Beyond the Blank Pages
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 148
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 146
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Beyond the Blank Pages presents vital English composition skills while promoting student advocacy.
More than a typical English Composition textbook, Beyond the Blank Pages incorporates groundbreaking assignment prompts and discussion topics related directly to student experience to promote self-actualization and ultimately to build confidence.
Written in a conversational style, Beyond the Blank Pages frames much of the content around narrative and personal experience that offers teachers and students open areas of discussion to include personal, societal, professional, and academic goals.
Written in a flexible format suitable for any English Composition course, Beyond the Blank Pages:
- Encourages readers to become agents of their life while writing about it.
- Fuses conventional reading suggestions with current, experimental, and relevant suggestions that include films, journalistic articles and profiles, personal narratives, lyric essays, confessional writing, song lyrics, and more.
- Demystifies academic and English department pedagogy by encouraging readings, topics, and arguments that question dominant ideologies about course outcomes and assessment, student engagement, and what actually demonstrates knowledge and ability.
- Equips students with the citation, research, grammar, persuasion, letter writing, and professional writing skills necessary for future courses and the workplace.
Chapter 1: Finding Yourself in College and in Composition Class
Chapter 2: Analysis and Course Expectations: Yours and Mine
Suggested Materials
Chapter 3: Relationships and Language: The Power of Composing
Composition means, throughout a project, identifying several key elements
Focus, or what the thesis, anchor, or central idea of the work is
Audience, or who will read, hear, or see the work
Format, or mode, or what type of document you will create now that you have identified the focus, audience, and rhetorical nature of the project
Details, or all the important main ideas, descriptions, and necessary information about the topic
Autonomy, or the ability to control your project
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Chapter 4: Writing Narratives: The Story of You
Suggested Materials
Chapter 5: Being Absent: Student Engagement and Writing Persuasively
Suggested Materials
Chapter 6: Developing Student-Teacher Relationships and Assessment
Suggested Materials
Chapter 7: Talking to Your Professor, Office Hours, and Informative Rhetoric
Suggested Materials
Chapter 8: Working in Groups: Class Discussions, Community Development, and Synthesis
Suggested Materials
Chapter 9: Doing the Work: Drafting, Editing, and Revising
Suggested Materials
Chapter 10: Covering the Bases: MLA Format & Research
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Chapter 11: Letting It Go: Page Lengths, Word Counts, Number of Sources, and Thesis Statements
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Chapter 12: Taking Risks: Our Spheres, Identity, and “Scary” Course Material
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Chapter 13: On Coming Across: Establishing Tone and Voice
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Chapter 14: Student Crisis, Mental Health, Suicide, and Disclosure
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Chapter 15: Portfolios and Hearing from the Experts: Educators Weigh In
Introduction
Sam’s Reflection
On Teaching and Advising: Rewards and Challenges of Being a Professor or Advisor
On Student Success: What Educators Want You to Know about Writing and College
Final Words of Wisdom from Amazing Educators
Sam Bell lives in Lawrence, Kansas with her husband Dan and a cat named Gus, as you can see in their lovely family portrait. She is an Associate Professor of English at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. Sam holds two degrees from SUNY schools (B.A., Journalism, Geneseo and M.A., English, Brockport), and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kansas.
Beyond the Blank Pages presents vital English composition skills while promoting student advocacy.
More than a typical English Composition textbook, Beyond the Blank Pages incorporates groundbreaking assignment prompts and discussion topics related directly to student experience to promote self-actualization and ultimately to build confidence.
Written in a conversational style, Beyond the Blank Pages frames much of the content around narrative and personal experience that offers teachers and students open areas of discussion to include personal, societal, professional, and academic goals.
Written in a flexible format suitable for any English Composition course, Beyond the Blank Pages:
- Encourages readers to become agents of their life while writing about it.
- Fuses conventional reading suggestions with current, experimental, and relevant suggestions that include films, journalistic articles and profiles, personal narratives, lyric essays, confessional writing, song lyrics, and more.
- Demystifies academic and English department pedagogy by encouraging readings, topics, and arguments that question dominant ideologies about course outcomes and assessment, student engagement, and what actually demonstrates knowledge and ability.
- Equips students with the citation, research, grammar, persuasion, letter writing, and professional writing skills necessary for future courses and the workplace.
Chapter 1: Finding Yourself in College and in Composition Class
Chapter 2: Analysis and Course Expectations: Yours and Mine
Suggested Materials
Chapter 3: Relationships and Language: The Power of Composing
Composition means, throughout a project, identifying several key elements
Focus, or what the thesis, anchor, or central idea of the work is
Audience, or who will read, hear, or see the work
Format, or mode, or what type of document you will create now that you have identified the focus, audience, and rhetorical nature of the project
Details, or all the important main ideas, descriptions, and necessary information about the topic
Autonomy, or the ability to control your project
Suggested Materials
Chapter 4: Writing Narratives: The Story of You
Suggested Materials
Chapter 5: Being Absent: Student Engagement and Writing Persuasively
Suggested Materials
Chapter 6: Developing Student-Teacher Relationships and Assessment
Suggested Materials
Chapter 7: Talking to Your Professor, Office Hours, and Informative Rhetoric
Suggested Materials
Chapter 8: Working in Groups: Class Discussions, Community Development, and Synthesis
Suggested Materials
Chapter 9: Doing the Work: Drafting, Editing, and Revising
Suggested Materials
Chapter 10: Covering the Bases: MLA Format & Research
Suggested Materials
Chapter 11: Letting It Go: Page Lengths, Word Counts, Number of Sources, and Thesis Statements
Suggested Materials
Chapter 12: Taking Risks: Our Spheres, Identity, and “Scary” Course Material
Suggested Materials
Chapter 13: On Coming Across: Establishing Tone and Voice
Suggested Materials
Chapter 14: Student Crisis, Mental Health, Suicide, and Disclosure
Suggested Materials
Chapter 15: Portfolios and Hearing from the Experts: Educators Weigh In
Introduction
Sam’s Reflection
On Teaching and Advising: Rewards and Challenges of Being a Professor or Advisor
On Student Success: What Educators Want You to Know about Writing and College
Final Words of Wisdom from Amazing Educators
Sam Bell lives in Lawrence, Kansas with her husband Dan and a cat named Gus, as you can see in their lovely family portrait. She is an Associate Professor of English at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. Sam holds two degrees from SUNY schools (B.A., Journalism, Geneseo and M.A., English, Brockport), and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kansas.