Students Stretching Past Summary Toward Analysis: The APATSARC Drill in Composition
By Rebecca Weaver (rweaver@gsu.edu) For the last dozen years or so, I have been teaching something I call “The APATSARC Drill” in my composition classes. Students use it to do an analytical drill of a non-fiction text (usually a news column) we’ve read together,...
Ivan Ilyich and the Sophomore Survey
By Rick Diguette (rdiguette@gsu.edu) Sophomores who enroll in my world literature survey read major works dating from the mid-seventeenth century to the present. Deciding on which texts to assign, however, is always a daunting task. Developing a semester reading...
Watching before Writing: Integrating Visual and Verbal Literacy in the Composition Classroom
By Charles Fox (cfox4@gsu.edu) In his essay, “How to Teach Film Adaptations, and Why,” Thomas Leitch argues for restructuring English departments in a way that more accurately reflects our new vision of that which is literary. Whereas in a traditional English...
Time for Self-Evaluation: Responding to Student Writing
By Lauren Curtright (lcurtright@gsu.edu) English instructors at all levels of education, as well as the professional organizations that set our pedagogical standards, must take a hard look at our beliefs and practices about responding to students’ writing. In the face...
Feedback and Building the Foundation for Writing
by Jennifer M. Colatosti (jcolatosti@gsu.edu) In my first semester teaching at Perimeter College, I was assigned three sections of the Foundations for English Composition Learning Support class. The purpose of the Foundations class is to help underprepared students...Subscribe by Email
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