bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Node Intrusion Tendency Recognition Using Network Level Features Based Deep Learning Approach
Authors: Janan Farag Yonan  , Nagham Amjed Abdul Zahra
Published: March 2024

Adhoc network is highly susceptible for intrusion attacks due to the simplified accesscontrol and compacted network stack. Malicious node recognition in Mobile adhocnetwork (MANET) is challengeable due to nodes mobility and limited coverageof nodes. Thus, link may keep fluctuating throughout the communication period.In this paper, deep analytic model is made for extracting attacker node behaviorsfrom networking point of view. Attributed such as link durations, re-healing timeand number of received packets (by attacker) was the main features of this work.Later, deep learning paradigm is integrated to perform attacker node recognition. Dataobtained from network analytical model is used to train three different models namelyFeed forward neural network (FFNN), Cascade backpropagation neural network(CBPNN) and Convolutional neural network (CNN). Attacker node recognitionaccuracy of 85.5
Assessing the Arabic Parsing Capabilities of ChatGPT and Cloude: An Expert-Based Comparative Study
Authors: Aljanabi Mohammad
Published: March 2024

Arabic, known for its rich morphological and syntactic complexity, poses significant challenges for natural language processing technologies. This study presents a comparative evaluation of two artificial intelligence tools, ChatGPT and Cloude, in their abilities to parse Arabic sentences accurately. Five sentences embodying diverse linguistic features were selected, and the parsing outputs were evaluated by three Arabic language experts. The results revealed a clear performance gap, with Cloude outperforming ChatGPT in overall accuracy (72.9% vs. 33.3%). Cloude excelled in handling morphological complexities and basic syntactic relationships but encountered difficulties with highly idiomatic expressions and ambiguous constructions. Conversely, ChatGPT struggled with complex morphology and long-distance dependencies. The findings highlight the importance of developing specialized Arabic language processing tools while acknowledging the potential of general-purpose language models with further fine-tuning. Recommendations include incorporating domain-specific knowledge, leveraging transfer learning, and exploring ensemble approaches to enhance the accuracy and robustness of AI-based Arabic parsing systems.
Exploring the Evolving Significance of Social Entrepreneurship in Modern Leadership, Learning, and Human Resource Management
Authors: Singh Kothari Dr. Surendra Pratap , Jain Dr. Anupam , Jain Dr. Shravasti
Published: March 2024

The goal of this study is to trace the origins and evolution of the term "social entrepreneurship" and to identify its present-day applications. The study begins by looking at the political and social factors that have caused businesses to take on the role that governments have long held: meeting the financial demands of civil society. It continues by looking at several social entrepreneurship models and the prominent people who have risen to the position of social entrepreneur under each of these models. The article challenges the goals of social entrepreneurs and cautions against blindly embracing the erasing of distinctions between different parts of society in its discussion section. This is a theoretical article. Research that follows will take a closer look at social entrepreneurship case cases. Despite its prominence, social entrepreneurship is a relatively unexplored area of study. This research compiles and analyzes the varied and sparsely written works on social entrepreneurship that are currently available. Additionally, it provides a critical viewpoint that must be considered before the practice is embraced as a practical solution to societal problems.
Pelatihan Ecopprint Dan Penguatan Literasi Sebagai Implementasi Program Projek Penguatan Profil Pelajar Pancasila (P5)
Authors: Irdalisa  , Gufron Amirullah  , Erlia Hanum  , Maesaroh
Published: March 2024

The Pancasila Student Strengthening Project (P5) is increasingly being implemented in schools, because with P5 students are introduced to the surrounding environment. This community service activity aims to introduce ecoprint and strengthen literacy for elementary school teachers in the context of implementing the project program to strengthen the profile of Pancasila students (P5) in learning. Through this community service activity, teachers can overcome problems in linking learning activities with the P5 program. The community service methods used are interviews, training and mentoring carried out face-to-face through lecture and practice methods. Participants in this activity were teachers at SDN Tanjung Barat 03 Jakarta. The implementation stages include planning, implementation, evaluation and mentoring stages. Data collection techniques are carried out through observation, documentation and interviews. The results obtained show that teachers are able to develop ideas in implementing the project program to strengthen the Pancasila student profile (P5) and strengthen teacher professionalism related to innovative methods as a reference for implementing the P5 independent curriculum.
إمارة الحج في زمن الإيلخانات المغول المسلمين (694-736هـ/1294-1335م)
Authors: م.د. سرمد قاسم محمد خميس
Published: March 2024

