Higher education occupies a difficult place in twenty-first-century American culture.
Universities—the institutions that bear so much responsibility for the future health of our …

Focused on scholarship in rhetoric and composition over the past quarter-century, Concepts
in Composition: Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing is designed to foster …

WHEN I started teaching at the University of Cincinnati in 1987, the library's composition and
rhetoric holdings took up only a couple of shelves and included mainly classroom textbooks …

This pioneering study of African American students in the composition classroom lays the
groundwork for reversing the cycle of underachievement that plagues linguistically diverse …

The teacher-student conference is standard in the repertoire of teachers at all levels.
Because it's a one-to-one encounter, teachers work hard to make it comfortable; but …

The issue of dialect and education and, in particular, the issue of which code to use as the
medium of instruction has generated much heated debate in bidialectal societies. This …

This article offers six recommendations that instructors can employ to encourage effective
classroom code-switching practices among Black English-speaking students in the basic …

In this book, Teresa M. Redd and Karen Schuster Webb explain not only what African
American English (AAE) is, but also what role it may play in students' mastery of Standard …

Investigates problems faced by minority students. Examines case studies of African-
American men who had finished bachelor's degrees in education or English at a …

This book draws on applied linguistics and literary studies to offer concrete means of
engaging with vernacular language and literature in secondary and college classrooms. The …