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Teaching English in the Two-Year College

March 2010 Volume 37, Number 3

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Number of articles: 4

  1. 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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  2. "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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  3. 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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  4. 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

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