سعت الدراسة إلى متابعة أوضاع الحجاج المسلمين من الرعايا القاطنين في الأقاليم الشرقية للعالم الإسلامي الواقعة تحت حكم الأسرة الإيلخانية المغولية للفترة الزمنية الممتدة بين سنة (694ه/1294م) إلى سنة (736هـ/1335م)، وما آلت إليه أوضاع الحجاج المسلمين المشرقيين بعد ارتقاء عرش الممالك الإيلخانية سلاطين مغول مسلمين رفضوا تبعيتهم للقآان الأعظم في العاصمة المغولية قراقورم، وأقفوا العمل بالقوانين الجنكيزية (اليساق). ومتابعة الدور الكبير الذي لعبه هؤلاء الايلخانات في إقامة علاقات ودية من خلال عقد معاهدات صلح مع سلاطين الدولة المملوكية الراعين المباشرين للحرمين الشريفين. بعد ذلك تناولت الدراسة أوضاع الحجاج المسلمين ذهابًا إلى الديار المقدسة، وإيابًا منها، وإقامةً فيها من أجل أداء مراسم الحج. وهي مقسمة بحسب الحقبة الزمنية لحكم كل سلطان مغولي مسلم مع التطرق إلى مدى عناية كل سلطان منهم بهذا الشأن، وما قدمه من أجل تسيير وتيسير سبل الحج إلى الديار المقدسة في بلاد الحرمين الشريفين، وإقامة طقوس شعائره في مكة المكرمة والمسجد النبوي الشريف.
BÂCÛRÎ’NİN KASİDE-İ BÜRDE (BÂNET SU‘ÂD) HÂŞİYESİ VE YEKGÛŞ’UN BU HÂŞİYEYE DAİR HULÂSASI
Authors: Akdemir Hikmet , Kiraz Seydi
Published: March 2024

Ka‘b b. Züheyr tarafından yazılan Kaside-i Bürde (Bânet Su‘âd), İslâm milletlerinin edebiyatını derinden etkileyen kurucu manzumelerinden biridir. Farklı dönemlerde hakkında şerh, hulâsa/muhtasar, hâşiye, nazire ve tahmisler yazılan bu kasidenin Osmanlı sahasında da büyük bir önemi vardır. İlmiye ve üdeba sınıfına mensup olanlardan tutun din ve devlet adamlarına varıncaya kadar farklı konumlardaki birçok şahıs, Kaside-i Bürde ile ilgili eserler kaleme almıştır. Hakkında çoğunlukla şerhlerin yazıldığı Kaside-i Bürde için hulâsa/muhtasar ve hâşiye türünden müstakil eserler de yazılmıştır.

Hulâsa/muhtasar ve hâşiye mahiyetinde telif edilen eserlerden biri de Hâşiye-i Hulâsa-i Bâcûrî adıyla kaydedilen eserdir. Bu eserdeki hâşiye, Bâcûrî’ye/Beycûrî’ye (1277/1860) aittir. Ezher şeyhlerinden olan Bâcûrî, farklı ilimler hakkında yazdığı şerhleriyle meşhur olmuş bir fıkıh ve kelâm âlimidir. Müellifin ilmî derinliği daha çok şerhlerinde tezahür etmiştir. Bâcûrî, şerh özelliği taşıyan birçok eser kaleme almıştır.

Eserdeki hulâsa ise Abdulkadir Bilgiç’e (1880-1957) aittir. Yekgûş mahlasıyla şiirler yazan Abdulkadir Bilgiç’in bir Dîvân’ına ve tertip ettiği bir Mecmûa’sına ulaşılmıştır. Mecmûa’da tespit edilen hulâsa ve hâşiye, toplam 30 sayfa olup iki bölüm olarak tertip edilmiştir. İlk 27 sayfada Kaside-i Bürde’nin 58 beytinin tahlili yapılmış, 28-30. sayfalarda ise Ka‘b b. Züheyr’in kıssası anlatılmıştır. Bu çalışmada hulâsa ve hâşiyenin metni günyüzüne çıkarılmış, Arapça yazılan kısımlar tercüme edilmiş, Osmanlı Türkçesiyle kaleme alınan bölümler transkripsiyon yoluyla verilmiş, müellifler hakkında bilgiler verilmiş ve eser hakkında bir inceleme yapılmıştır.
Writing as Travel, or Rhetoric on the Road
Authors: Clark Gregory
Published: March 2024

In this essay, I want to propose a shift away from … metaphors of territory and towards reconceiving rhetoric as something more like travel. What would change if we were to make such a shift? One thing that would change is our general understanding of the social context in which written texts have communicative function-what Thomas B. Farrell calls “rhetorical culture.”
Simple Gifts: Ethical Issues in the Conduct of Person-Based Composition Research
Authors: Anderson Paul V.
Published: March 2024

Since the 1970s, much major work in composition has been driven by moral purpose… Yet, curiously, our moral gaze has almost completely overlooked one crucial area of our personal and disciplinary responsibility, namely our ethical obligations to the persons whose words and actions we transform into the “data” of our research.
The Two-Year College as Democracy in Action
Authors: Pickett Nell Ann
Published: March 2024

I salute the 1300 two-year colleges-colleges that bring hope, opportunity, fulfillment of dreams to a large segment of our population for whom otherwise higher education would be very difficult, if not impossible. Community colleges are open door, they are accessible, they are affordable, they are cost efficient, they offer a broad array of programs and services, and they open the way for transferring to four-year institutions or entering/reentering the workforce. Familiar words from the Declaration of Independence remind us of the basis of our democracy: "We hold these truths to be self-evident…"-you know the rest of the sentence. The abstractions "created equal," "certain unalienable rights," "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" become realities for many because of their community college experiences. Community colleges are indeed democracy in action. (Pickett 98).
Review Essays: Sweetening Rhetorical Projects
Authors: Miller Susan
Published: March 2024

