TETYCS11

**Paul Magee** ** January 30, 2011 ** ** Teaching English in the Two-Year College ** **Background** **Teaching English in the Two-Year College** (TETYC) is designed for English instructors of two-year colleges as well as for those teaching the first two years of composition at four-year colleges and universities. TETYC publishes both theoretical and practical articles on composition, developmental studies, technical and business communications, literature, language, journalism, and other areas of English studies. The publication’s authors also report on problems facing English teachers and two-year colleges, such as staffing shortages and funding. The journal is published four times a year, in September, December, March and May. The journal can be reviewed at [|www.ncte.org/journals/tetyc]. TETYC is a product of the Two-Year College English Association (TYCA), which falls under the umbrella of the National Council of the Teachers of English. The cost of an annual membership to the Two-Year College English Association is $75 and includes a one-year subscription to TETYC. Membership is open to anyone who has an interest in two-year colleges. Additional information about TYCA can be obtained at [|www.ncte.org/tyca]. **Examination of the past three years (March 2008—December 2010) identified these areas consistently:**
 * Cle Cousins**
 * Writing across the curriculum
 * Peer review
 * Learning communities
 * Online learning and research
 * Assessing student writing
 * Race and class in composition and literature
 * First-year writing students

**Distinct topics by issue: **
 * March 2008; 35 (3)
 * Teaching technical writing
 * Classroom discourse
 * Timed writing tests
 * Challenges facing writing program administrators || May 2008; 35 (4)
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 11.35pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 11.35pt; text-indent: -11.35pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Student Tutor Education Program (STEP)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Technology and pedagogy
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Peer review terminology
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Support for teachers new to online teaching
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 11.35pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 11.35pt; text-indent: -11.35pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Developing a consciousness of social class using literature ||
 * September 2008; 36 (1)
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 11.35pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 11.35pt; text-indent: -11.35pt;">  <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assessing student ability in two-year writing programs
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Disability studies
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Literature and common student experiences
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· The college research paper
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Well-written prose
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 11.35pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 11.35pt; text-indent: -11.35pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Teaching writing students to pay attention || December 2008; 36 (2)
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 11.35pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 11.35pt; text-indent: -11.35pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Scoring rubrics
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Teaching and assessing writing
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Writing across the curriculum
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Two-year writing program
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Learning communities
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Writing centers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Critical language awareness
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Metagenres
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Barriers in public higher education ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">March 2009; 36 (3)
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 11.35pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 11.35pt; text-indent: -11.35pt;">  <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rhetoric and race
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Non-fiction in first-year composition
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· ESL students and composition
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Student grammar and sentence structure
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 11.35pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 11.35pt; text-indent: -11.35pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Understanding audience || May 2009; 36 (4)
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 11.35pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 11.35pt; text-indent: -11.35pt;">  <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 11.35pt; tabstops: list 11.35pt; text-indent: -11.35pt;">Teaching veterans to write about their <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">experiences
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Responding to war narratives
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Peer evaluation process
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Father/child literary themes
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 11.35pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 11.35pt; text-indent: -11.35pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Classroom dynamics ||
 * September 2009; 37 (1)
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 11.35pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 11.35pt; text-indent: -11.35pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Dual enrollment
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Impace of college courses on high school students
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Underprepared writers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Online learning
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Literacy and technology
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Writing across the curriculum
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Transfer of learning
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· African American vernacular among college students
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Slang
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Linguistics
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Ebonics
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 11.35pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 11.35pt; text-indent: -11.35pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Teaching students to develop strong arguments || December 2009; 37 (2)
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 11.35pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 11.35pt; text-indent: -11.35pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Teaching processes,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Gender and peer review
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Peer responses in first-year writing courses
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Teaching race and class in early American literature
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Writing faculty workload
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 11.35pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 11.35pt; text-indent: -11.35pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Teachers’ written responses to student essays ||
 * March 2010; 37 (3)
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 11.35pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 11.35pt; text-indent: -11.35pt;">  <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Multimodal writing assignments
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Visual communications
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Visual rhetoric
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Holocaust in writing courses
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Google effect
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Library research habits of first-year writing students
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Digital library tools
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 11.35pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 11.35pt; text-indent: -11.35pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Bridging the gap between high school and college writing teachers || May 2010; 37 (4)
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 11.35pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 11.35pt; text-indent: -11.35pt;">  <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Two-year college faculty
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Graduate program success
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Full-time faculty vs adjunct faculty
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Teaching internships
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Writing programs
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Working conditions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Undergraduate research
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Literature curriculum
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Literary studies
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Cultural studies
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Multicultural and literary canons
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Equality
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Pedagogy
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Academic writing
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Restricting literature in composition classes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Writing across the curriculum
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Student vocabulary
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 11.35pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 11.35pt; text-indent: -11.35pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Nonstandard language ||
 * September 2010; 38 (1)
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 11.35pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 11.35pt; text-indent: -11.35pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Writing assessments
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Portfolios
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Civic discourse
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Academic discourse
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Social justice
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Rhetoric
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· First-year writing
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Thesis intent
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Creating bibliographies
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Women in composition
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 11.35pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 11.35pt; text-indent: -11.35pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Social influence on composition performance. || December 2010; 38 (2)
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 11.35pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 11.35pt; text-indent: -11.35pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Learning communities
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Online learning
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Developmental writers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Library relevance
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Commercial websites and research
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Use of Google in research
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Diverse genres and voices
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Reflective writing
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Critical analysis
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 11.35pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 11.35pt; text-indent: -11.35pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Nontraditional texts ||