Teaching in the Pop Culture Zone Using Popular Culture in the Composition Classroom

by Smith, Allison D.; Smith, Trixie G.; Bobbitt, Rebecca

• ISBN13: 9781428231016
• ISBN10: 1428231013
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-09
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

This professional development guide offers insights and strategies about using pop culture in the first year writing classroom. The edited volume includes essays by instructors who share details of their most effective class ideas and writing assignments. It is a resource for new teachers and for those interested in incorporating popular culture into their writing courses.

Table of Contents

Preface

Assigning the Obituary: Using Figures from Popular Culture to Help Students Argue from Research

Beyond the Boob Tube: Using Television Fandom to Create Community

Bringing Social Networking Sites into the Writing Classroom Using MySpace and Facebook

Composition Fellows: The Pop-culturation of J.R.R. Tolkein's The Fellowship of the Ring

Conflict in the Borderlands: Using Multiculturalism in the Writing Classroom to Help Students Articulate Cultural Identity

Evaluation, Plus: Using the Review Assignment to Move Students from Passive to Active Learners

Fastest Pen in the West: Using Quickmuse in the Composition Classroom

Graphic Novels in the Composition Course: Are They Really Novels? Clifton Kaiser

The Graphic Novel: Writing as Close Focus

Inspired Artists and Office Drones: Taking Literacy Narratives to the Movies

Pop Culture and Pedagogy: Using Urban Legends in the Composition Classroom

A Sound Education: Popular Music in the College Composition Classroom

Subvert this Image: Negotiating Multiple Literacies & Deconstructing Consumerism through Photoshop

Video Didn't Kill the Radio Star+ Laurel Taylor

Virtual Spaces: Building Communities in the Composition Classroom

Writing Students Should Write about Advertisements

Contributors

For Further Reading

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