Susan Wells’ Sweet Reason: Rhetoric and the Discourses of Modernity is an often brilliant but at times frustrating book. It undertakes a project that has been suspended by those who want to re-validate rhetoric (and rhetoricians) within hermeneutics, especially by following the laborious normalizing work involved in Richard Rorty’s anti-foundational relocation of “truth” in the play of interpretative methods. Wells would herself suspend the competitive and entirely disciplinary contest between Aristotelian classical rhetoric (on her account, modernized by Brian Vickers and Jasper Neel, for instance) and hermeneutic rhetoricians who prefer reading the Phaedrus.
Literacy, Identity, Imagination, Flight
Authors: Gilyard Keith
Published: March 2024

This article examines issues of literacy and identity relative to the development of a critical pedagogy and a critical democracy. An earlier version was delivered as the Chair’s Address at the Fifty-first Annual CCCC Convention on April 13, 2000.
A Real Vexation: Student Writing in Mount Holyoke’s Culture of Service, 1837-1865
Authors: Campbell JoAnn
Published: March 2024

Examines hundreds of compositions from 19th-century students at Mount Holyoke and other institutions. Finds that the first generation of women to attend United States colleges negotiated competing demands of service (to family and community) and of individual intellectual performance. Contrasts women’s compositions to men’s. Illustrates effects of gender on service, both as a concept and as an activity.
Rhetoric as a Course of Study
Authors: Fleming David
Published: March 2024

Examines the simultaneous rise of rhetorical theory and continued decline of rhetorical education. Presents and discusses three definitions of “rhetoric.” Argues for the historical prominence and continued relevance of the third definition: rhetoric as the study of speaking and writing well.
Reading Rape Stories: Material Rhetoric and the Trauma of Representation
Authors: Hesford Wendy S.
Published: March 2024

Raises questions about the representability of the trauma of rape and the purposes of its representation. Focuses on how the strategic enactment of a culturally dominant rape script can potentially open up a gap within which that script can be contested and the act of rape or death resisted. Discusses pedagogical challenges of teaching the literature of trauma and survival.
From Formalism to Inquiry: A Model of Argument in Antigone
Authors: Kastely James L.
Published: March 2024

Presents a definition for a formalist approach to teaching argument and discusses limitations and serious problems with this approach. Discusses “Antigone” as a representative text for teaching argument because it challenges the very possibility of argument. Proposes that literary texts such as “Antigone” be taught as theoretical works in argument.
Linearity and Its Discontents: Rethinking Narrative Form and Ideological Valence
Authors: Richardson Brian
Published: March 2024

Examines how a number of modern innovative authors use chronological progression, causal connection, and narrative voice in their novels. Analyzes texts by Alain Robbe-Grillet and Jeanette Winterson, noting the areas of connection and disjunction between the theoretical claims and actual practice of experimental authors.
Limping or Flying? Psychoanalysis, Afrocentrism, and Song of Solomon
Authors: Tidey Ashley
Published: March 2024

Explores the possibility of seeing in Toni Morrison’s novel, “Song of Solomon,” the co-existence of two narratives of subjectivity. Examines the extent to which the application of a Western and non-Western narrative of subject formation yields conflicting interpretations of the novel and, in particular, the novel’s ending.
Capturing a Moving Form
Authors: Vinz Ruth
Published: March 2024

Details one teacher educator’s struggle to articulate a theory that informs her practice. Advocates learning about “un-knowing” and “not-knowing.” Cites the role of guidelines in regenerating or revisioning teacher education programs. Full article available in print version only.
Telling Tales (In and Out) of School: Ethnographies of Schooling and the Preparation of English Teachers
Authors: Taylor Marcy
Published: March 2024

States that in a methods course for elementary education majors, students are asked to keep a notebook to respond to course readings, collect writing starts, reflect on their schooling histories, and collect data from their 10-week field experience in an elementary classroom. Discusses one notebook; presents a sample ethnographic research assignment.
Grammar for Social Awareness in Time of Class Warfare
Authors: Sledd James
Published: March 2024

James Sledd’s “Grammar for Social Awareness in Time of Class Warfare,” poses and answers some questions about grammar and how and why to teach it in today’s world and to today’s students.
From the Secondary Section: The Teacher in Room 222
Authors: Steiner Joan N.
Published: March 2024

Members of the Secondary Section Steering Committee comment on topics of importance to English language arts educators.
Zen and the Art of Grade Motivation
Authors: Mandrell Liz
Published: March 2024

Presents an English teacher’s irreverent look at grades and grading. Argues that learning must somehow be linked to a product, which must be measured or graded to gauge the worth of the product according to the merit it deserves.
Exhibitions of Mastery: The Tail that Wags the Dog
Authors: Bingen Mark
Published: March 2024

Details how exhibitions of mastery can be implemented in English classrooms. Discusses what exhibitions of mastery are, implementation of exhibitions, creation of new knowledge, and assessment.
Grappling with Grendel or What We Did When the Censors Came
Authors: Zeeman Kenneth L.
Published: March 2024

Reviews the events and issues surrounding a parent-driven attempt to ban John Gardener’s “Grendel” from the high school curriculum on the grounds that it would corrupt the young morally.
New Teachers: Designing Lesson Plans: What New Teachers Can Learn from Moffett and Wagner
Authors: Weiner Lois
Published: March 2024

Explains a method for assisting preservice and new teachers in their understanding of James Moffett and Betty Jane Wagner’s classic work, “Student Centered Language Arts, K-12” (1992).
World War II: A Research/Presentation Project for Eighth Graders
Authors: Ruddiman Joan
Published: March 2024

