bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
PEMBUATAN MEDIA PERTUMBUHAN BAKTERI MENGGUNAKAN TEPUNG BIJI NANGKA (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lamk) UNTUK PERTUMBUHAN BAKTERI Staphylococcus aureus
Authors: Haryati Eti , Pandanwangi TW Siti , Nabila Esra Reinanda , Nurpatmawati Nurpatmawati
Published: March 2024

Protein dan karbohidrat merupakan komponen penting dalam media pertumbuhan bakteri. Tepung biji nangka (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lamk) memiliki kandungan protein dan karbohidrat yang diperlukan oleh bakteri Staphylococcus aureus untuk tumbuh dan berkembang biak. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk menentukan berat tepung biji nangka yang paling baik sebagai media pertumbuhan bakteri Staphylococcus aureus. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah eksperimental menggunakan media tepung biji nangka berat 2 gram, 2,5 gram dan 3 gram ditambah aquadest dan agar rose serta nutrient agar sebagai kontrol positif, dengan bakteri pengenceran 10-4 , 10-5 dan 10-6 . Data statistik menggunakan analisis varians satu arah (ANOVA) dan uji post hoc-LSD. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan pertumbuhan koloni bakteri Staphylococcus aureus dengan media tepung biji nangka pada berat 2 gram dengan pengenceran 10-4 , 10-5 dan 10- 6 adalah 260 koloni, 190 koloni, dan 130 koloni. Pada berat 2,5 gram dengan pengenceran 10-4 , 10-5 dan 10-6 adalah 290 koloni, 109 koloni, 169 koloni. Pada berat 3 gram dengan pengenceran 10-4 , 10-5 dan 10-6 adalah 315 koloni, 268 koloni, 183 koloni. Pada pertumbuhan koloni bakteri staphylococcus aureus pada nutrient agar dengan pengenceran 10-4 , 10-5 , dan 10-6 adalah 635 koloni, 536 koloni, dan 332 koloni, Kesimpulan diperoleh bahwa media tepung biji nangka dapat digunakan sebagai media pertumbuhan bakteri Staphylococcus aureus. Media tepung biji nangka berat 3 gram yang paling baik sebagai media pertumbuhan bakteri Staphylococcus aureus tetapi tidak setara dengan kontrol positif.
REVIEW JURNAL : PENERAPAN NANO EMULSI DALAM UPAYA PENURUNAN KASUS TINGKAT TUBERKULOSIS
Authors: Wahyuni Nisa Sri , Baety Shelly Siti Nour , Alwia Nisa , Rizkita Aden Dhana , Hafidz Muhammad Rafi
Published: March 2024

Tuberkulosis (TB) adalah penyakit yang disebabkan oleh infeksi mikroorganisme cepat korosif, tuberkulosis dapat ditularkan dengan adanya tetesan yang mengandung basil, dan bergantung pada jumlah tuberkel yang terhirup dan daya tahan tubuh seseorang yang terinfeksi tuberkulosis. Dengan adanya peningkatan penyakit TBC pasar farmasi mengembangkan pengobatan pada teknologi pembentukan formulasi dalam bentuk nano yang memiliki banyak keunggulan diantaranya dapat mengurangi degradasi enzimatik dan dapat mengontrol laju pelepasan obat. Akibatnya, aksesibilitas obat dapat dibuat menjadi nanoemulsi. Nanoemulsi adalah kerangka pembawa obat sebagai emulsi dan memiliki ukuran molekul 20-500 nm. Senyawa allicin dapat menghambat Mycobacterium tuberculosis, dan curcumin berhasil memberantas TB mikroorganisme. Tujuan review jurnal ini untuk memberikan informasi mengenai pembuatan nanoemulsi dari bahan alam ekstrak umbi daun bawang putih (Alliun sativum) dan daun kelor (Moringa oleifera Lamk) yang dapat menghambat dan memberantas penyakit tuberkulosis. Pembuatan nanoemulsi menggunakan beberapa metode antara lain ekstraksi, homogenisasi, dan maserasi. Bahan yang digunakan pada ekstrak daun kelor adalah propilen glikol, etanol 96%, VCO, tahap air pendukung fosfat. Sedangkan pada ekstrak umbi bawang putih adalah PEG 400, Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO), Tween 80, etanol 96%, dan aquadest. Surfaktan dan pelarut yang digunakan untuk kedua ekstrak tersebut adalah tween 80 dan 96% etanol. Hasil pengujian menunjukkan bahwa nanoemulsi pada ekstrak umbi bawang putih (Allium sativum) dengan menggunakan hasil konsentrasi Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO) 8%. Dari ketiga susunan formulasi pada pengujian stabilitas nanoemulsi, tidak ada perubahan pada pengujian organoleptik, pada uji pH formulasi I dan II tidak menunjukkan perbedaan yang signifikan dalam hasil yang ditunjukkan pada nilai p-Value 1.000 dan 0,225 (>0,05). Pada formulasi III menghasilkan perbedaan secara signifikan yang ditunjukkan pada nilai p-Value 0,038 (0,05). Sedangkan ekstrak daun kelor (Moringa oleifera Lamk) sebanyak 20% menghasilkan nanoemulsi yang lebih baik dibandingkan konsentrasi 30%, pada perlakuan campuran antara kecepatan 30.000 rpm, dengan suhu ruang sekitar (27-30°C) dan waktu pengadukan selama 20 menit. Pada uji coba kedua ekstrak tersebut, setelah dilakukan pengujian didapatkan hasil nanoemulsi yang stabil dan memiliki kelarutan yang baik.
REVIEW JURNAL : ENKAPSULASI GELATIN TULANG IKAN LELE
Authors: Rizkita Aden Dhana , Gibran Syahrul Syah , Rohman Ayu Andini Rizki Lestari , Saldaw Antan , Yohanes Kon
Published: March 2024

