even more for religion in the writing classroom bibliography

I’m baaaack!
Anderson, Chris. Teaching as Believing: Faith in the University. Baylor UP, 2004. Ordered via Amazon, early April ‘08.
Thelin, William Howard. A PARTICIPANT OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF A WRITING CLASSROOM USING POLITICIZED READINGS AS A CORPUS FOR ESSAY ASSIGNMENTS. Diss. Indiana U of Pennsylvania, 1997. ILL’d 4-10-08 297676
ABSTRACT. This study examines a first year writing course [...]

more for religion in the writing classroom bibliography

Groppe, John D. “The Writing Classroom as a Spiritual Site of Composing.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (46th, Washington, DC, March 23-25, 1995).
ABSTRACT: The academic setting for many students is frightening, but it is especially so for students with a strong religious background. For such students, [...]

a start on a bibliography on religion in the writing classroom

Anderson, Chris. “The Description of an Embarrassment: When Students Write about Religion.” ADE Bulletin 094 (Winter 1989): 12-15. (I have a digital copy.) Addendum 01-14-08: here’s a link to this article: http://web2.ade.org/ade/bulletin/n094/094012.htm
Dively, Ronda Leathers. “Censoring Religious Rhetoric in the Composition Classroom: What We and Our Students May Be Missing.” Composition Studies/Freshman English News, v25 [...]

First day of the second week… some help from Thoreau

Based on my blog stats, I don’t have too many readers lately. But for those of you who do check in or happen upon my blog, I apologize for being so rare a blogger. I haven’t found my rhythm yet as a graduate student, the rhythm that will allow me to do other [...]

Vicki Tolar Burton article on John Wesley (note to self: get a copy)

Vicki Tolar Burton, “John Wesley and the Liberty to Speak: The Rhetorical and Literacy Practices of Early Methodism.” College Composition and Communication, Vol. 53, No. 1 (Sep., 2001), pp. 65-91 doi:10.2307/359063
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0010-096X(200109)53%3A1%3C65%3AJWATLT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y#abstract

Teaching Harry Potter and fantasy literature

Three articles I got from the recent NCTE newsletter:
Cruz, Maria Colleen, and Kate B. Pollock. “Stepping into the Wardrobe: A Fantasy Genre Study.” Language Arts 81.3 (January 2004): 184–195. [downloaded a copy]
Wallace, David L., and Tison Pugh. “Teaching English in the World: Playing with Critical Theory in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series.” English Journal [...]

Gen 1.5 writers

I don’t know how many Hispanic Gen 1.5 students I’ll be working with at OSU, but I don’t want to lose track of some of the articles I’ve found/used over the last couple years.
Barr, Linda. “Culture: Expectations and Differences, Generation 1.5 Students” in “Tutoring the ESL Student” an online workshop by ATP (Association of Tutoring [...]

“bibme” bibliography generator

Here’s what looks like a great citation generator: BibMe.  It auto-fills information from source (using amazon.com and other databases), and creates a bibliography which you can download in rtf format (including hanging indent).   And I checked it; it does the citations correctly (always a good thing!).  Even once you’ve recreated your bibliography, you can still morph them [...]

Link to “New Testament, Byzantine, Patristic and Early Medieval Rhetoric: Selected Sources”

For future reference, a short bibliography from Wake Forest University: New Testament, Byzantine, Patristic and Early Medieval Rhetoric: Selected Sources.

Spiritual Sites of Composing

Berthoff, Ann E., et al. “Interchanges: Spiritual Sites of Composing.” College Composition and Communication 45 (1994): 237-63.
A couple weeks ago I picked up a dozen or so CCC journals (mostly from the early 90s, I think) outside the English department (an instructor had left them for anyone to take — and what a [...]