Describes an eighth-grade unit on World War II, in which students work in groups to create a research/presentation project. Discusses making the subject manageable, group responsibilities, evaluation of group presentations, steps leading to the lesson, results, and going beyond the subject. Offers an 87-item list of books and a 39-item list of films on World War II.
Walking, Tinkertoys, and Legos: Using Movement and Manipulatives to Help Students Write
Authors: Hecker Linda
Published: March 2024

Describes how students who are learning disabled can improve their writing skills through physical movement and manipulating visuals. Describes how movement draws on kinesthetic intelligence and manipulatives draw on spatial intelligence to help students understand language structures in nonverbal ways that may be more intuitive than verbal explanations. Shows that manipulatives can also help students organize their ideas.
Notes from the Wise: Bringing Professional Study Notes into the Classroom
Authors: Skelton Diane Jones
Published: March 2024

Describes a two-week unit in a high school English class which teaches high school students how, why, and when to use professional study notes, such as “Cliffs Notes.” Prepares students with the skills to research and write their own notes.
Disconnected
Authors: Osei Monica A.
Published: March 2024

Relates the story of how the author connected for the first time, in the 11th grade, with writing, awakening in her something she did not know she had.
Writing Portfolios: Active vs. Passive
Authors: Wilcox Bonita L.
Published: March 2024

Defines passive and active writing portfolios, suggesting artifacts to include in an active portfolio and ways to move outcomes from passive to active.
Integration through Video: Seeing Beyond the Literary Work into History and Science
Authors: Egenberger Pat
Published: March 2024

Details an interdisciplinary video project used by an eighth-grade English teacher to tie the flora, fauna, forces of nature, and historical events in the book “Prairie Songs” to what students are learning about in social studies and in science. Describes goals and resources for the project, student questions, researching topics, writing a script, videotaping, and student reaction.
Bedside Table: The Beatles Begin
Authors: Metras Gary
Published: March 2024

Available in print version only.
Barbara Kingsolver’s “The Bean Trees”: A New Classroom Classic
Authors: Kelly Karen M. , Kelly Phillip H.
Published: March 2024

Argues that Barbara Kingsolver is one of the fresh new American voices whose work could find a comfortable niche in the curriculum canon for high school literature classes. Describes her novel, “The Bean Trees,” determining that it is an extremely “teachable” work. Outlines opportunities the book offers in terms of themes, various literary techniques, and other connections.
RainbowTeachers/Rainbow Students: Who’s New in Multicultural Literature, Part Two
Authors: Hardy Lyda Mary
Published: March 2024

Describes the Multicultural Project at a high school in Colorado that uses literature by people of color in the 11th-grade curriculum. Presents brief descriptions of four Latino/a and five Native American writers and their works. Discusses the many ways the Multicultural Project has added to that school’s American literature curriculum.
An Invitation to Success: Co–Teaching and Learning in English 9G
Authors: McCracken Nancy Mellin , Sekicky Natalie
Published: March 2024

Describes the collaboration between a third-year high school teacher and a seasoned education professor, in which the two traded places, coteaching each other’s classes for the entire school year. Discusses getting started, what they expected and what they learned, long-term individual effects of collaboration, ensuring success, and collaboration for “survival.”
How to Break through Techno-shock and Build Multi-media Units
Authors: Sutz Rachel , Warren Maria W. , Williams Holly
Published: March 2024

Describes how three teachers learned about using Hyperstudio (presentation software), constructed a Web page, and created an original film as part of a unit on Florida writers. Recommends three major strategies for learning a new technology: choose the literary works, then the technology; build on your strengths; and learn to talk to the “techies.”
The Simpsons Meet Mark Twain: Analyzing Popular Media Texts in the Classroom
Authors: Hobbs Renee
Published: March 2024

Describes a classroom activity where students compare an episode of “The Simpsons” to speeches and essays of Mark Twain. Suggests it invites students to consider the categorization of texts into “high” and “low” culture, and helps students build media literacy skills by applying tools of textual analysis first to a popular program and then to a literary classic.
Building Bridges: Connecting High School and Elementary School through Short Story Writing
Authors: Hickey Thomas J. , DeCoste Aimee E.
Published: March 2024

Describes how a “tech prep” junior English class at a vocational-technical high school collaborated with a class of third graders, as the juniors wrote short stories based on topics generated by the third graders who then illustrated the stories. Discusses how both classes prepared and got started, and how all participants benefited. Offers tips for teachers.
Teaching On-line Communication Skills: An Activity Using AspectsTM
Authors: Stock Richard
Published: March 2024

Describes two class activities which used a computer software program to allow junior and senior high students to discuss and create on computers, electronically, in real time. Describes an online discussion in a large group, as well as a pairing activity in which two students worked together online to create an original poem.
What’s Hate Got to Do with It? Using Film to Address Hate Crimes
Authors: Shaw Mikki
Published: March 2024

Advocates confronting controversial subjects in classrooms. Describes bringing hatred into the curriculum of a film study class. Articulates purposes and obstacles. Addresses how to handle tough topics and ways to introduce civil rights issues. Describes the final student project. States that students make a transition from consciousness to empowerment to the solving of real problems in the real world.
From Comfort Zone to Contact Zone
Authors: Gaughan John
Published: March 2024

Who are your students and how do they engage in your class? How do you engage with them? In “From Comfort Zone to Contact Zone,” John Gaughan gives us brief glimpses of three of his students in his classroom, of his teaching philosophy and how it’s evolved, of his worries, of his search for answers.
Rainbow Teachers/Rainbow Students: Billy’s Story: Grammar in Context
Authors: Haddox Gretchen
Published: March 2024