Sediaan yang mengandung satu jenis obat atau lebih dan dimasukkan ke dalam cangkang disebut kapsul. Cangkang kapsul dapat terbuat dari gelatin. Gelatin dapat ditemukan pada kulit atau tulang beberapa hewan, seperti sapi dan ikan. Tulang ikan lele juga dapat digunakan sebagai sumber gelatin. Oleh karena itu, review artikel ini dibuat untuk memberikan informasi berbagai hasil penelitian mengenai bagaiman membuat dan melakukan evaluasi cangkang kapsul dari tulang ikan lele Clarias garepinus. Metode penelitian yang digunakan untuk enkapsulasi gelatin tulang ikan lele menggunakan metode asam menghasilkan bubuk gelatin dari tulang ikan lele. Uji gelatin menunjukkan pH 4,85 dan kadar air 13,5%. Setelah mengubah jumlah gelatin yang digunakan, gelatin yang dihasilkan kemudian dipisahkan menjadi dua formula (formula I mengandung 25 gram gelatin dan formula II mengandung 35 gram gelatin). Dari uji yang di dapatkan formula 1 menghasilkan cangkang kapsul yang rapuh dan formula 2 menghasilkan cangkang kapsul yang tidak rapuh. Dalam uji coba kerapuhan di dapatkan hasil bahwa cangkang kapsul formula 2 memenuhi standar karena cangkang kapsul yang di hasilkan tidak rapuh. Setelah di lakukan penelitian dari beberapa jurnal dapat di simpulkan bahwa gelatin tulang ikan lele hampir memenuhi standar dan cangkang kapsul yang terbuat dari tulang ikan lele memenuhi standar.
ANALISIS DRPs PASIEN DIABETES MELITUS TIPE 2 PADA PELAYANAN RAWAT INAP DI RSUD X KABUPATEN KUNINGAN
Authors: Karsidin Bambang , TW Siti Pandanwangi , Joharudin Ade , Mariya Arum , Setriyadi Dedy , Nuari Ris Ayu
Published: March 2024

Diabetes melitus tipe 2 merupakan gangguan sekresi insulin yang progresif yang menyebabkan terjadinya resistensi insulin. Ini terjadi karena tetapi insulin tidak bisa membawa glukosa masuk ke dalam jaringan karena terjadi resistensi insulin yang merupakan turunnya kemampuan insulin untuk menghambat produksi glukosa oleh hati, sehingga mengakibatkan rentan terjadinya Drug related problems (DRPs). Tujuan dari penelitian ini yaitu untuk mengetahui persentase kejadian dari masing-masing DRPs yang meliputi ada indikasi tanpa obat, ada obat tanpa indikasi, ketidaktepatan pemilihan obat, dosis rendah, dosis tinggi, interaksi obat, efek samping obat dan tingkat kepatuhan pasien dalam terapi pengobatan pasien       diabetes melitus tipe 2 di RSUD X Kabupaten Kuningan.
Penelitian ini bersifat non eksperimental dengan rancangan penelitian deskriptif dan pengambilan data rekapitulasi medik secara retrospektif. Dari 254 pasien diabetes melitus tipe 2 di RSUD X Kabupaten Kuningan, jumlah sampel yang diambil sebanyak 72 pasien yang mmemenuhi kriteria inklusi. Analisis kejadian DRPs dilakukan dengan membandingkan hasil penelitian dengan buku standar secara deskriptif.
Hasil penelitian menunjukkan ada kejadian Drug related problems pada pasien diabetes melitus tipe 2 di RSUD X Kabupaten Kuningan. Persentase kejadian DRPs kategori indikasi tanpa obat tidak terdapat kasus yang terjadi, obat tanpa indikasi terdapat 1 kasus (1,4%), ketidaktepatan pemilihan obat sebanyak 5  kasus (6,9%), dosis rendah sebanyak 4 kasus (5,6%), dosis tinggi sebanyak 4 kasus (5,6%), interaksi obat sebanyak 21 kasus (29,1%), kategori efek samping 35 kasus (48,6%), dan tingkat kepatuhan pasien rendah sebanyak 37 kasus (51,4%).
TINGKAT PENGETAHUAN TENTANG TOGA DENGAN PEMANFAATAN TOGA PADA IBU YANG MEMILIKI ANAK STUNTING
Authors: TW Siti Pandanwangi , Wahyuni Yenny Sri , Zuniarto Ahmad Azrul , Akbar Rai Fadiilah , Suhada Tatik Sofiyani
Published: March 2024

Pengetahuan tentang tanaman obat keluarga sudah ada sejak jaman dahulu. Diantara manfaat dan kegunaannya baik untuk upaya peningkatan kesehatan, mencegah dari penyakit, penyembuhan penyakit dan pemulihan. Berdasarkan hasil laporan nasional Riset Kesehatan Dasar tahun 2018, proporsi pemanfaatan TOGA di Indonesia sebesar 24,6%. Pemanfaatan TOGA untuk kesehatan balita dapat diawali dari tanaman yang ada di pekarangan rumah atau di lingkungan tempat tinggal. Dengan pengetahuan yang benar tentang pemanfaatan TOGA bagi kesehatan balita akan mendorong peningkatan pengobatan balita yang sakit maupun mencegah sakit dengan meningkatkan daya tahan tubuh balita. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui hubungan tingkat pengetahuan tentang TOGA dengan perilaku pemanfaatan TOGA pada ibu anak stunting.
Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kuantitatif metode observasional analitik dengan jenis penelitian cross sectional. Sampel yang digunakan sebanyak 50 responden ibu anak stunting. Data dikumpulkan melalui kuesioner penelitian.
Hasil uji tingkat pengetahuan tentang TOGA terdapat 44 responden dengan pengetahuan baik (88%). Perilaku pemanfaatan TOGA dengan kategori cukup 26 responden (52%). Hasil analisis menggunakan uji korelasi Rank Spearman terdapat hubungan tingkat pengetahuan tentang TOGA dengan perilaku pemanfaatan TOGA pada ibu anak stunting dengan nilai p-value sebesar 0,001, korelasi sedang (0,455) dengan arah korelasi positif.
Technology, Personal Information, and Identity
Authors: Leuenberger Muriel ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: March 2024

