognition" in Proceedings of the Mid-America Symposium on E merging Computer Technologies, October 1 996. (The published papers are available in "Information Problems" at http://www.ou.edu/cas/english/agora/). I would like …

Learning From Everyone, David Bleich

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In the teaching of writing and literature, it would be helpful to teachers and students to encourage students to overtake, use, and reuse one another's various uses of language in essays and other course work.

This essay was the keynote address at the Fourth Annual Colorado Conference of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning in Estes Park, Colorado in June 1998.

Narratives Of Pain: Trauma And The Healing Power Of Writing, Lisa Tyler

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Writing about traumatic events is useful, healing, and meaningful, and such work deserves a place in the composition classroom.

Jaepl, Vol. 5, Winter 1999-2000

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David Bleich. Learning from Everyone. In the teaching of writing and literature, it would be helpful to teachers and students to encourage students to overtake, use, and reuse one another's various uses of language in essays and other course work.

Lisa Tyler. Narratives of Pain: Trauma and the Healing Power of Writing. Writing about traumatic events is useful, healing, and meaningful, and such work deserves a place in the composition classroom.

Bradford A. Barry. Writer Motivation: Beyond the Intrinsic/Extrinisic Dichotomy. This article articulates and develops a much needed theory of communication motivation which shows how we …

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Spirituality In Pedagogy: "A Field Of Possibilities", Susan A. Schiller

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Students' responses to a spiritual approach to teaching provide evidence of the efficacy inherent in such an approach.

Reviews, Anne E. Mullin, Keith Rhodes, Ellen Davis, Jean R. Trounstine

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Reviews

Anne E. Mullin. Teaching Writing Creatively. (David Starkey, Ed., 1998).

Keith Rhodes. Zen in the Art of Rhetoric: An Inquiry into Coherence. (Mark Lawrence McPhail, 1996).

Ellen Davis. Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women. (Jane Hirshfield, Ed., 1994).

Jean R. Trounstine. Educational Drama and Language Arts: What Research Shows. (Betty Jane Wagner, 1998).

Information Resources In Interdisciplinary Writing Program (Iwp) Courses: Winter And Spring 1998, Anne E. Zald, Nana Lowell

Library Faculty Research

The University of Washington (UW) Interdisciplinary Writing Program (IWP) provides five-credit expository writing courses each of which is linked to a discipline-based lecture course. Students enroll in both the writing and discipline-based courses, and complementary assignments allow them to improve their writing skills within a subject area of their own particular interest. In Winter and Spring of 1998, the UW UWired program sponsored a pilot program adding librarian-taught class sessions to existing IWP courses. These sessions focused on the use of information resources in the context of student research for writing assignments. Post-course questionnaires were composed primarily of items drawn …

大村歲月 : 抗戰時期嶺南在粵北, 大村歲月出版組

Historical Texts of Lingnan University 嶺南大學歷史特藏

1942-1945年抗曰戰爭後期, 嶺南大學和附中在粵北仙人廟嶺大村的幾年, 正是烽火連天, 國家多難的歲月。那幾年, 對當時的嶺南人來說, 是風雨同舟、苦樂與共的歲月, 是正當身心發育、學業奠基的歲月, 是物資缺乏、精神旺盛的歲月, 是感情豐富、思想單純的歲月。每個人的經歷和感受不盡相同。大體來說, 那時有挫折、有憧憬、有憤怒, 有歡欣。那充滿挑戰的日子, 也同時是充滿值得懷念的好時光。

花開花落, 雲捲雲舒。青山不老, 綠水長流。緬懷過去, 可以帶來安慰, 也可以帶來歡樂。本集本著 "兼容並包, 自由思想" 的嶺南傳统。文章不按立場觀點角度取捨。文稿內容、形式、文體都不拘一格。這正如有些同學把閒話當年當作"精神聚餐"。甜酸苦辣, 南北東西, 名餚小炒, 都是我們在祖國苦難時代的生活。文章的編排, 除前輩的頭三篇外, 均按所屬級社先後為序。排名不分先後。

别矣大村! 滄海桑田, 當年校園已蕩然無存。原來風華正茂的少年同學, 如今已是白髮蒼蒼的長者。曾在嶺大村就讀的同窗, 無論是本集的作者或讀者, 回首前塵, 撫今追昔, 都會慶幸大家今朝依然健在; 慶幸大家能夠分享這雪泥鴻爪, 舊影餘香; 慶幸往事如煙, 但記憶長存, 友誼長在!

樟林已矣! 幸新芽已成長, 並開枝散葉。我們不敢奢望本集有 "以勵來兹" 的作用, 但願後來者能看到前人的一點足跡, 能體會過去的一點艱辛和那一點愛國愛嶺南之心, 已經是了不起的收獲,可以得到我們誠擎的祝福了。

Attitudes Toward Writing, Laurence E. Musgrove

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This essay describes one teacher's approach to helping students understand the role attitude plays in contributing to or interfering with success in the writing class.