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- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Solano_Community_College/Bad_Ideas_About_Writing/05%3A_Bad_Ideas_About_Genres/5.04%3A_Popular_Culture_is_Only_Useful_as_a_Text_for_CriticismPleasure (and distaste) is a complicated orientation that, from an affective perspective, is created by any number of extratextual features: early memories of the text (or its genre), opinions about t...Pleasure (and distaste) is a complicated orientation that, from an affective perspective, is created by any number of extratextual features: early memories of the text (or its genre), opinions about the texts’ fans, how the text is publically disseminated, public images/narratives of the artist, and ways the text encourages social investment.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Composition/Specialized_Composition/Bad_Ideas_About_Writing_(Ball_and_Loewe)/08%3A_Bad_Ideas_About_Writing_Teachers/8.06%3A_Anyone_Can_Teach_WritingLaura McKenna’s “The Cost of an Adjunct,” Colleen Flaherty’s “The Case for Better Faculty Pay,” and the joint report by the Modern Language Association and Association of Departments of English, “Educ...Laura McKenna’s “The Cost of an Adjunct,” Colleen Flaherty’s “The Case for Better Faculty Pay,” and the joint report by the Modern Language Association and Association of Departments of English, “Education in the Balance: A Report on the Academic Workforce in English,” illuminates the false economy behind under-paying and under-supporting writing teachers.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Composition/Specialized_Composition/Bad_Ideas_About_Writing_(Ball_and_Loewe)/08%3A_Bad_Ideas_About_Writing_Teachers/8.04%3A_Face-to-Face_Courses_are_Superior_to_Online_CoursesInstead of using f2f classes as the barometer to measure online writing instruction, the time has come for instructors, administrators, students, and others interested in the quality of education offe...Instead of using f2f classes as the barometer to measure online writing instruction, the time has come for instructors, administrators, students, and others interested in the quality of education offered in our universities to start recognizing that both f2f and online writing classes can provide challenging, intellectually stimulating educational experiences for students.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Composition/Specialized_Composition/Bad_Ideas_About_Writing_(Ball_and_Loewe)/05%3A_Bad_Ideas_About_Genres/5.01%3A_Excellent_Academic_Writing_Must_be_SeriousSometimes, though, they pass laws and create policies that say nothing overt about comedy in the writing classroom—still, the instructions about how to do well on high-stakes, state-sanctioned writing...Sometimes, though, they pass laws and create policies that say nothing overt about comedy in the writing classroom—still, the instructions about how to do well on high-stakes, state-sanctioned writing examinations call for writing that carefully lays its foundations, creates its structure, and establishes its points serious brick by seriouser brick. (And then, in the conclusion, one dutifully retells the story of the turgid grid one’s made.) And should they happen to acknowledge the existence o…
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Solano_Community_College/Bad_Ideas_About_Writing/07%3A_Bad_Ideas_About_Writing_and_Digital_Technology/7.05%3A_Digital_Natives_and_Digital_ImmigrantsA quick search reveals over 1,000 articles with the phrase “digital native” in the titles, many claiming they will help the non-native to understand how the digital native thinks and works, treating t...A quick search reveals over 1,000 articles with the phrase “digital native” in the titles, many claiming they will help the non-native to understand how the digital native thinks and works, treating those labeled as native as if they are alien to the norm, or more frightening still, that the digital native has become the norm and those who are not natives are now an outmoded minority.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Solano_Community_College/Bad_Ideas_About_Writing/06%3A_Bad_Ideas_About_Assessing_Writing/6.05%3A_Student_Writing_Must_be_Graded_by_the_TeacherBut when students have only one teacher in their classroom, and that one teacher’s assessment carries all the weight and authority, students learn to write for the teacher instead of expecting the wri...But when students have only one teacher in their classroom, and that one teacher’s assessment carries all the weight and authority, students learn to write for the teacher instead of expecting the writing to do anything on its own. (See also Elizabeth Wardle’s chapter in this book on “writing in general.”) Grading becomes a mysterious label, reducing meaningful commentary to a single letter or number.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Solano_Community_College/Bad_Ideas_About_Writing/08%3A_Bad_Ideas_About_Writing_Teachers/8.02%3A_Dual-Enrollment_Writing_Classes_Should_Always_be_PursuedThelin’s “(Re)Envisioning the Divide: The Impact of College Courses on High School Students” in Teaching English in the Two Year College and Howard Tinberg and Jean Paul Nadeau’s “Contesting the Space...Thelin’s “(Re)Envisioning the Divide: The Impact of College Courses on High School Students” in Teaching English in the Two Year College and Howard Tinberg and Jean Paul Nadeau’s “Contesting the Space between High School and College in the Era of Dual-Enrollment” in College Composition and Communication.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Composition/Specialized_Composition/Bad_Ideas_About_Writing_(Ball_and_Loewe)/01%3A_Bad_Ideas_About_What_Good_Writing_is_.../1.02%3A_America_is_Facing_a_Literacy_CrisisSo the courses that have often helped students prepare for the rigor of academic writing and the sophistication of writing informed by knowledge of rhetorical principles are actually being cut even as...So the courses that have often helped students prepare for the rigor of academic writing and the sophistication of writing informed by knowledge of rhetorical principles are actually being cut even as the public continues to declare that literacy is in decline.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Composition/Specialized_Composition/Bad_Ideas_About_Writing_(Ball_and_Loewe)/07%3A_Bad_Ideas_About_Writing_and_Digital_Technology
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Composition/Specialized_Composition/Bad_Ideas_About_Writing_(Ball_and_Loewe)/02%3A_Bad_Ideas_About_Who_Good_Writers_are_...
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Solano_Community_College/Bad_Ideas_About_Writing/08%3A_Bad_Ideas_About_Writing_Teachers