Novel and emerging technologies can provide users with new kinds and unprecedented amounts of information about themselves, such as autobiographical information, neurodata, health information, or characteristics inferred from online behavior. Technology that provides extensive personal information (PI technology) can impact who we understand ourselves to be, how we constitute ourselves, and indeed who we are. This paper analyzes how PI technology’s external, quantified perspective on us affects identity based on a narrative identity theory. Disclosing the intimate relationship between PI technology and identity sheds light on a whole new range of ethical issues that have received insufficient attention so far. Personal information provided by technology is not just information that belongs to individuals but also changes them.
Edukasi Pola Asuh Positif Dan Pergaulan Dalam Moderasi Beragama Sebagai Program Pengentasan Stunting Di Desa Pehwetan
Authors: Anam Masrul , Aprilia Anggraini Ali
Published: March 2024

Stunting is a health problem that is currently being discussed in Indonesia. This is no exception in Pehwetan Village, Papar Sub-district, Kediri District. The case of stunting in Pehwetan Village is quite high, which is ranked first in Papar Sub-district, Kediri District. One way to reduce the stunting rate in Pehwetan Village is by improving the right parenting style. Indirectly, the choice of parenting patterns can affect stunting cases, parents who do not understand parenting patterns in meeting the nutritional needs of children, both child nutrition while in the womb and nutrition after the child is born, such as related to food security and environmental sanitation. In addition to the high number of stunting cases, another interesting thing is the community life that can coexist amid religious diversity. The research method used is the PAR research method in which a scientific problem study is carried out in order to direct, improve, and evaluate decisions and actions of the research object.. The results of this study are that there is an increase in understanding obtained by socialization participants with evidence of an increase in scores on the post test. Judging from the level of knowledge of the participants, it shows that they also have the motivation and encouragement to improve themselves in learning and add to their insights about the importance of parenting and getting to know association in religious moderation
PERAN MANAJEMEN REFERENSI TERHADAP KARYA ILMIAH PADA ASISTENSI PENULISAN ARTIKEL ILMIAH PADA JURNAL TERAKREDITASI SINTA SERIES KE 7
Authors: Paska Marto Hasugian
Published: March 2024

Asistensi merupakan suatu kegiatan yang memberikan pelatihan kepada Peserta untuk mempersiapkan karya ilmiah yang berkualitas serta memenuhi standar yang telah ditetapkan oleh Publisher, metode yang dilakukan dalam pelaksanaan kegiatan Asistensi dengan kegiatan webiner, rangkaian kegaitan yang dilakukan melakukan Pendampingan mulai dari persiapan paper, pemenuhan kajian pustaka serta menajemen referensi sampai dengan teknis pembuatan draf. Kegiatan yang dilakukan dengan jumlah peserta sebanyak 100 orang dari berbagai daerah berbagai Perguruan Tinggi diindonesia. Tujuan dari kegiatan ini memberikan motivasi kepada para dosen muda untuk memiliki kemampuan dalam mempersiapkan diri membuat paper yang berkualitas serta layak untuk diterima pada publikasi sinta serta menuju publikias internasional. Topik yang disampaikan oleh Penulis dalam kegiatan ini berfokus terhadap teknis publikasi menyangkut pencarian referensi, penggunaan Tools serta manajemen referensi dengan menggunakan aplikasi mandelay. Kegiatan ini dilakukan secara berkelanjutan 2 kali dalam setahun.
PROGRAM PENDIDIKAN DAN BAKTI SOSIAL DALAM UPAYA PENINGKATAN MINAT BELAJAR DAN KREATIFITAS ANAK DI DESA PATUMBAK II
Authors: Fahmi Sulaiman  , Neni Triastuti  , Lubis Kartika Sari
Published: March 2024

Pendidikan di Desapatumbak II merupakan pendidikan yang cukup terpenuhi Di bidang sarana dan prasana maupun Sumber Daya Manusia atau Pengajar nya. Akan tetapi Anak-anak yang di Desa Patumbak II memiliki minat belajar yang minim. Sehingga memungkinkan terjadinya suatu desa atau wilayah menjadi tehambat. Tujuan dilaksanakannya pengabdian bagi masyarakat ini untuk anak-anak sadar pentingnya belaja runtuk pendidikan mereka, dan Pengabdian Pada Masyarakat ini di laksanakan agar memberikan pelajaran lebih di waktu kosong mereka khususnya di hari minggu dari Siang hari sampai Sore hari. Target yang dicapai dalam pengabdian pada masyarakat ini ialah meningkatkan minat belajar anak-anak Desa Patumbak II dan tidak hanya belajar. Bermain atau dengan ice breaking jadikan pemancing agar anak-anak bisa lebih niat untuk belajar bersama . Dan jugaBakti Sosial Rumah belajar ini dapat menambah Kebersamaan anak-anak, menambah wawasan berbahasa,wawasan belajar,wawasan mengenai sampah,dan wawasan kreatifitas dalam membuat kerajinan daur ulang. Metode yang digunakan adalah dengan memberikan penjelasan tentang bagaimana cara membaca,berhitung,belajar mengaji, menciptakan kebersamaan, memilah sampah organik dan non organik ,dan membuat kerajinan tangan dari barang bekas. Sesisosialisasi berupa Tanya jawab tentang materi yang disampaikan, dan melakukan evaluasi terhadap kemampuan anak-anak desa dengan mengadakan Tanya jawab di akhir belajar dan memberikan rewards kepada mereka berupa hadiah,dan setiap di akhir belajar memberikan snack kepada anak-anak, itu bentuk rasa perduli kepada mereka. Dan mengadakan lomba di akhir pertemuan sebagai bentuk Reward kepada anak-anak. Dan anak-anak yang kurang berani tampil juga berikan hadiah agar mereka tidak merasa berkecil hati. Hasil dari realisas ipengabdian pengajaran di DesaPatumbak II terlaksana dengan baik dan dapatberjalan dengan lancar dan mampu diterima oleh anak-anak Desa Patumbak II.
KENDALA PEMBELAJARAN SISTEM BERGELOMBANG DI SMP PAB 5 PATUMBAK 1
Authors: Tanjung M. Rizki Wijaya , Pasaribu Munawir
Published: March 2024

