This article traces the emergence of nineteenth-century U.S. high schools in the landscape of higher education, attending to the gendered, raced, and classed distinctions at play in this development. Exploring differences in the conceptualization and status of high schools in Louisville, Kentucky, for white male, white female, and mixed-gender…

This book focuses on appropriate English for Academic Purposes instructional concepts and methods in the Japanese context. It investigates a variety of pedagogical techniques, addressing the fundamental academic English skills -- listening, speaking, reading and writing -- as well as assessment and materials development. All the research included…

2011 marks the Centennial of the National Council of Teachers of English, and to commemorate this milestone, CCC will publish two Symposia, one in this issue of the journal, and a second in June. Here we learn from Erika Lindemann about the founding of both NCTE and CCCC; about how both groups have developed; and, drawing from these histories,…

This dissertation reports case studies from in-depth phenomenological interviewing of six individual female university students. The purpose of this dissertation was to describe the influence that literature experiences have had on the identity formation of said participant informants through recursive analysis of their interviews, observing how…

Crossing the threshold from high school to college-level writing expectations constitutes a challenge for many students since secondary and post-secondary composition instructors often work under different constraints and are guided by different curricular philosophies. Dual enrollment classrooms provide a space where these differences can be…

As a topic of concern to educational researchers, writing is enjoying something of a renaissance, particularly with respect to the transition between secondary and post-secondary levels of schooling. In the context of this renewed interest, this article presents a framework for understanding composition that integrates cognitive, textual and…

Outlines the problems which most novice writers confront and suggests ways to overcome inertia, organize content, and produce. (KS)

Describes using the beginning of a Western story in a story completion exercise to stimulate writing. (TJ)

Reviews research on the context of writing and the composing process, and suggests further research questions, which need to be answered. (DD)

English teachers should publicly respond to criticism of the teaching of writing by asking that more writing classes be offered, writing be taught in small classes, and more writing be assigned in all classes. (DD)

Presented are several successful techniques used by practicing teachers of English composition to minimize the pain of paper grading, composition evaluation, and revision, for both students and teachers. (KC)

Recommends a process by which students learn to revise their own papers using a series of guidelines and questions. (TJ)

Discusses how the first author left his comfortable position at the university to teach high school full-time and how the second author left home to live the writer's life in New Orleans' French Quarter. Describes how they decided to pursue their respective projects, what a typical day was like, and what they learned. Addresses questions that have…

Describes a method for teaching composition which develops students' intellectual and literary skills. (RB)