Shows how teaching grammar through writing can be a successful strategy. Points out the steps one teacher used in teaching a writing and grammar process with her sixth graders and illustrates its effectiveness, both with one high–risk student and also through a school disruption caused by fire.
Classic Connections: Aiding Literary Comprehension through Varied Liberal Arts Alliance
Authors: Jurgella Janet
Published: March 2024

Offers four avenues to teaching classic literature. Describes how the author helps students connect with classic literature through assignments that look for connections between literature and: (1) art and music; (2) dramatic interpretation; (3) video/technology; and (4) other literary works.
A Blind Man’s Ditch: Suppression of the Imagination in the Quest for Test Scores
Authors: Loeb Jeff
Published: March 2024

Describes how, giving an exam that included working with uncontextualized poetry, a teacher inadvertently discovered that the least accomplished students were the biggest risk-takers; the so-called best students were ironically self-limited by their own drive to succeed; tracking only encouraged this lack of risk-taking; and the less good students had something to offer to critical discussion in the classroom.
Reflection
Authors: Kurzman Karen
Published: March 2024

Describes how an English teacher slowed down her class and took out certain activities, in order to put in reflection. Relates how she now requires (and teaches) students to reflect on what the things they read actually mean to them, their beliefs and their lives. Shows students relating to the classics in vivid ways.
Romeo and Juliet: The Movie
Authors: Lorenz Sarah L.
Published: March 2024

Argues that the 1996 film of “Romeo and Juliet” (starring Leonardo Di Caprio and Claire Danes, and transposed to inner-city gang culture) is a gripping presentation of Shakespeare’s story of star-crossed lovers in an impulsive, hot-headed, violent world. Suggests that the film is practically guaranteed to make students love Shakespeare.
Young Adult Literature: The Power of Books and Literacy
Authors: Kaywell Joan F. , Joseph Rebecca J.
Published: March 2024

Discusses the power of books and literacy, the power of giving students their own books to take home, and young adult novels in which the importance of books is a major theme. Offers brief descriptions of 27 books (mostly novels) whose stories focus on the power of books and literacy.
Essay: Honorable Mention: The Marks He Made
Authors: Fisher Paula
Published: March 2024

Available in print version only.
Photography: Honorable Mention: La Vie Cajun
Authors: Bader-LeNormand Kathleen
Published: March 2024

Available in print version only.
Young Adult Literature: What Is Young Adult Literature?
Authors: Crowe Chris
Published: March 2024

Outlines some of the many confusions about young adult literature. Sheds some light on what young adult literature is (defining it as all genres of literature published since 1967 that are written for and marketed to young adults). Discusses briefly how it can be used in schools. Offers a list of the author’s 20 favorite books for teenagers.
Losing the Product in the Process
Authors: Baines Lawrence , Baines Coleen , Stanley Gregory Kent , Kunkle Anthony
Published: March 2024

Describes three basic variations on the process approach to teaching writing witnessed while observing over 300 secondary English teachers: the “classic” process approach, the “antigrammarian” approach, and the “five paragraph” approach. Argues that the idea of error must be allowed back into the classroom, and that lockstep allegiance to a set of sequential steps must be loosened.
From the Secondary Section: Student Rights Should Dictate Class Size
Authors: Luckert Richard
Published: March 2024

Describes the work of the National Council of Teachers of English Task Force on Class Size. Addresses the issue of class size by outlining the needs and rights of students (at all grade levels and in each classroom) that can only be granted when appropriate class size and teacher workload are granted.
Reinventing Portia: A Reading and Writing Pedagogy for Adolesent Women
Authors: Greco Norma
Published: March 2024

Discusses writing assignments in response to literature that encourage adolescent female students to construct knowledge by allowing the self back into the process of knowing and in so doing to discover their own voices and a position of authority. Argues that through such authentic engagement with texts, young women can become more active, self-reflexive, and confident readers and writers.
Poets of Comrades: Addressing Sexual Orientation in the English Classroom
Authors: Allan Christina
Published: March 2024

Discusses issues related to young gay and lesbian students in high school English classes. Offers two examples of addressing gay issues in class, and discusses reading and writing around gay issues. Lists several strategies English teachers can use to reduce stereotyping and create an open environment for self-exploration and expression around sexuality.
International English
Authors: Gerlach Jeanne Marcum
Published: March 2024

Presents an essay written soon after the author’s return to the United States after teaching at a University in China at the time of the Tiananmen Square tragedy. Explores issues of teaching overseas and the reality of Americans being caught in the midst of political turmoil. Remembers sacrifices made by Chinese students and teachers to test the limits of democracy.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner: Reclaiming Personal Meaning in Literacy Teaching
Authors: Thompson Nancy
Published: March 2024

Sylvia Ashton Warner’s “organic teaching” methods are remembered in Thompson’s article.
We Are Doing This Already: Teacher Talk about Standards in Britain and America
Authors: Lofty John S.
Published: March 2024

Examines the evolving relationships between teachers and standards in Maine and in Derbyshire, England. The politics of who develops the curriculum and how it is implemented have strongly shaped teachers’ attitudes toward working with standards. Notes that while teachers believe they are substantially meeting those standards, documenting and demonstrating this is a complex challenge.
Young Adult Literature: A Boy’s Alternative to Bodice-Rippers by Katherine T. Bucher and M. Lee Manning
Authors: Crowe Chris
Published: March 2024