Kegiatan belajar mengajar di Indonesia di masa Pandemi Covid-19 semakin hari semakin memburuk karena penerapan sekolah daring dari rumah masing-masing bahkan sekolah tatap muka, namun menggunakan sistem gelombang menjadi kendala besar bagi guru dan wali murid pada umumnya. Dengan sekolah daring, semua kegiatan belajar mengajar harus disampaikan secara totalitas. Dengan ini juga memaksakan pembelajaran jarak jauh (PJJ) yang membuat minat belajar siswa menurun.
Pedagogies of the “Students’ Right” Era: The Language Curriculum Research Group’s Project for Linguistic Diversity
Authors: Wible Scott
Published: March 2024

This essay examines a Brooklyn College–based research collective that placed African American languages and cultures at the center of the composition curriculum. Recovering such pedagogies challenges the perception of the CCCC’s 1974 “Students’ Right to Their Own Language” resolution as a progressive theory divorced from the everyday practices and politics of the composition classroom.
Forging Pedagogical Paths to Multiple Ways of Knowing
Authors: Whitin Phyllis
Published: March 2024

The literacy beliefs teachers hold influence the kinds of experiences they make available to their students (Myers, 1996). As visual modes become increasingly central to communication (Kress, 2004; New London Group, 1996), it is essential to provide preservice teachers opportunities to expose and challenge beliefs that privilege only alphabetic texts.
Speaking My Mind: The Sentence-Structure Dilemma
Authors: Johnson Walter H.
Published: March 2024

“Speaking My Mind” invites readers to speak out about controversial issues relevant to the teaching of English language arts.
Unveiling Students’ Perceptions about Women in Islam
Authors: Cohen Lori , Peery Leyna
Published: March 2024

The authors describe a literature unit using texts by and about Muslim women. Studying women’s roles through a variety of genres—short story, essays, graphic novel, film—helped students broaden their understanding of women in the Islamic world.
From the Secondary Section: Guiding Research: A Collaborative Approach
Authors: Derrico Regina Dunlavey
Published: March 2024

Members of the Secondary Section Steering Committee comment on topics of importance to English language arts educators.
Creating Possibilities: Embedding Research into Creative Writing
Authors: Wirtz Jason
Published: March 2024

Jason Wirtz has turned his research unit into a creative writing project. While still relying on traditional methodology, including requiring students to write a “miniature research paper,” the true goal is for students to write a short story that embeds their research to enhance the narrative.
Using Student Collaboration to Foster Progressive Discourse
Authors: Kendrick Mary
Published: March 2024

Truly meaningful discussion helps students develop new knowledge about the world around them.
Research for the Classroom: What Are You Willing to Fight For?
Authors: Wertz Jessica A.
Published: March 2024

A Review of Thomas Newkirk’s Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones: Six Literacy Principles Worth Fighting For.
Yisha’s First Year of English Acquisition
Authors: Liu Fuchang
Published: March 2024

A father reflects on his daughter’s acquisition of a new language during her first year in the United States after a move with her family from China. This article reflects on how the parents and the teachers helped Yisha, a 9-year-old Chinese girl, with her English acquisition. Within the year, Yisha became fluent in English and finished all her courses with straight A’s.
EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION: Basic Hopes
Authors: DiPardo Anne , Sperling Melanie
Published: March 2024

In these pages we once again witness the complexity of the teaching-learning process”in elaborately woven webs of instructional talk, in teachers’ and students’ stumbling attempts to reach shared understandings, in the difficult task of assessing what students have already mastered, and in our efforts to develop insights into the needs of diverse learners.
Orality And Literacy: A Symposium In Honor Of David Olson: Monologic and Dialogic Discourses as Mediators of Education
Authors: Wells Gordon
Published: March 2024

Preeminent scholar David Olson opens this symposium with a reflection on the decades-long debate concerning the relationship between written and oral discourse. His essay is followed by a series of responses by leading literacy researchers, including David Bloome, Anne Haas Dyson, James Paul Gee, Martin Nystrand, Victoria Purcell-Gates, and Gordon Wells. The symposium concludes with a further essay by Professor Olson, in which he offers his reflections on these scholars’ comments and looks to the continuing conversation.
Orality And Literacy: A Symposium In Honor Of David Olson: Resonse: Continuing the Discourse on Literacy
Authors: Olson David R.
Published: March 2024

Preeminent scholar David Olson opens this symposium with a reflection on the decades-long debate concerning the relationship between written and oral discourse. His essay is followed by a series of responses by leading literacy researchers, including David Bloome, Anne Haas Dyson, James Paul Gee, Martin Nystrand, Victoria Purcell-Gates, and Gordon Wells. The symposium concludes with a further essay by Professor Olson, in which he offers his reflections on these scholars’ comments and looks to the continuing conversation.
Announcing the Alan C. Purves Award Winner (Volume 40)
Authors: Bonnick Karen , Christensen Eddi , Diaz Gemmati (Chair) Griselle M. , Dudley-Marling Curt , Henkin Roxanne
Published: March 2024

