Some teaching strategies grow out of the curricula educators inherit or develop through professional reading; others originate in the aromatic humus of their autobiographies. This article presents a proposal that has its origins in the latter. The author recognized that what delights her in prose or poetry is the figurative language a writer uses…

In this article, the author reflects on teaching in a time of war, and she realizes that all of her education, all of her teaching, indeed, all of her life has been "in a time of war" and that she has been constantly influenced by war, rumors of war, fears of war. As she conceived, planned, collected information for, wrote, and revised…

Rhetorically challenging literature can be made to serve the purposes of first-year composition in new ways. Excerpts from the novels of Marcel Proust that focus on the author's characteristic scrutinizing, reflexive attention to style work successfully as models for assisting writers in acquiring the habits of reading and re-reading, and of…