Acknowledging that many composition courses are taught by graduate students,In Our Own Voice offers a selection of articles about teaching first year writing by graduate students. By reading a variety of perspectives about the realities and experiences of teaching writing, graduate students become better prepared for the composition classroom. The collection attempts to strike a balance between the theoretical and practical issues composition teachers face, and functions as a resource for pedagogical theories and practical ideas while at the same time problematizing traditional and currently held beliefs and definitions. The essays are arranged according to topic and attempt to speak to each other, while acknowledging that there is no right or wrong method when it comes to teaching. For anyone interested in the teaching of writing.

Introduction

ix

Tina Good

Leanne Warshauer

Acknowledgments

xiii

Graduate Students Teach Writing

1

(28)

Uneasy Transitions: The Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Composition Program

2

(8)

Brian K. Bly

Voicing Experience

10

(9)

Patrick J. Bettencourt

``Only Connect...'': Graduate Instructors Choosing the Margin

19

(10)

Stacia Dunn Neeley

Politicizing the Composition Classroom

29

(28)

Participatory Pedagogy

30

(8)

Matt Herman

Challenging Ideas, Stories, and Rhetorics: Film and Politics in a Working-Class Basic Writing Classroom

38

(8)

William DeGenaro

Lessons from ``The Writing of AIDS'': Teaching Writing and Teaching AIDS in a College Composition Class

46

(11)

Tera L. Martin

Creating a Safe Place

57

(28)

Starting the Conversation: The Importance of a Rhetoric of Assent When Teaching Argument

58

(8)

David Thomas Sumner

Teaching That Language Matters

66

(10)

Mary R. Boland

Speaking the Language: Written Dialogue in the Composition Classroom

76

(9)

Tobi Jacobi

What About Authority?

85

(44)

Collaboration as a Process: Reinforcing the Workshop

86

(9)

Leanne B. Warshauer

Negotiating the Negotiated Curriculum

95

(10)

Carole Deletiner

Relinquishing Authority: Tapping into Students' Cognitive Skills through Familiar Content and Virtual Worlds

105

(14)

Barbara Geiger

Kristian Rickard

A Question of Authority: Dealing with Disruptive Students

119

(10)

Jennifer Meta Robinson

Asserting Non-Native Authority

129

(24)

Against the Paradigm of the Native Writer: Non-Native Strategies in the Teaching of Writing

130

(9)

Carmen Faymonville

The Elusive Asian-American Self: Authority in the Intercultural Classroom

139

(7)

Celestine Woo

Another Multicultural Classroom: Non-Native Teachers of Native Students

146

(7)

Dan Ding

In Their Own Voice

153

(24)

Taking It Personally: Academic Discourse and Writing Personal Experience

154

(7)

Alison Pruitt

Feminine Reasoning and the First-Year Composition Class

161

(9)

Tina Good

Leanne Warshauer

Polyvocal Freewriting: Inviting a Multivalued Orientation through Spontaneous Writing

170

(7)

Daniel J. Weinstein

From Research to the Classroom

177

(22)

Falling into a Motivational Style of Teaching

178

(7)

Laurie L. Bower

Reconsidering the Textbook in the First-Year Composition Class

185

(6)

Andrew R. Cline

More Fun with Electroshock Therapy: Keeping Students Alive in English 101

191

(8)

Scott Diesenhaus

Jason Leary

Responding to Student Papers

199

(32)

Gender Differences in Grading Styles and TA Response to Student Papers

200

(12)

Elizabeth Birmingham

Student-Teacher Conferencing and the Graduate Instructor: Searching for Balance and Style in Conferencing Pedagogy

212

(9)

Robert E. Cummings

Individual Student Conferences and Community Workshops: Is There a Conflict?

221

(10)

Tina LaVonne Good

Rethinking Mechanics

231

(32)

Beyond Grammar: Linguistics in the Composition Classroom

232

(10)

Sonja Launspach

Martha Wetterhall Thomas

Students on the Verge of a Quotation Breakdown: Reading and Teaching Structures of Articulation

242

(9)

Juli Parrish

To Grammar, or Not to Grammar?: The Question and an Answer

251

(12)

Sean McDowell

Grading

263

(12)

Easing the Pain of Grading: Holistic Grading and the Use of Portfolios in Writing Instruction

264

(11)

J. K. Dennis

Jayme Long

Eva Roa White

The Scarlet Letters: Toward a More Reflective Method of Grading Process Writing

275

Bill Wandless

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