The 2006 Alan C. Purves Award Committee is pleased to announce this year’s recipients’ Sarah Warshauer Freedman, Verda Delp, and Suzanne Mills Crawford, for Teaching English in Untracked Classrooms (which appeared in the August, 2005 issue of Research in the Teaching of English, pp. 62-126). Here, the committee discusses the implications of this work for guiding important reforms in educational practice.
Teaching Trickster Tales: A Comparison of Instructional Approaches
Authors: Jarvey Marya , McKeough Anne , Pyryt Michael C.
Published: March 2024

Trickster tales, with their teachings on how to behave in the world, are a powerful means for transmitting social knowledge and cultural mores to children. In this study we compared two approaches to teaching fourth-grade students to write trickster tales. Although both instructional methods incorporated aspects of the writing process approach, only the developmentally based method took into account students’ expected developmental growth patterns in narrative composition.
Announcing the Alan C. Purves Award Winner (Volume 42)
Authors: CÃ³rdova Ralph A. , Hudson Jeffrey , Breck Susan , Parson Parson
Published: March 2024

The 2008 Alan C. Purves Award Committee is pleased to announce this year’s recipient, Beth Maloch, for “Beyond Exposure: The Uses of Information Texts in a Second Grade Classroom,” which appeared in the February 2008 issue of Research in the Teaching of English (pp. 315-362). Here the committee discusses the importance of Maloch’s work and its implications for teaching and future research.
Standpoints: A Call for New Research on New and Multi-Literacies
Authors: Birr Moje Elizabeth
Published: March 2024

Elizabeth Birr Moje argues for a nuanced and reflective appraoch to the study of adolexcents’ use of digital technology.
Editors’ Introduction: Literate Practices: Theory, Method, and Disciplinary Boundary Work
Authors: Dressman Mark , McCarthey Sarah , Prior Paul
Published: March 2024

At universities, scholars in English studies manage what Gieryn (1999) called disciplinary boundary work (the rhetorical making and policing of boundaries that construct the discipline and its institutional formations as different from other disciplines and social formations) through categorical contrasts, including: literary criticism vs. writing studies/rhetoric; scholarship vs. creative writing; quantitative vs. qualitative research; university vs. Kâ€“12 schooling; university vs. workplace; and, of course, that most basic border of disciplinarity”disciplinary knowledge vs. everyday belief and culture. The two research reports in this issue of RTE both address college-level work in the field and both highlight interesting ways in which current theoretical and methodological developments are putting pressure on disciplinary boundaries in English studies.
Position Statement on Two-Year College Writing Centers
Authors: Pennington Jill , Gardner Clint
Published: March 2024

This position statement was inspired by the “Position Statement on Graduate Students in Writing Center Administration” (endorsed by the International Writing Center Association on November 17, 2001). A purpose of the document, to borrow language from the graduate student position statement, is to “[suggest] an ideal set of conditions,” and it is written with the “intention of improving working conditions” within the two-year college writing center. Ultimately, though, its main purpose is to help community college writing centers establish a collective argument in defense of what we do.
Instructional Note: The Numbers Approach to Grading Papers
Authors: Zigmond Rosalyn H.
Published: March 2024

Recognizing that students shudder at revision and see it as a perfunctory task to satisfy only their teachers, the author offers an approach that motivates students to revise thoughtfully without increasing teachers’ reading workload.
Writing Back
Authors: Mitchler Sharon J.
Published: March 2024

A survey of recent texts affirms there is no single, correct way to respond to student writing. The latest discussion reveals variations in what students want, systems instructors use to respond, and types of comments instructors may write.
Guidelines for the Academic Preparation of English Faculty at Two-Year Colleges
Authors:   TYCA
Published: March 2024

The highly competent professor of English in today’s two-year college—like highly competent faculty at all levels of education—is a skilled educator, a knowledgeable scholar, and an active learner and contributor within the profession. What distinguishes the two-year college teacher-scholar is his or her dedication to open educational access, commitment to democratic participation and equity within higher education, and ability to help make these ideals a reality for highly diverse learners from eighteen to eighty and from backgrounds that cross conventional divides of race, ethnicity, class, and academic preparation.
Instructional Notes: Instant Replay: Creating Commentators on a Literary Field
Authors: Villeneuve Anna
Published: March 2024

Many students struggle to analyze literature and fall into writing plot summary, but if students become commentators by examining instant replays of the text, the task becomes easier.
Assignments by Design
Authors: Strasma Kip
Published: March 2024

An effective assignment design for writing classes unfolds at the crossroads of theory and practice; instruction and reflection; and experience and serendipity.
Instructional Note: Of “Indians,” History, and Truth: Postmodernism 101 for First-Year Students
Authors: Wiley Nicole
Published: March 2024

This article details a strategy for empowering students in a first-semester composition course through cultural literacy by using Jane Tompkins’s essay “‘Indians’: Textualism, Morality,and the Problem of History,” in my first-semester college composition course.
History, Hollywood, and the Hood: Challenging Racial Assumptions in Rural Central Wisconsin
Authors: Pruitt John
Published: March 2024

In light of research on diversity learning and teaching, an introductory course on cinematic depictions of African Americans taught at a predominately white, rural university campus leads students to see the impact of history and Hollywood on their own local and statewide communities.
Poem: Naming the Significance
Authors: Cornog Jackie
Published: March 2024

Jackie Cornog is chair of the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology in Boston.
Poem: English as a Second Language
Authors: Albin C. D.
Published: March 2024

