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Download full textTedrow, Mary K. – Inquiry, 2020
The initial composition course in the community college has the potential to be a transformative space for the identity formation of adult learners towards the linguistic signifier of "scholar." Freshman students of variable ages enter a new culture which demands the negotiation of an alternative academic language, an adaptation to the…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Community Colleges, Self Concept
Head, Alison J.; DeFrain, Erica; Fister, Barbara; MacMillan, Margy – Online Submission, 2019
This paper reports results from a mixed-methods study about how college students engage with news when questions of credibility and "fake news" abound in the U.S. Findings are based on 5,844 online survey responses, one open-ended survey question (N=1,252),and 37 follow-up telephone interviews with students enrolled at 11 U.S. colleges…
Descriptors: News Reporting, Student Behavior, Credibility, Information Sources
Bamba, Priscilla – Journal of Instructional Research, 2015
The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of how active learning took place in a class containing specific readings,cooperative and collaborative group work, and a writing assignment for college students at a Northern Virginia Community College campus (NVCC). Requisite knowledge, skills, learner characteristics, brain-based learning, and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Two Year Colleges
Bickerstaff, Sarah; Raufman, Julia – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2017
This paper documents the perceptions and experiences of faculty members in the midst of statewide reform efforts in Virginia and North Carolina to integrate developmental reading and writing courses. Using interview and focus group data from 161 faculty and administrators in both states (combined) as well as three detailed case studies of faculty…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Reading, Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction
Schuhart, Arthur – Inquiry, 2014
This article introduces a new course in the Virginia Community College System English Curriculum, "English 114: Scientific Writing." The article briefly reviews the concept of "science rhetoric," then discusses the intended audience and purpose of the course, and explains the basic goals of the course in relation to the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Science Instruction, Writing Instruction
Direct linkWelch, Kristen; Lee, Nicholas; Shuman, Dustin – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2010
An emphasis on visual rhetoric can be incorporated into a variety of classrooms. This article illustrates teaching visual rhetoric to first-year composition students via interpretation and analysis through a trip to a local art museum for the first essay assignment and through an exploration of photography for the second essay assignment. In the…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Rhetoric, Essays, Museums