Discusses the genre of fantasy novels, noting its popularity with adolescent readers (especially boys). Notes sources helpful to teachers and school librarians, and lists a few personal favorite fantasy novels. Offers a brief note on whether the Harry Potter books can be considered young adult literature.
Professional Links: Active and Interactive Approaches to Poetry, Drama, and Classics
Authors: Reid Louann
Published: March 2024

Discusses six books that offer beginning and veteran teachers classroom-tested ideas to help students read and write poetry and other literature, and interact with each other as they strive to understand and appreciate classic drama and novels. Notes four websites that are good sites for teaching poetry.
The Ill Effects of the Five Paragraph Theme
Authors: Wesley Kimberly
Published: March 2024

Argues that the rigidity of the five paragraph theme actually dissuades students from practicing the rhetorical analysis necessary for them to become critical thinkers. Suggests that English teachers continue to teach the essay as a rhetorical form with three units, an introduction, a body, and a conclusion, which may consist of more than one paragraph.
Written Reflection: Creating Better Thinkers, Better Writers
Authors: Swartzendruber-Putnam Dawn
Published: March 2024

Dawn Swartzendruber-Putnam outlines strategies for teaching students to reflect upon their own writing, including reflection, asking questions, writer’s log, the draft letter, using models, the portfolio letter.
The Writing Process for “Edutaining” CD-ROM Adventures
Authors: Mountain Lee
Published: March 2024

Describes a CD-ROM adventure story written by the author to educate her students about the word relationships of synonyms and antonyms. Discusses how this interactive medium put a different twist on each of the stages of the writing process itself. Relates how two students enthusiastically used the program, and were inspired to write one of their own.
A Passion for Poetry: Breaking Rules and Boundaries with Online Relationships
Authors: Van Wyhe Tamara L. C.
Published: March 2024

Tamara L. C. Van Wyhe describes the method and the impact of an e-mail poetry writing and sharing project on her students, her school, and herself.
Sound and Sense in Children’s Picturebooks
Authors: Nikola-Lisa W.
Published: March 2024

A children’s author explores one aspect of learning about language that is present in picturebooks he writes: The relation between sound and sense.
Analyzing Words and Making Discoveries About the Alphabetic System: Activities for Beginning Readers
Authors: Gaskins Irene W. , Ehri Linnea C. , Cress Cheryl , O’hara Colleen , Donnelly Katharine
Published: March 2024

Teachers and researchers look again at the Benchmark Word Identification Program, explaining how they modified it to meet the needs of children who continued to have difficulty figuring out the alphabetic system of written language.
Focus on Research: The Future of Research in Language Arts
Authors: Purcell-Gates Victoria
Published: March 2024

Offers observations and reflections on research and research issues in the field of language arts. Discusses issues and factors significant to the state and future of language arts research, including: sociopolitical context, new and old issues confronting the field, and research needed for the public good.
Transactional Heat and Light: More Explicit Literacy Learning
Authors: Bomer Randy
Published: March 2024

Argues that explicit instruction is not a characteristic of teaching practices as much as an aspect of the negotiated space between teaching and learning. Describes how three teaching strategies that shift focus from teachers’ explicit telling to learners’ explicit thinking (demonstration, assisted performance, and reflective description) make learning more visible, deliberate, and self-aware.
Celebrating Linguistic Diversity
Authors: Crowell Caryl Gottlieb , Costell Sandra , Cribett-Bell Carol , Lohse Kathy , Martinez Carmen , Redondo Liz , Smiles Tracy , Smits Katrina , Short Kathy G.
Published: March 2024

Offers brief annotations of 45 illustrated children’s books that offer a vision of a linguistically rich world where language difference is a resource, not an obstacle. Groups the books in the following categories: codeswitching as authentic language; dual language texts; language and cultural traditions; alternate forms of communication; and personal and community voices.
Outrageous Viewpoints: Teachers’ Criteria for Rejecting Works of Children’s Literature
Authors: Wollman-Bonilla Julie E.
Published: March 2024

Examines why some pre- and inservice teachers concluded that certain children’s books were inappropriate for children because the books might frighten or corrupt children; fail to represent dominant social values or myths; or identify racism or sexism as a social problem. Describes how these criteria are consciously applied.
Roundtable on Books
Authors: Dorsey-Gaines Catherine , Allen Deborah , Ashelman Polly , Bauer Elizabeth , Conyers Vernell , Henry Kimberley , Holder Dani , Jackson Norma
Published: March 2024

Discusses two series of professional books (dealing with an integrated approach to literacy instruction and using poetry to help children feel the music of language) as well as three poetry collections that will be of interest to both teachers and teacher educators.
Getting Off My High Horse: A Whole Language Missionary Gets Her Comeuppance
Authors: Garan Elaine
Published: March 2024

Tells about how the author has been learning how to advocate for progressive literacy practices (such as whole language) without demeaning traditional reading and writing instruction and, ultimately, the teachers who enact those practices.
Testing the Way Children Learn: Principles for Valid Literacy Assessments
Authors: Falk Beverly
Published: March 2024

