ERIC Number: ED288575
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1986
Pages: 52
Abstractor: N/A
Reference Count: N/A
ISBN: N/A
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Inside English: Journal of the English Council of the California Two-Year Colleges; Vol. XIII, Nos. 1-4, October 1985, December 1985, March 1986, and May 1986.
Bilson, Barbara, Ed.; Woodruff, Bert, Ed.
Inside English, v13 n1-4 Oct-May 1985-1986
Designed primarily for English faculty at two-year colleges in California, "Inside English" includes articles on instructional innovations in teaching remedial writing, literature courses, and freshman composition, and on major curricular, administrative, and employment issues in the field. The four issues of volume 13 include the following feature articles: (1) "Writing across the Curriculum: A Unique Value for Learning," by Nancy H. Nadeau; (2) "Writing for Learning: Programs and Ideas," by Trish Geddes; (3) "Blocking Assures Writing across the Curriculum: Innovation at Los Medanos College," by Connie Missimer; (4) "Paired Composition/Content Courses: The Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts," by Melinda Barth; (5) "Literature Classes at the Community Colleges. Teaching Lit in the Eighties: Go with the Flow?" by Melinda Barth; (6) "Heart Attitudes and Head Notions: Cummings on Composition," by Jack Gill; (7) "'Stopping by Eyes': The Way to the Poem," by Chon Jiardi; (8) "Literature's Reward: Making Order Out of Chaos," by Joyce Lipkis; (9) "Laughter and Literacy: Shakespeare Stoops to Conquer," by Lloyd Thomas; (10) "To Reach the Community College Students: A Rationale for Literature in the Composition Class," by Sara M. Walters; (11) "California Community Colleges: A New Era of Renewal, Revival, and Renaissance," by Jonnah Laroche; (12) "Literature in the Eighties: Literature as Part of Freshman Composition," by Arnold Solkov; (13) "Forty Years Later: Transfer and the English Placement Test," by Jack Gill; (14) "Teaching Literature in a Writing Class: A Workable Humanities Option OR Chasing Windmills?" by Ronald Hartwell; (15) "A Five-Step Plan: How to Sell Your Remedial Program," by Gloria Reid; (16) "Moving Beyond the Basics: On the Merits of Modeling," by Dyan Pike and Irene Menegas; (18) "Overall Teaching Plans: Methods, Textbooks, and Materials. Helping Students Achieve Writing Competence," by Cindy Hicks; (19) "Peer Tutors in the Community College," by Judy Markline; and (20) "The Writing Lab," by Barbara H. White-Wright. (AYC)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College English, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Content Area Writing, English Instruction, English (Second Language), Interdisciplinary Approach, Literature, Poetry, Remedial Instruction, Student Placement, Student Recruitment, Student Writing Models, Teaching Methods, Textbooks, Two Year Colleges, Writing (Composition), Writing Exercises, Writing Processes, Writing Skills
Publication Type: Collected Works - Serials; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: English Council of the California Two-Year Colleges.
Identifiers: Writing Across the Curriculum; Writing Laboratories
Note: This journal is printed in oversize form (11.5 x 14.5). All pages have been photographically reduced by ERIC to standard size (8.5 x 11) before microfiching. For the complete archival compilation of volumes 1-13 of "Inside English," see ED 272 238.
