Research
This condemnable misdeed within writing is defined as "the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own".
What is plaigarism?
Congress Passed this Act in 2001, "ushering in a new era of federal K-12 regulations tied to standardized testing" (Guide 20)
What is the No Child Left Behind Act?
Literature has been posed to be the rival to this type of English instruction.
What is composition?
This program within composition studies concerns itself with the role of writing instruction in the English classroom and beyond.
What is Writing Across the Curriculum / WAC?
A proponent of spatial approaches to Basic Writing, this famous educator wrote "Inventing the University", and is currently a professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
Who is David Bartholomae?
Sometimes mistaken for paraphrase, this form of rephrasing is too similar to the original source, and can be considered cheating. (Guide 233)
What is Patchwriting?
Beyond "languaging", this process is important to Basic Writing Instruction and is defined as "the process whereby multilingual speakers use their languages as an integrated communication system"
What is Translanguaging? (Guide 30)
CANAGARAJAH, S. (2011), Codemeshing in Academic Writing: Identifying Teachable Strategies of Translanguaging. The Modern Language Journal, 95: 401-417. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4781.2011.01207.x
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translanguaging#cite_note-:8-1
Related to literature instruction, this theory revolves around grouping and categorizing texts based on their situations and contexts.
What is genre theory?
These papers became part of First Year Writing courses as early as the 1860s in the US. (Guide 232)
What are research papers?
Born in 384BC, this Greek philosopher is credited with the invention of the tools of persuasion included Logos, Ethos, and Pathos
Who is Aristotle?
Usually focusing less on writing, this form of research involves students compiling various media into a single research project. Examples include powerpoints, podcasts, storyboards...
What is multimedia Research? (Guide 242)
Examples of these are error-centered, academic initiation, critical, spatial. (Guide 21)
What are Approaches to Basic Writing?
Proposed as a way to bridge the lit/comp gap, and sometimes mistaken for plagiarism and remix, Oxford Dictionary defines this as "the relationship between texts, especially literary ones".
What is intertextuality? (Guide 168)
This pedagogical movement of the 1960s and 70s took the role of "displacing literary texts as models and source of writing ideas." (Guide 165)
What is process pedagogy?
Rudolph Flesch authored this seminal book in the 1950s - railing against the US education system's failure to teach literacy skills.
What is Why Johnny Can't Read (1955)?
This process - Helen Foster's "argument for scaled-back research assignments, where instructors focus on research skills by a process of scaffolding in which experts and movies collaborate through a process of information retrieval and multiple embedded tasks" provides insight toward the goals of research assignments. (Guide 236)
What is the Information Retrieval Scaffold?
Educator Ira Shor fought against oppressive remedial teaching practices and recommended termination of Basic Writing courses coining the term "_____ Apartheid" (Guide 27)
What is Academic Apartheid?
Process pedagogy and changes in composition course curriculum standards replaced classics with this type of literary text. (Guide 165)
What is imaginative literature?
This pedagogy emerged from "miltant student demands for equal access to higher education." (Guide 20)
What is Basic Writing Pedagogy?
This Professor of English at UNC Chapel Hill is famous for her rejection of literature in composition courses, and for her debate with Gary Tate at the 1992 Conference on College Composition and Communication
Who is Erika Lindemann?
Kesselman & Watstein coined this term for librarians who collaborate with classrooms in order to teach information literacy. (Guide 238)
What is Embedded Librarian?
This design concept prioritizes an environment's accessibility to the most number of people.
What is Universal Design?
Educators like Bartholomae and Petrosky argue students must "locate themselves within _____, not just literary, discourse." (Guide 167)
What is academic discourse?
Narration, Description, Exposition, and Persuasion - These modes of staple of the current-traditional paradigm.
What are the Four Modes of Discourse / Rhetorical Modes?
This professor from TCU wrote "A place for Literature in Composition", and co-authored a guidebook to composition pedagogies.
Who is Gary Tate?