Outlines principles for assessments that are supportive of teaching and learning, and discusses qualities that such assessments must have in order to be useful for reporting information to the public. Introduces a language-arts assessment (the Elementary Literacy Profiles) designed to embody these principles and qualities so that it will be instructionally supportive as well as useful for accountability.
The California Reading Initiative: A Formula for Failure for Bilingual Students?
Authors: Freeman David , Freeman Yvonne S.
Published: March 2024

Describes the formation of the new “California Reading Initiative” that directly ties school funding to practices such as teaching phonemic awareness and systematic, explicit phonics. Assesses its research base, and discusses problems in teaching Limited-English-Proficient students to read following its directives. Presents research that supports an approach to reading instruction consistent with effective programs for bilingual students.
To See the World Afresh: Talking about Poetry
Authors: McClure Amy A. , Bownas Joan , Dapoz Lisa , Hildebrand Karen , Oxley Peggy , Webb Lillian , Weston Lynda
Published: March 2024

Reviews 31 collections of children’s poetry that help students see the world from a fresh perspective. Notes how they were used in a variety of classrooms and how children responded to them. Organizes the books in terms of: making the ordinary extraordinary; looking at relationships in new ways; new views of the world; and a fresh look at animals.
On the Carpet: Emergent Writer/Readers’ Letter Sharing in a Penpal Program
Authors: Berrill Deborah P. , Gall Molly
Published: March 2024

Analyzes the value of “time on the carpet” by examining how a class of first and second graders negotiate and construct meanings of letters from penpals (university preservice teacher candidates) during whole-class sharing time. Describes two functions of these meetings: sociocognitive re/construction and enculturation of textural norms of letter writing; and the celebration and valuing of human relationships.
Telling Stories through Writing and Dance: An Integenerational Project
Authors: Apol Laura , Kambour Tina
Published: March 2024

Shares the story of how dance and writing brought together a group of elderly and high-school-age women, through a 12-week program that used dance and writing to draw from personal stories and to inspire personal expression.
Misreading Masculinity: Speculations on the Great Gender Gap in Writing
Authors: Newkirk Thomas
Published: March 2024

Summarizes research on gender differences in writing, and challenges readers to reconsider how these are understood. Looks at the use of violence and humor versus sincerity in boys’ writing. Argues that, rather than seeing these differences as deficits, the cultural materials boys bring to the classroom should be acknowledged and engaged.
Resist High-Stakes Testing!: High Stakes Are for Tomatoes
Authors: Harman Susan
Published: March 2024

Presents a call to action (including an outline of specific ideas) to educators to resist high-stakes testing, and encourages them to stand up for what they know about how and why children learn (not by the threat of being retained or not graduating) and how and what to teach (not teaching to the tests).
Touching the Heart: Books that Amplify Life
Authors: Gilles Carol , Pfannenstiel Gennie
Published: March 2024

Describes 31 children’s books that connect with children and illustrate the significance that books that amplify life can hold for young and old alike. Discusses books with language and illustrations that are compelling, and how stories and images work together. Describes how teachers and college students chose books and artwork to help themselves and a fifth-grade class deal with death.
Making History with a Reader
Authors: McCallister Cynthia
Published: March 2024

A teacher and mom explores the consequences of schooling on identity and achievement through the her son’s involvement in four different situations: storybook encounters at home in early childhood, a first grade classroom with “abundant freedom,” a second grade classroom with an “impoverished curriculum,” and third and fourth grade classrooms at a public school that combined freedom with expectations. She concludes with three lessons learned.
Outstanding Educator in the Language Arts: Carole Edelsky
Authors: Altwerger Bess
Published: March 2024

Presents an interview with researcher and Teacher educator Carole Edelsky, named Outstanding Educator in the Language Arts by the National Council of Teachers of English. Discusses her work in sociolinguistics and in literacy education, her perspectives on literacy theory and pedagogy, how her political perspective permeates her work, her passionate activism, and her goals and dreams for the future.
Weekly Spelling Meetings: Improved Spelling Instruction through Classroom-Based Inquiry
Authors: Wright Kimberley A.
Published: March 2024

Shares how a fourth-grade teacher learned to use whole-class “Spelling Meetings” as a focus of her spelling instruction. Describes initiating spelling notebooks, the first spelling meeting, and subsequent ones as both teacher and students found their way, making adjustments and finding new directions, and having students catch themselves using a spelling strategy. Discusses student assessment of these spelling meetings.
Critical Literacy and Institutional Language
Authors: Cushman Ellen
Published: March 2024

Uses activist ethnographic field work to explore institutional language skills used by inner-city residents as they negotiated social services institutions. Shows residents’ critical awareness and political acumen as they complied with and resisted the structuring ideology of institutional agents. Raises questions about the methods of key critical pedagogues and the appropriateness of their assumption of false consciousness among disenfranchised people.
The Right to Write: Preservice Teachers’ Evolving Understandings of Authenticity and Aesthetic Heat in Multicultural Literature
Authors: Wolf Shelby A. , Ballentine Darcy , Hill Lisa
Published: March 2024

Questions whether authors can authentically represent a culture of which they are not a part. Considers what kind of shifts will occur in preservice teachers’ understandings of the “right to write.” Finds that as preservice teachers learn more about the current debate through class readings and discussions, they move from straightforward statements to hesitations over the hard issues raised.
Consensus Governance: Shared Responsibility Can Transform Your Work Environment
Authors: Merickel Alan , Pekins John
Published: March 2024

