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VanderStaay, Steven L.; Faxon, Beverly A.; Meischen, Jack E.; Kolesnikov, Karlene T.; Ruppel, Andrew D. – College Composition and Communication, 2009
In this article we provide a "portrait" of an exemplary writing teacher and the social construction of authority he established with students in two courses. The portrait demonstrates that teacher authority is most essentially a form of professional authority granted by students who affirm the teacher's expertise, self-confidence, and…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Writing Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship, Classroom Environment
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Corder, Jim W. – College Composition and Communication, 1981
Argues that teachers of rhetoric and teachers of literary studies have many interests in common and that these common interests should be cultivated. Offers four possible lines of inquiry for bringing rhetoric and literary study together. (RL)
Descriptors: College English, Higher Education, Inquiry, Literary Criticism
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Larmouth, Donald Wilford – College Composition and Communication, 1972
This is a program of investigation into a community and differs from other composition courses where the research is done in the library. (RB)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Community, Community Study, English Instruction
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Tinberg, Howard B. – College Composition and Communication, 1989
Recommends that students conduct ethnographic studies of language in their own communities. Emphasizes that the focus ought to be conventions of speaking and writing, as well as conventions that govern the conduct, the "texts," of a culture. (RAE)
Descriptors: Community Study, Cultural Differences, Discourse Communities, Ethnography