The crosscurrents Series
- Maria Nichols offers not possible lessons but full descriptions of actual lessons. Here you’ll find no ivory-tower examples of what might be, but examples of what is already available in many classrooms. These are classrooms of the sort that we hope our children and grandchildren are lucky enough to encounter—not once in a while but routinely.
—Richard L. Allington
- To say this is an exceptional
How does emotion shape the work of teachers and administrators in Composition Studies?
How are we schooled to use emotion in our professional lives?
What is the place of emotion in our academic relationships?
How do we think—and feel—about our feelings?
This groundbreaking volume offers a fresh and invigorating examination of emotion as a category of critical thought in Composition... more
How do composition teachers document their teaching? What types of documentation work best? Teaching portfolios, course portfolios, philosophy statements, classroom observation? How can these materials provide essential testimony about our classrooms and our achievements, not just to ourselves and our colleagues but to faculty supervisors, tenure and promotion committees, deans, and provosts? Documenting our work as teachers offers a rich... more
Dawn Skorczewski, Matthew Parfitt
Classroom crises challenge all writing instructors, especially when they are new to the field. But even an old pro's resources can be stretched thin when race or gender becomes an issue or, more insidiously, when a difficult student undermines the course, questions professorial authority, or—worst of all—creates an atmosphere of distrust and dislike. Situations like these can derail a semester, but they also can encourage a reexamination of composition... more
Mark Reynolds, Sylvia Holladay-Hicks
The 1960s: a time of protests and civil rights marches, sit-ins and speak-outs, free-love rallies and anti-establishment Yip-ins. Yet going largely unnoticed was another powerful revolution: the explosive growth of the two-year college. In The Profession of English in the Two-Year College, those on the front lines of this movement record how they successfully taught a new kind of student in a re-imagined postsecondary institution. Those... more
Provocative, thoughtful, informative, combative—a book that challenges us to come to terms once more with the teaching of English grammar.
How can we improve the verbal skills of American students? How can we strengthen them as readers and writers? How can we best prepare America's youth to succeed in the study of a foreign language? According to Classics professor David Mulroy, the most important answer is grammar! Whether championing... more