C. D. Albin is professor of English at Missouri State University–West Plains and has contributed poems to several journals, including Big Muddy, Limestone, and Teaching English in the Two-Year College.
The Waiting Self
Authors: Santini Laurel
Published: March 2024

This essay explores the conflict between teaching writing and one’s own writing practice.
Class in the Class: Sharing Bukowski’s Class with Community College Students
Authors: Hiraldo Carlos
Published: March 2024

The article argues for raising class consciousness among community college students and describes how the author employs the writings of Charles Bukowski to reach an ethnically diverse, but predominantly working-class student population.
The View from Here
Authors: Bodmer Paul
Published: March 2024

Paul Bodmer works in the Washington, DC office of NCTE, where he represents the Council on higher education issues in English studies and literacy education. Here he shares with TETYC readers the insights he has learned on the job.
What We Talked about When We Talked about Disability
Authors: Gould Kathleen
Published: March 2024

Even with careful, thoughtful planning and attention to the scholarship in disability studies, any course that centers on literature featuring illness and disability inevitably interrogates the philosophical positions and social values of the disabled community, as well as those of the able-bodied, necessitating a classroom that is sensitive to discomfort encountered when participants’ deeply held beliefs come into conflict with their own desires to be seen as politically correct.
Rhetoric of Race: Critical Pedagogy without Resistance
Authors: Corkery Caleb
Published: March 2024

This essay reports on an effective approach to teaching both rhetorical skills and white racial awareness by using historical moments when racial definitions were asserted and defended, allowing students to see their constructed racial identities through a nonthreatening rhetorical lens.
Instructional Note: Grading the War Story
Authors: Burdick Melanie
Published: March 2024

This article considers the emotional and psychological complexities of responding to personal narratives when the focus is war.
Instructional Note: Casualties of War: Combat Trauma and the Return of the Combat Veteran
Authors: Kiely Denis O. , Swift Lisa
Published: March 2024

This essay discusses how firsthand accounts of American soldiers can help literature students appreciate how the combat trauma and homecoming experiences of today’s soldiers parallel the stories of Homeric heroes.
Teaching about Race and Class in Early American Literature
Authors: Mazurek Raymond A.
Published: March 2024

The essay discusses a thematic approach to teaching the first half of the American literature survey, focusing on race, whiteness, and class.
To the Point!
Authors: Meyer Rick
Published: March 2024

Rick Meyer looks at the cognitive frames that lead to students and their schools being labeled “below proficient” or “needs improvement” by various government agencies and proposes instead a new frame through which we can see the remarkable achievements of students and their teachers.
From the Editors - Talking Points - October 2006
Authors: Martens Prisca , Altwerger Bess
Published: March 2024

Prisca Martens and Bess Altwerger introduce the articles in this issue of Talking Points and encourage readers to attend the 2007 Literacies for All Summer Institute
To the Point!
Authors: Meyer Rick
Published: March 2024

Rick Meyer reflects on past conferences of the Whole Language Umbrella and discusses the energy and sense of commitment that he gets from attending.
To the Point!
Authors: Meyer Rick
Published: March 2024

Rick Meyer discusses a documentary about the May 2006 teachers’ strike in Oaxaca, Mexico, and suggests that we use this as an opportunity to ask ourselves what we are doing to take action against teacher oppression in our schools.
From the Editors
Authors: Wygant James , Lanphar Edie
Published: March 2024

James Wygant and Edie Lanphar, the new editors of Talking Points, introduce their first issue, the theme of which is “Literacies for a Just and Sustainable World.”
Teacher Fiction: Move On
Authors: O’Shaughnessy Corinne
Published: March 2024

In Talking Points’ first published piece of teacher fiction, Corinne O’Shaughnessy offers vignettes from the lives of several students and a look at the concerns and doubts of new teacher Ned, who’s not sure he has anything to offer them.
A Marvel in the Making: Composing a Shakespearean Comic Book in a High School English Class
Authors: Costello Adrienne M.
Published: March 2024

High school students working in small groups create Shakespearean comic books to bring the text of Romeo and Juliet alive for themselves and their classmates. The students work on paper rather than online.
“We’re Like the Gardeners in the Book”: Using a Schoolwide Read to Grow a Literacy Community
Authors: Wilson Jennifer L. , Jewett Pamela
Published: March 2024

This article describes a schoolwide read that was conducted in a middle school in the Southeastern United States. We answer the question: What happens when a middle school implements a schoolwide read of a young adult novel that explores multicultural issues? Our data suggest that schools who participate in schoolwide literacy events like this one and who intentionally choose texts that address the needs of their students provide opportunities for social learning within and beyond classrooms, forge cross disciplinary connections, and foster talk that leads to critical dialogue.
Understanding the Questions: A Community-Centered Approach to the Teaching of Multicultural Literature
Authors: Meixner Emily S.
Published: March 2024

This professor of preservice teachers challenges her students to expand their understanding of “culture” beyond racially specific contexts and into the many roles people play within the communities to which they belong—local, regional, national, racial, religious, language, etc.
Rene Saldaña’s The Jumping Tree: Exploring Childhood Universals through a Hispanic Novel
Authors: Newman Beatrice Mendez
Published: March 2024

Introduced to The Jumping Tree by a participant in her summer graduate seminar, Newman and her students created activities around this young adult novel that would introduce children to a culture apart from mainstream American culture while also demonstrating that childhood holds universal experiences across cultures.
One Last Thought: We Often Miss This Point: Diversity Always Brings Vitality
Authors: Wilhelm Jeffrey D.
Published: March 2024

