JAEPL, Vol. 19, Winter 2013-2014
Essays Peter Elbow - Using Careless Speech for Careful, Well-Crafted Writing - Whatever Its Style Keith Rhodes & Monica M. Robinson - Sheep in Wolves' Clothing: How Composition's Social...
View ArticleUsing Careless Speech for Careful, Well-Crafted Writing— Whatever Its Style
Bringing the resources of speech to writing enables writers to understand and attain written eloquence.
View ArticleSheep in Wolves’ Clothing: How Composition’s Social Construction Reinstates...
Reframing the theory of social construction from Romantic/ Classic perspectives yields surprising insights about writing studies.
View ArticleThe Journey Metaphor’s Entailments for Framing Learning
Analysis of differing frames for learning to write shows that the journey metaphor best serves our efforts to convey how writing and learning are linked.
View ArticleA Teacher’s Terminal Illness in the Secondary Classroom: The Effects of...
How does it affect learning when cancer becomes the prevailing metaphor through which students see their teacher?
View ArticleIt’s (Not) Just a Figure of Speech: Rescuing Metaphor
Look for ways that students can study metaphor in everyday language, rather than confine its study to poetry.
View ArticleThe Power of the Poetic Lens: Why Teachers Need to Read Poems Together
Poetry reading circles can become the means for new (and experienced) teachers to reflect on their professional growth.
View ArticleStillness in the Composition Classroom: Insight, Incubation, Improvisation,...
Studies of brain images provide scientific justification for encouraging meditation among young writers.
View ArticleFear Not the Trunchbull: How Teaching from a Humorous Outlook Supports...
Empirical and historical evidence suggest that humor is a key tool for discovering ways in which learning can become transformative.
View ArticleThoughts on Teaching as a Practice of Love
Approaching classroom diversity from a Nichiren Buddhist perspective guides students toward a “value-creating education.”
View ArticleBook Reviews
Book Reviews Judy Halden-Sullivan - Making the Familiar Unfamiliar Karen Walker - Ritchhart, Ron, Mark Church, and Karin Morrison. Making Thinking Visible. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2011....
View ArticleLearning and Teaching in Other Ways
A teaching and learning consultant suggests that “oscillating narratives” are the means for helping unconventional students become critically aware.
View ArticleConnecting
Connecting Helen Walker - Gratitude Bob Randolph - Poetry Teacher's Prayer Leigh Ann Chow - What Teachers Carry Andrea Saylor - A Brief History of Holy Writing Jill Moyer Sunday - For My Students...
View ArticleRenovating My Academic Administration
A department chair dons a hard hat and begins to see her position through the lens of spiritual rebirth and figured worlds—as a portrait of Calvin looks on.
View ArticleTelling the Truth as WPA
After reflecting upon students, a writing program administrator looks hard at two other challenging situations and questions the truthfulness of her approaches to each.
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Book Reviews Judy Halden-Sullivan - Paradigm Shifts Lauren DiPaula - Price, Margaret. Mad At School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011....
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Connecting Helen Walker - Trust, and Gaps Carl Vandermeulen - Proverbs for Poetry Class Louise Morgan - TJ, Whom I Like Very Much Jill Moyer Sunday - History Lesson 101 Tony Mayo - Shawn
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