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Submissions from 2015
Instruction through Narrative: The High Stakes of Technical Communication Narratives for Youth, Lisa Dusenberry
Provoking Choice: Defamiliarizing Presentations with Multimodal Demonstrations, Lisa Dusenberry
Strategic Learning through Alternate Reality Games: The Reward of Risking a Semester with Linked Multimodal Projects, Lisa Dusenberry
The Potential Benefits of Semantic Mapping for L2 Writers, Jinrong Li
Understanding Variations Between Student and Teacher Application of Rubrics, Jinrong Li and Peggy J. Lindsey
A Story We Can Live With: Privatizing National Identity in the Fight to “Light Up Africa”, Jane V. Rago
To Go West: Travelogues, Nationality, and the Dissonance of Self, Jane V. Rago
Submissions from 2014
Cultural Memory and the Holocaust in America: Gendered Touchpoints across the Kairotic Timescape, Lisa A. Costello
Annotated Learner Corpus and Revision for L2 Learners, Jinrong Li
‘So the Borders Here Are Not Really Fixed:’ Sustaining Gender Studies Through Global Literacy & Activist Pedagogy, Jane V. Rago
Teaching Global Citizenship Through Service Learning: Is Domestic or International Context a Contributing Factor?, Jane V. Rago
Submissions from 2013
Envisioning the Relationships of Memory Narratives: Region as Strategy in Local Holocaust Museums in the United States, Lisa A. Costello
Teaching Genres of the Holocaust as a Dialogic of History and Memory, Lisa A. Costello
Online and Blended Learning with Google and Folio, Laura E. Valeri
Submissions from 2012
Local Testimonies: How Regional Holocaust Museums in the United States Impact the Future of Holocaust Memory, Lisa A. Costello
Re-Framing the Holocaust for the Future: How Regional Holocaust Museums in the United States Impact Holocaust Memory, Lisa A. Costello
Journeying Through the Fallow Mind: Transcending Writers’ Block at The Desk and In the Classroom, Laura E. Valeri
Submissions from 2011
Embodying Difference: Building Community through Critical and Transcultural Literacies, Lisa A. Costello
Feminist Art Activism: Mentoring Art Students through Genre Writing, Lisa A. Costello
Research in the Creative Writing Classroom: Methods, Pedagogies, Dilemmas, Laura E. Valeri
Submissions from 2010
Heavenly Genes: New Mothers of England, Jane V. Rago
Fledge: Promoting Student Research through Publication, Laura E. Valeri
The Road Less Taken and the Ivory Tower: Getting Creative about Creative Careers, Laura E. Valeri
The Soul and the Machine: Teaching Creativity with Technology, Laura E. Valeri
Submissions from 2009
Blogging a Research Paper? How Genre Juxtaposition Improves Student Academic Research and Writing, Lisa A. Costello
Service Learning and ‘Action Research’: Comparing the Ripple Effect of Civic Responsibility in Local Spheres and Web/Blogospheres, Lisa A. Costello
Writing About Science/ Writing About Chemistry, Timothy D. Giles, Mark Richardson, and Jessica Orvis
Building Stories From The Sentence Up, Laura E. Valeri
Our Roots Are Deep with Passion – Creative Nonfiction Presents New Italian American Writers, Laura E. Valeri
Teaching Fiction with Technology, Laura E. Valeri
The Tree and the Leaves: Using Paradigms for Teaching Fiction, Laura E. Valeri
Writing Dialog That Breathes, Laura E. Valeri
Submissions from 2008
And All the 'net a Stage: The Internet as Text in the First-Year Composition Classroom, Timothy D. Giles
Recruiting Technical Communication Students from First-Year Composition, Timothy D. Giles
‘A Nice Paper to put in a Girl’s Hand’: Circulating the Erotic in The Beach of Falesá, Jane V. Rago
Heavenly Genes: Eugenic Motherhood and the Rebirth of a Nation, Jane V. Rago
Can Library Slam Dunk Comedy Central?, Laura E. Valeri
Querying WebCT, Laura E. Valeri
Sewanee Fellows, Laura E. Valeri
Submissions from 2007
Rhetoric of Science in the First-Year Composition Classroom, Timothy D. Giles
What Students Can Expect in the Electronic Classroom, Timothy D. Giles
“Heavenly Genes”: Eugenic Motherhood and the Rebirth of a Nation, Jane V. Rago
Advisors Forum, Laura E. Valeri
Submissions from 2006
A Developing Program Develops Relations with Industry, Timothy D. Giles
Cloning Zombies: A Motive for Metaphor, Timothy D. Giles
Agents and Contracts, Laura E. Valeri
Submissions from 2005
Assessing Creative Writing, Laura E. Valeri
Submissions from 2004
New Voices from Miami – Gulf Stream Magazine Presents, Laura E. Valeri
Submissions from 2003
Creating Community in the First-Year Composition Classroom, Timothy D. Giles
Submissions from 2001
Revisiting Readability, Timothy D. Giles
Submissions from 1996
Mystery as Source in the Fiction of Philip K. Dick, Timothy D. Giles
Submissions from 1994
Ain't Got No Cigarettes: The Misrepresentation of Homeless People in Popular Culture, Timothy D. Giles