Wilhelm references the work of Peter Rabinowitz and Michael Smith in Authorizing Readers to make a case for creating classroom contexts in which difference is a resource for learning, democratic understanding, and work, not an obstacle to be overcome. He also reminds us that we must examine more than our personal response to literature, but use the characters’ perspectives to become more aware of lives outside of our immediate world.
The Literature Circle: The Hunt for Magic
Authors: Daniels Harvey
Published: March 2024

Daniels offers six pointers for building community in the classroom, which he posits is the single most important task of any effective teacher.
Guilt, Government, and Grades: Musings from the Shore of the Main Stream
Authors: Crutcher Chris
Published: March 2024

Crutcher, an advocate for children above all else, revisits a few of the most urgent issues facing teachers--Censorship, “No Child Left Without Life Threatening Test Anxiety,” Zero Tolerance, to name a few--and an encouraging word about addressing them. He believes teachers “have the toughest job in our culture,” and urges them to “rise up … get together” and speak with powerful voices to those who would make decisions without the expertise to make the best ones.
Computers and Writing: The Research says YES!
Authors: Patterson Nancy
Published: March 2024

Patterson reviews the research that supports the premise that students write more, write better, revise more, interact more productively, and write in more varied ways when using computer technology.
Student to Student: Never Can Say Goodbye … to Books
Authors: Ford Kim
Published: March 2024

Feedback on Student to Student over the years attests to the value of letting students share their love of reading and their favorite books with other students who are looking for that next great read. Once again, nine students infuse their enthusiasm into reviews of great stories: The Golden Compass, Chasing Redbird, Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1847; The Angel’s Command; A Week in the Woods; Running Out of Time; The Afterlife; A House Called Awful End; and Rats. Readers will be happy to know that Kim Ford will continue this valuable service under the new VM editorship.
Parallel Journeys: Teaching, Learning, and Hurricanes
Authors: Meyer Richard J.
Published: March 2024

Hurricane Katrina becomes a metaphor for the current educational landscape in Meyer’s honest look at how, in spite of good intentions, children have little shelter against the damaging power of NCLB. Like New Orleans, those who set educational policy and those who teach in individual classrooms have the power to rise from the wreckage and shape a new world, exploiting our strengths, establishing constructive dialogue, and offering all students hope.
Stories Along the Way: September
Authors: Kittle Penny
Published: March 2024

It’s the first day of a new school year and a teacher fairly vibrating with energy and anticipation greets 28 students. Who are they? What makes them unique? The first writing exercise, one they share, will begin to tell her. As they write through the year together, it will begin to tell them, too.
Professional Reading for Middle Level Educators: Re-visioning the Journey
Authors: Silvers Penny
Published: March 2024

The four books reviewed here embrace literacy as social practice: What If and Why? Literacy Invitations for Multilingual Classrooms by Katie Van Sluys; Imagination and Literacy: A Teacher’s Search for the Heart of Learning by Karen Gallas; Engaging Adolescent Learners: A Guide for Content-Area Teachers by Releah Cossett Lent; Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children’s Learning by Peter Johnston.
Next Steps in the Journey: Living Our Bottom Lines for Teaching
Authors: Wilhelm Jeffrey D.
Published: March 2024

Wilhelm proposes that “we use the concept of ‘bottom lines’ as a heuristic to think about our teaching every day: what did we do that fit our bottom lines? What would we have done differently?” He argues for renaming our subject “personal studies” so that everything would connect to our students’ need to explore and express their own identities, and would focus on “relatedness” and having “hard fun” that would make our work meet both personal and disciplinary standards.
Books for Young Adolescents: On the Road: The Journey of Adolescence
Authors: Lesesne Teri
Published: March 2024

This month’s books are about new beginnings, about journeys—external and internal—that offer hope on the road toward adulthood.
Student to Student: Postcards from the World of Fantasy
Authors: Ford Kim
Published: March 2024

If students are looking for books that will transport them into a mysterious fantasy world, one of these reviews might be just the postcard they need.
Literacy Café: Making Writing Authentic
Authors: Daniels Erika
Published: March 2024

The “Literacy Café,” a celebration of genre study and student writing, offers students (and visitors!) a positive environment in which to engage in reading and discussion of writing without self-consciousness or fear of criticism. It works because students learn to recognize writing as a learning tool and a relevant, authentic skill in the real world. Daniels walks us through the preparation, context, and execution of this sound and successful strategy.
Reaffirming the Writing Workshop for Young Adolescents
Authors: Lain Sheryl
Published: March 2024

Students who engage in the writing process learn to write. Period. And yet many teachers, including Lain when she was a beginning teacher, don’t know how to make the time for it, how to structure it, and how to evaluate it. Here, Lain offers us the help we need by focusing on the teaching tools for introducing students to this format, the mini-lessons that cover an array of writing strategies, the writing modes—transactional, poetry, fiction, creative writing—that promise variety, and the importance of conferencing and publishing student writing.
You Can’t Hide in R5: Restructuring Independent Reading to Be More Strategic and Engaging
Authors: Clausen-Grace Nicki , Kelley Michelle
Published: March 2024

Clausen-Grace and Kelley believe that when it comes to independent reading, the question is not whether to use it, but rather how we can implement it to get the most benefit for our students. Here, they discuss the supporting research, defuse potential problems, identify characteristics of effective SSR programs, and outline their own action research project, including graphic organizers
Editors’ Message: Getting Lost: Opportunities for Discovering New Directions
Authors: Henkin Roxanne , Harmon Janis , Pate Elizabeth
Published: March 2024

The editors introduce authors who have tackled the challenge of adapting and improving commercial, schoolwide, or classroom-level programs that they recognized as lacking. In the process, they discovered “new directions” that help us address our own questions for reflection and discovery.
Are Urban Middle Schools Leaving Bright Immigrant Youth Behind?
Authors: McGinnis Theresa
Published: March 2024

