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ERWC Leadership Symposium

Posted on June 26, 2009 by guitarsophist

On Tuesday I went to a “Leadership Symposium” for the Expository Reading and Writing Course (ERWC) at the L.A. Crowne Plaza hotel near LAX.  I chaired the California State University task force that developed this course, so I was delighted … Continue reading →

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What are we teaching when we teach literature?

Posted on February 20, 2009 by guitarsophist

This week my seminar has been reading Louise Rosenblatt’s The Reader, The Text, The Poem.  After several weeks of analyzing everyday texts, the literature students in the course were happy to finally get to what they saw at the beginning … Continue reading →

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The Reading Conundrum

Posted on January 31, 2009 by guitarsophist

The book for last week’s seminar meeting was Reading Rhetorically by John Bean, Virginia Chappell, and Alice Gillam.  As I noted in another post, this is designed as a freshman text, but I tend to use it as a teacher … Continue reading →

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