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A Derridean Approach to Critical Reading: A MONSTER! by Talitha May, Colorado State University

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Hearing the term “critical reading” provokes my composition students to lemon-pucker grimace and nervously shift in their seats as if a monster had suddenly appeared. They often gasp at the prospects of the composition course’s planned future critical reading unit. They identify with theorist Jacques Derrida’s notion that “the future is necessarily monstrous: the figure […]

Clashing Technologies: The legacy of 19th Century Writing Instruction Meets the 21st Century Writing Classroom by Mike Palmquist, Colorado State University

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I’ve taken the liberty of quoting my own work to start this talk, not because I’m enamored with my own prose, but because it sets up a central concern that my colleagues and I have about the way writing is taught in colleges and universities. Writing, as we all know, is something we do – an activity, a process. In fact most of us, if asked, would say that we teach writing using a “process approach.”