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Courtney Lund O’Neil – Composition Forum, 2024
There is valuable scholarship on the importance of teaching narratives in the FYC classroom, but none does so through the frame of vulnerability. This paper explores, through an IRB approved case study, how composition teachers can best guide students to write powerful and well-crafted personal narratives to ignite students' own voices, histories,…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Personal Narratives, Student Attitudes, Writing Attitudes
Bruce A. Craft – Research Issues in Contemporary Education, 2024
This paper addresses the pedagogical implications of incorporating ChatGPT into the college English classroom specifically and, more broadly, into any college course with a focus on writing and research. Historically, advances in technology in the college classroom have characteristically promoted two juxtaposed reactions: relief and anxiety.…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, English Instruction, Writing Instruction
Cassandra Woody – College Composition and Communication, 2020
This article argues that rhetoric-focused first-year composition curricula may effectively use feminist revisions to rhetoric by employing a method the author calls "procedural feminism," or the distillation of feminist rhetorical practices and theory within curricular development that does not make feminism a topic students will…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Feminism, Freshman Composition, Curriculum Design
Lenker, Mark – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2017
The developmentalist conception of information's value makes learning the central consideration for evaluating information. Following philosopher Richard Kraut, this article argues that developmentalism provides an important complement to prevalent methods of teaching the evaluation of information. These methods emphasize (a) trustworthiness--for…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Teaching Methods, Librarians
Andersen, Rebekka – Composition Studies, 2016
In first-year writing (FYW), instructors want students to understand how reading texts in particular ways affects how and what they learn and, in turn, how and what they might communicate to their own readers. Because students tend to come to FYW predisposed to notice more visual aspects (e.g., headings, bulleted lists) than verbal aspects (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Rhetoric, Critical Thinking, Cues
Douglass-Little, Clare – CEA Forum, 2015
While a thematic approach to teaching is not a novel idea, the specific needs of the developmental writer and a diverse student body can find the continuity of a theme especially beneficial, and the theme of fear has proven particularly successful. The typical developmental composition course at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University includes a…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Writing Instruction, Thematic Approach, Teaching Methods
Bunn, Michael – College Composition and Communication, 2013
Teaching reading in terms of its connections to writing can motivate students to read and increase the likelihood that they find success in both activities. It can lead students to value reading as an integral aspect of learning to write. It can help students develop their understanding of writerly strategies and techniques. Drawing on qualitative…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Freshman Composition, Writing Instruction, Reading Instruction
Ritter, Kelly – College Composition and Communication, 2012
I draw upon Eileen Schell's notions of "maternal pedagogy" and an "ethic of care" to analyze archival material from the National Education Association and Educational Testing Service pilot "lay reader" programs of the 1950s and 1960s. I argue that there are striking similarities between the material and social circumstances of these postwar lay…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Educational Testing, Labor, Writing Teachers
Mery, Yvonne; Newby, Jill; Peng, Ke – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2012
This study investigates whether the type of instruction (a single face-to-face librarian-led instruction, instructor-led instruction, or an online IL course--the Online Research Lab) has an impact on student information literacy gains in a Freshman English Composition program. A performance-based assessment was carried out by analyzing…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Bibliographies, Information Literacy, Teaching Methods
Jesnek, Lindsey M. – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2011
Since its emergence in the 1960s, critics and instructors alike have lauded the benefits of peer collaboration in the college composition classroom, and more specifically, the value of peer editing. However, the benefits of peer editing are not necessarily realized in traditional entry level writing classes. A consultation of both quantitative and…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Editing, Cooperative Learning, Writing Instruction
Behrens, Susan; Mercer, Cindy – NADE Digest, 2011
This hypothetical case of a freshman wrestling with her identity as an English user demonstrates that the old categories of native and non-native speaker do not adequately describe today's college population. The lack of informed strategies in college writing courses to deal with students possessing different degrees of proficiency in English…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Writing Instruction, Language Proficiency, Student Placement
Lynch-Biniek, Amy – CEA Forum, 2009
Amy Lynch-Biniek begins by introducing popular yet controversial concepts presented in the Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein's "They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing" (NY: Norton & Company, 2006). As stated in the book's introduction, the goal of Graff and Birkenstein's text is "to demystify academic…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Higher Education, College English, Freshman Composition

Arms, Valarie Meliotes – Computers and Composition, 1988
Discusses creativity and the teacher's importance in providing a context that encourages creative thought. Contrasts the author's success in teaching technical writing to college juniors and seniors with her experiences in using the Macintosh personal computer to teach first year composition. Notes that computers alone cannot stimulate creativity.…
Descriptors: Creativity, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Teacher Role

Sirc, Jeffrey; Reynolds, Tom – Computers and Composition, 1990
Describes the use of local area networks (LANs) in basic college composition instruction. Offers examples of interchanges between student writers and peers reacting to compositions. Argues for freer student use of classroom networks in open discourse, as excessive limits on network use eviscerate its potential. (SG)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Collaborative Writing, Computer Assisted Instruction, Freshman Composition