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Anne Ruggles Gere; Anne Curzan; J. W. Hammond; Sarah Hughes; Ruth Li; Andrew Moos; Kendon Smith; Kathryn Van Zanen; Kelly L. Wheeler; Crystal J. Zanders – College Composition and Communication, 2021
Critical language awareness offers one approach to communal "justicing," an iterative and collective process that can address inequities in the disciplinary infrastructure of Writing Studies. We demonstrate justicing in the field's pasts, policies, and publications; offer a model of communal revision; and invite readers to become agents…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Justice
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Jerry Won Lee; Christopher Jenks – College Composition and Communication, 2016
Translingual dispositions, characterized by a general openness to plurality and difference in the ways people use language, are central for all users of English in a globalized society, and the fostering of such proclivities is an imperative to the contemporary composition classroom. In this article, we analyze student writing that emerged from a…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Translation, Language Usage, Intercollegiate Cooperation
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Horner, Bruce; NeCamp, Samantha; Donahue, Christiane – College Composition and Communication, 2011
Against the limitations English monolingualism imposes on composition scholarship, as evident in journal submission requirements, frequency of references to non-English medium writing, bibliographical resources, and their own past work, the authors argue for adopting a translingual approach to languages, disciplines, localities, and research…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Multilingualism, Monolingualism, Scholarship
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Frost, Alanna – College Composition and Communication, 2011
This essay suggests a companion term to "literacy sponsors" that better mirrors the practice and protection of traditional literacies evident in the cases of two Dakelh elders. "Literacy steward" introduces a theoretical means to describe community members whose rhetorical decisions depend on traditions that are alternative to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Canada Natives, Ethnography, Females
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Moulder, M. Amanda – College Composition and Communication, 2011
This article discusses how archival documents reveal early nineteenth-century Cherokee purposes for English-language literacy. In spite of Euro-American efforts to depoliticize Cherokee women's roles, Cherokee female students adapted the literacy tools of an outsider patriarchal society to retain public, political power. Their writing served…
Descriptors: American Indians, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Literacy
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Rumsey, Suzanne Kesler – College Composition and Communication, 2009
This article presents the concept of heritage literacy, a decision-making process by which people adopt, adapt, or alienate themselves from tools and literacies passed on between generations of people. In an auto-ethnographic study, four generations of a single family and Amish participants from the surrounding community were interviewed to…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Heritage Education, Literacy, Alienation
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Sullivan, Patricia – College Composition and Communication, 2012
Our pedagogical histories lean on textbooks, institutional records, and the words of famous teachers. Students rarely appear in situ. Here, the voices of two very different Progressive Era students cast spotlights on the shadows of long-ago classroom practices--offering a liveliness that is difficult to recover, but worth seeking. (Contains 5…
Descriptors: Textbooks, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition)
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Lyon, Arabella – College Composition and Communication, 2009
Responding to cultural concerns about the ownership of writing and the nature of plagiarism, this article examines discourses about plagiarism by ESL students and argues for a plurality of approaches to understanding the ownership of language and textual appropriation. First, it uses speech act theory to explain the dynamics of plagiarism; second,…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Plagiarism, Ownership, Ethics
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Nicotra, Jodie – College Composition and Communication, 2009
Metaphors that posit writing as linear, essayistic, and the province of a single author no longer fit the dynamic, newly spatialized practices of composition occurring on and via the Web. Using "folksonomy," or multi-user tagging, as an example of one of these practices, this article argues for a new metaphor for writing that encapsulates how…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Figurative Language, Internet, Classification
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Canagarajah, A. Suresh – College Composition and Communication, 2006
Contesting the monolingualist assumptions in composition, this article identifies textual and pedagogical spaces for World Englishes in academic writing. It presents code meshing as a strategy for merging local varieties with Standard Written English in a move toward gradually pluralizing academic writing and developing multilingual competence for…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Morphemes, English (Second Language), Language Variation
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MacDonald, Susan Peck – College Composition and Communication, 2007
This article traces a decline in CCCC sessions on language along with a shift toward more reductive definitions. It analyzes early CCCC treatment of language issues, the Students' Right document, changes in demographics and linguistics, and shifts within English departments that have left us overdue for professional reexamination of our role as…
Descriptors: English Departments, Language Maintenance, Language Variation, Diachronic Linguistics
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Ortmeier-Hooper, Christina – College Composition and Communication, 2008
In this essay, I present three case studies of immigrant, first-year students, as they negotiate their identities as second language writers in mainstream composition classrooms. I argue that such terms as "ESL" and "Generation 1.5" are often problematic for students and mask a wide range of student experiences and expectations. (Contains 9 notes.)
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), English (Second Language), Immigrants, Classroom Environment
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Marzluf, Phillip P. – College Composition and Communication, 2006
Though diversity serves as a valuable source for rhetorical inquiry, expressivist instructors who privilege diversity writing may also overemphasize the essential authenticity of their students' vernaculars. This romantic and salvationist impulse reveals the troubling implications of eighteenth-century Natural Language Theory and may,…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Linguistic Performance, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory
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Elbow, Peter – College Composition and Communication, 2006
Written words are laid out in space and exist on the page all at once, but a reader can only read a few words at a time. For readers, written words are trapped in the medium of time. So how can we best organize writing for readers? Traditional techniques of organization tend to stress the arrangement of parts in space and certain metadiscoursal…
Descriptors: Written Language, Language Arts, Time, Scientific Concepts
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Zamel, Vivian – College Composition and Communication, 1995
Reviews faculty and student attitudes concerning the learning and growth of students for whom English is a second language (ESL students). Draws on case studies and hundreds of ESL student statements to evaluate the state of educational approaches and the directions they seem to be moving in. (TB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Skills
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