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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
Marshall, Laura Hardin; Lynch, Paul – Composition Studies, 2020
The Writing Program (WP) at Saint Louis University has striven to create a course that draws on a richer disciplinary understanding of writing and rhetoric. The standard course structure, from which instructors are asked to fashion their own syllabi, asks students to pursue a scaffolded semester-long project. As they pursue the scaffolded…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Freshman Composition, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), English Instruction
Kushkaki, Mariam – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Despite its rich history in the English classroom, popular culture still does not have a strong foothold in first-year composition (FYC). Some stakeholders view popular culture as a "low-brow" topic of study (Bradbury, 2011), while others believe popular culture distracts students from learning about composition (Adler-Kassner, 2012).…
Descriptors: Course Content, Popular Culture, English Instruction, Literary Genres
Blackburn, Jessica – Composition Forum, 2012
This article addresses two central research questions: (1) Are there possible detrimental implications to teaching multimodal composition in first-year composition? (2) If so, what is pedagogy's role in mediating these outcomes? Guided by these questions and focused on the responses of eighty seven first-year composition students, a mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Methods Research, Teaching Methods, Freshman Composition, Feminism
Froehlich, Maggie Gordon; Froehlich, Peter Alan – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2013
In November 2008, the National Council of Teachers of English published "The NCTE Definition of 21st Century Literacies" (21CL); its objectives include using technology, producing and analyzing multimedia texts, accessing and evaluating complex research sources, building relationships to enable collaboration, considering the diversity of a global…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Curriculum Implementation, Multiple Literacies, Instructional Innovation
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
DuPre, Carrie; Erickson, Samm; Diguette, Richard; Bobkoff, Michael; Ratliff, Gerald Lee; Dirk, Kerry – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2008
This article presents the techniques used by six teachers for their writing classes. To help her students get their topics on paper, Carrie DuPre instructs her students to call themselves on their cellphones and leave themselves a message on voice mail. Samm Erickson asks his students with laptops to be "the researchers" in their literature class.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Strategies, Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation
Fishman, Jenn; Reiff, Mary Jo – Composition Forum, 2008
Current theoretical conversations in the field of Rhetoric and Composition, particularly conversations related to first-year curricular design, are increasingly concerned with the issue of "teaching for transfer." While developing successful transfer pedagogy is a challenging undertaking, one that may require writing instructors to…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), English Instruction, Writing Instruction, Transfer of Training
Strasma, Kip – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2009
Peer-response remains a central process in first-year composition; faculty can make it effective and efficient by "spotlighting"--designing the process as digital, emergent, and distributive. In this article, the author first elaborates on his own use of peer-response terminology. He favors "peer-response" as the descriptive term for…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Freshman Composition, Peer Evaluation, Educational Technology
Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2009
This article presents an exchange between Kip Strasma and Elizabeth Tomlinson. Strasma responds to "Gender and Peer Response" by Tomlinson, and Tomlinson responds to Strasma's ""Spotlighting": Peer-Response in Digitally Supported First-Year Writing Courses." Both of them respond to each other's cross talk.
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Gender Issues, Educational Environment, Sociocultural Patterns

Lindemann, Erika – College English, 1995
Provides discussion and critical analysis of three key models for teaching freshman composition courses. Discusses approaches centered on writing as product, writing as process, and writing as system. Considers what might be the common ground that these three approaches to writing instruction share. (HB)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Models
Harned, Jon – Freshman English News, 1986
Discusses the philosophical thought of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault as it applies to writing instruction. (SRT)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, English Instruction, Expository Writing, Freshman Composition
Simpson, Isaiah – Freshman English News, 1987
Describes the successes and problems of one instructor's use of a pedagogy class to initiate teaching assistants in writing instruction with the benefit of an experienced instructor as a mentor. (HTH)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Course Content, English Instruction, Freshman Composition

Gamer, Michael – College English, 1995
Focuses on the debate about the role of literature in the freshman composition course. Argues that literary works are suitable for these courses because they hold multiple points of view and are by nature multidisciplinary. (HB)
Descriptors: Course Content, English Curriculum, English Instruction, Freshman Composition

Peterson, Jane – College English, 1995
Focuses on the debate regarding the use of literary texts in freshman composition courses. Questions the assumptions embedded in the framing of the debate itself. Asserts the blurring of genre lines. Proposes a way to reframe the debate in more fruitful terms. (HB)
Descriptors: English Curriculum, English Instruction, Freshman Composition, Higher Education