September 2018
Theme: Papers, Papers, Papers
Artist of this issue: Nano Rubi
Contents
From Product to Process, Critic To Coach: Simple Shifts for Improving Feedback and Reclaiming Your Weekends
Barbara McBride Steinberg
The Goldilocks Method: The ‘Just Right’ Method of Tackling Those Stacks of Ungraded Papers
Callie Kitchen
What Did You Get? Counteracting the Student Response to Our Efforts on Grading
Trent Anthony Hall
A Threshold Concept In Grading: How I Learned to Create Meaningful Opportunities for Collaborative Peer Editing
Heather Macias
The Stacks
Sabrina Villagran
Innovation, Economics and Composition: How English Teachers Can Help Students Be Creative and Hirable
Robert De France
Parts Asunder
Erika Cobain
Ordinary People
Lisa Friedman
Annotation-Driven Conferences: A Pragmatic Approach to Papers, Papers, Papers
Marissa King and Karen Sheriff Levan
Doing Our Share
Kathryn Gullo and Catherine Underwood
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Features and Columns
President’s Perspective
Editor’s Column
Call for Manuscripts
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Next Issue: November 2018
Theme: GRAPHIC NOVELS AND NONFICTION: A FAD OR NEW GENRE?
The publishing market for young adults increasingly features novels written in verse. Even Laurie Halse Anderson’s iconic novel Speak has been reimagined (in collaboration with Anderson) by Emily Carroll in graphic form. What are the pros and cons of this trend. How are your students responding to these books, including graphic biographies like March by John Lewis and memoirs like Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis? Should we be teaching more of them?
Due Date: October 1, 2018