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Shafer, Gregory – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2011
This essay is about the process of discovering and trying to help an exceptional student who was grappling with issues of real-life violence and incarceration and the desire to articulate their meaning to his life through writing. It describes how this student empowered himself to reflect on and deconstruct the meaning of his incarceration and how…
Descriptors: College Students, English Instruction, Higher Education, Violence
Shafer, Gregory – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2012
In this article, the author talks about the college writing center, which is a place of political confrontation, where cultural issues involving dialect and values are probed, contested, and negotiated. He suggests a post-process approach to composition--one that ushers writers into a world of exploration and social engagement--one that transcends…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Values, Culture Conflict, Educational Theories
Requiring First-Year Writing Classes to Visit the Writing Center: Bad Attitudes or Positive Results?
Gordon, Barbara Lynn – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2008
The attempt of writing center consultants to discourage faculty from requiring classes to visit the writing center led to research that calls this longstanding practice into question. In the early days of the proliferation of writing centers, faculty were advised not to require either individual students or entire classes to go to the writing…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Laboratories, Barriers, Writing Assignments