Teaching English in the Two-Year College
March 2010 Volume 37, Number 3
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 4
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What about the "Google Effect"? Improving the Library Research Habits of First-Year Composition Students
Patrick Corbett
This article presents a consideration of how students' existing information-seeking behaviors affect traditional methods of teaching library research in first-year writing courses and offers an... More
pp. 265-277
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"As Y'all Know": Blog as Bridge
Jamey Gallagher
Effective writing happens when the values of a genre and the desires of a writer match. Studying the blog entry as a genre has strengthened the author's assumptions about the possibility of using... More
pp. 286-294
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Using Google Documents for Composing Projects that Use Primary Research in First-Year Writing Courses
Kip Strasma
In this article, the author shares how efficient and effective Google Documents is for faculty seeking to engage students in inquiry-based, emergent, and primary research in first-year composition ... More
pp. 305-311
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What Works for Me
Mark Harris, Laurie Lykken & Jeanne Marie Rose
Today's learners are busy. They dash from work to school and back, talking and texting as they go. In their downtime, they are immersed in a digitized world of point-and-click technology that... More
pp. 312-315