McGinnis draws on the idea of engaged learning as critical and illustrates how school literacy practices do not provide urban Khmer youth (and by extension, other groups whose backgrounds are linguistically or socioculturally distinct) with deep levels of engagement in literacy activities. By looking at the types of writing experiences these youth are offered and asking them directly about their perceptions of their own education, McGinnis has deduced that these children are, in fact, being left behind. She believes that learning about students’ lives outside of the classroom, at home, in their communities, and among their peers will help classroom teachers consider multiple perspectives of literacy and knowledge inside the classroom. Thus, this article aims to support educators in organizing social experiences and interactions within the classroom that are meaningful to all students.
Poem: “Hope for Struggling Readers”
Authors: Watson Patricia
Published: March 2024

Within the genre of rhyming verse, Watson offers research, questions, and answers about working with struggling readers.
Next Steps In The Journey: Personalizing Our Teaching: No Specific Human Being Left Behind
Authors: Wilhelm Jeffrey D.
Published: March 2024

Recognizing the challenge of individualizing instruction, Wilhelm reminds us of some specific areas teachers must focus on: developing apprenticeship and inquiry settings in which student difference is a resource; connecting students to their reading and writing; honoring and using students’ first languages; situating instruction in real or simulated contexts where learning can be applied; using a variety of assessment practices. “This is our privilege and our purpose as teachers, and it is the only path to transformative teaching and learning.”
Books For Young Adolescents: Leaving No Reader Behind: Some Tips for Reluctant Readers
Authors: Lesesne Teri
Published: March 2024

Lesesne examines some of the qualities that attract all readers—including reluctant ones—and gives examples: Title (After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away by Joyce Carol Oates; The Christopher Killer by Alane Ferguson); Cover (Notes from the Midnight Driver by Jordan Sonneblick; Pick Me Up: Stuff You Need to Know by Jeremy Leslie and David Roberts); Opening Paragraph (The Legend of Bass Reeves by Gary Paulsen; The Night My Sister Went Missing by Carol Plum-Ucci).
Technology Toolkit: How Can We Already Be Left Behind When Nobody Told Us Where We Were Going
Authors: Hayes Sandy
Published: March 2024

A seldom-publicized section of NCLB calls for “every student [to be] technologically literate by the time the student finishes the eighth grade, regardless of the student’s race, ethnicity, gender, family income, geographic location, or disability.” Yet standards, when they even exist, fail to define “technologically literate,” and those definitions that do exist are constantly being revised. Hayes offers no answers for this conundrum, but does give notice of a pending area on NCTE’s website where teachers will be invited to share their own solutions.
Teaching How to Think about Words
Authors: Fisher Peter , Blachowicz Camille
Published: March 2024

The authors address the need to teach students to become more word aware by focusing on metasemantic awareness, alongside morphological and syntactic awareness, as a basis for developing metacognition about words. They extend the concept of a definition map to other forms of vocabulary learning and provide several helpful graphic organizers.
Mediating the Matthew Effect in Reading: Fostering Word Consciousness
Authors: Cowan Kay , Albers Peggy
Published: March 2024

The authors, one a teacher–researcher and the other a literacy researcher, take on the daunting task of vocabulary instruction in a school with a socioeconomically diverse population. They have designed a literacy program that emphasizes vocabulary development and uses personal choice (for motivation) and scaffolded literacy strategies (for support) to instill a keen awareness of, and lasting interest in, words.
Professional Reading for Middle Level Educators Reading the Signs: Vocabulary and More
Authors: Silvers Penny
Published: March 2024

Reviewed are: Naked Reading: Uncovering What Tweens Need to Become Lifelong Readers by Teri Lesesne; The Book Club Companion: Fostering Strategic Readers in the Secondary Classroom by Cindy O’Donnell-Allen; Books and Beyond: New Ways to Reach Readers by Michael Opitz and Michael Ford; Lenses on Literacy Coaching: Conceptualizations, Functions, and Outcomes (by Cathy Toll)
Stories along the Way: Heather
Authors: Kittle Penny
Published: March 2024

In a poignant story, Kittle remembers a “forgotten” student, and shares her regrets about not holding onto her tightly enough. A more recent student, however, reaps the benefits of those hard lessons, and hangs on to finish school.
Technology Toolkit: The MySpace Culture
Authors: Hayes Sandy
Published: March 2024

Hayes reviews the audience and content of some major online social communities and suggests two (Whyville and Ning) that can be used to guide students in navigating the Internet safely.
Professional Reading for Middle Level Educators: Bringing the World into the Classroom
Authors: Silvers Penny
Published: March 2024

Reviewed are: Writing to Live: How to Teach Writing for Today’s World by Lorraine Wilson; Stirring Up Justice: Writing and Reading to Change the World by Jessica Singer; Reading Doesn’t Matter Anymore: Shattering the Myths of Literacy by David Booth; Family Literacy Experiences: Creating Reading and Writing Opportunities That Support Classroom Learning by Jennifer Rowsell.
Books for Young Adolescents: Connecting with Books Those in the Middle Will Love
Authors: Bird Shawn , Giles Vickey M.
Published: March 2024

YA Lit is all about making connections: teacher to students, students to real life experience. Reviewed are: Swollen by Melissa Lion; Homeboyz by Allen Lawrence Sitomer; Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer; Tiger by Jeff Sonte; Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins.
No Middle Ground: Taking a Stand at the Crossroads
Authors: Hynds Susan
Published: March 2024

Declaring that “public education is at a crossroads where the future of our world could not be more precariously poised,” the author addresses the challenges facing middle school teachers, such as the narrowing of curriculum due to high-stakes assessments. She argues that students should not leave middle school without the “interpretive skills” developed through the arts, opportunities to interpret literature from a personal stance, and “a hunger for routing out what’s beneath and beyond the printed work, the rap lyric, the image, or the electronic text.”