Moving to a consensus form of governance will create a participatory, productive department in which empowerment replaces feuds and power struggles.
Emphasizing the “What If?” of Revision: Serial Collaboration and Quasi-Hypertext
Authors: Brown Jane Lightcap
Published: March 2024

Serial collaboration promotes the many possibilities of developing and revising student texts.
Those Unfamiliar Names and Faces: The Hiring, Management, and Evaluation of Part-Time Faculty
Authors: Styne Marlys M.
Published: March 2024

A review of one two-year college English department’s procedures reveals the complexities of dealing with part-time faculty.
Acts of Defiance (and Other Mixed Messages): Taking Up Space in a Nontransfer Course
Authors: Wilson Smokey
Published: March 2024

Argues that the labels "basic" or "developmental" as applied to students often obscure the complexities of knowing who is underprepared for what, kinds of barriers that countermand mastery, and instructors’ roles in helping construct these barriers. Views closely the behaviors by which four students in a developmental writing class presented themselves.
Using Journalism Writing to Improve College Composition
Authors: Laurenty Yvonne G.
Published: March 2024

Details a first-year college composition course that blends journalism instruction with first-year composition. Describes how students learn about news gathering and news writing techniques common to feature writing and complete a profile writing project which encourages a level of discourse that bears closer kinship to everyday workplace writing. Discusses course design, implementation, and evaluation.
Gender and the On-Line Classroom
Authors: Sullivan Patrick
Published: March 2024

Argues that a carefully designed and skillfully moderated asynchronous Internet classroom environment can help minimize problems related to gender in traditional classrooms. Discusses class “climate” and class discussion in the traditional classroom and in the online classroom. Notes research related to gender and the online classroom. Outlines course design and teaching strategies. Offers a policy for online class conduct.
Future Research in Two-Year College English
Authors: Strasma Kip , Resnick Paul
Published: March 2024

Offers future researchers many opportunities for research in two-year college English. Considers input about issues, problems, and questions which the research community still needs to engage. Assumes that research clusters around several “fault lines” shared by other groups and institutions not directly tied to education; the fault lines selected are identity, technology, diversity, pedagogy, literacy, and methodology.
Following the Tao
Authors: Hacker Diana
Published: March 2024

Discusses 5 principles from the “Tao Te Ching” (an ancient Chinese classic intended for rulers) and how they can be applied by composition teachers. Suggests many of the insights in the “Tao” have become accepted wisdom in the teaching of composition.
What’s Age Got to Do with It? Teaching Older Students in Computer-Aided Classrooms
Authors: Crow Angela
Published: March 2024

Suggests teachers helping older students in computer-aided classrooms should (1) expect these students to perform more slowly and to make more errors; (2) avoid comparisons that cause confusion due to students’ prior knowledge; (3) be aware of the danger of overload from information clutter; and (4) sequence assignments based on scaffolding concepts and on building skills through repetition.
Engaging Students in the Literature Classroom: Reflections of a Compositionist
Authors: Ng Joseph S.
Published: March 2024

Claims lower-division literature courses can engage students by incorporating student text into the anthologized canon. Describes specific classroom situations and effective strategies for connecting literature to students’ lives.
Expanding the Scope of Personal Writing in the Composition Classroom
Authors: Elder Dana C.
Published: March 2024

Proposes assigning polemics, suasive essays, and paradoxical encomia as a means to help students write in classical civic discourse forms, which enfranchise the personal in the service of the community. Presents guidelines for each assignment.
Sappho and Aphrodite
Authors: Blaisdell Bob
Published: March 2024

Describes a class discussion in the author’s first-year composition class at a New York City community college, after students read a volume of Sappho’s poetry. Discusses issues of reading comprehension, poetry, gender-preference prejudice, and how they were all set straight by one student from Brooklyn.
INSTRUCTIONAL NOTE : Overcoming Student Resistance to Group Work
Authors: Butts Elizabeth A.
Published: March 2024

Discusses several methods the author uses to overcome students’ negative attitudes about working in small groups. Discusses preliminary activities (including a class discussion and direct instruction). Describes the group assignment, including a general overview, specifics of the assignment, and ways to overcome common group work problems.
Audience and Revision: Middle Schoolers Slam Poetry
Authors: Jester Judith
Published: March 2024

Describes organizing a poetry “slam” (a contest in which people read their original poems and listeners cast votes for their favorites) involving 200 eighth graders from two different schools. Discusses how this experience made vivid for students the need to write for an audience and to revise.
Professional Voices/Author’s Portrait: Honoring the Complexities of Our Lives: An Interview with Karen Hesse
Authors: Bryant Ellen Huntington
Published: March 2024

Presents an interview with award-winning author Karen Hesse, discussing her writing for children and young adults. Discusses how ideas for particular books arose, as well as the research and writing processes that went into them. Appends reviews of nine books by Karen Hesse.
Double-Dutch, Hopscotch, B-ball, and … Poetry!: Using Children’s Games to Create Performances of Rhythmic Poems
Authors: Gardoqui Kate E.
Published: March 2024

Describes how a seventh-grade teacher introduced her students to poetry by having them create performances of rhythmic poems. Describes how her students created moving performances of poems and responded to poetry with deeper and more personal insights than she had ever seen. Describes students’ public poetry performances. Offers examples of students’ poetry and a list of recommended resources.