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Laura Barbas Rhoden deposited Connecting Curriculum to Context: Our Story of Two Liberal Arts College Spanish Programs Engaged in a Changing South in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe purpose of this article is to refl ect upon the process by which two professors in Spanish programs at small liberal arts colleges in the southeastern United States developed courses with civic engagement components that enabled our students to engage with the local Hispanic community in meaningful ways. From the outset, we focused on what we…[Read more]
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Rebecca Day Babcock deposited Live from MLA-Writing about Writing in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 10 years agoBlog on writing about writing sessions from MLA 2016
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Miles McCrimmon deposited "A New Species of College Student: The 'First-Year' with Advanced Standing" in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoSeveral significant policy statements have articulated threshold concepts in FYC in the last decade, the most influential being the Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing, an amalgam of the WPA Outcomes Statement and “habits of mind” research. Two collections of essays have also explicitly asked, What Is ‘College-Level’ Writing? Other…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue started the topic Planning for MLA17 in Philadelphia in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoCommunity College faculty,
The Community College Forum’s Executive Committee will be meeting at MLA16 in Austin on January 8th to plan ahead for the next MLA Convention in Philadelphia. We invite you all to help us brainstorm ideas for sessions for 2017: post ideas below or email Stacey Donohue or Michael Burke.
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Stacey Lee Donohue started the topic Sessions of Interest to Community College faculty at MLA16 in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoDemocratic Vistas: Reading and Writing in the Community College Classroom
Thursday, 7 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 9A, ACC
Threshold Concepts in First-Year Composition (FYC) at the Community College
Friday, 8 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 10B, ACC
Career Opportunities in Community Colleges
Saturday, 9 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 202, JW Ma…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Productive Disappointment: The Modern University and Authority in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThe “modern university” is the social institution that has grown beyond the confines of brick and mortar to become a certifying body granting approval to those subjects who pass through its machinery, typically operating under the regulation and supervision of a government-sanctioned system of formalized accreditation. The modern university is ine…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Cocoons of Desire and Thought: Metaphor as Metafunction in the group
LSL General Linguistics on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis conference paper was an invited plenary lecture for the 11th annual meeting of ICEG in January 2014. It builds upon numerous articles, essays and books the author has published on the grammar, epistemology and socio-historical aspects of metaphor and metaphorical discourse. This paper provides a model for understanding metaphor as a needed…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited The Dead Albatross: "New Criticism" as a Humanist Fallacy in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis essay was one of the first to challenge the over-stress on close reading as the key to literary appreciation, by advocating a greater stress on literature’s broader context and its achievement in social, political, and religious terms.
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Roberto Rey Agudo started the topic CFP NEMLA 2016 Digital Humanities in the Modern Language Curriculum in the discussion
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoThis session seeks to expand scholarly dialogues about digital humanities beyond so-called content courses to include all levels of the language curriculum. In particular, it will explore the following questions: How can the pedagogical affordances provided by digital humanities be used in language courses? Can digital humanities applications…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue deposited Shared Governance at Community Colleges: Challenges and Successes in the group
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoAddresses the question: is there shared governance at community colleges and if so, how’s it going?
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Nicky Agate started the topic Two CC articles added to CORE in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoStacey Lee Donohue has uploaded two documents that might be of interest to this group to the new repository, CORE. You can access them by clicking on the “CORE” tab at the top of the screen, the “Deposits” tab to the right of this group’s page, or via the links below.
“What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: Becoming a Community College…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue deposited What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been: Becoming a Community College Professor in the group
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoPersonal narrative on the journal from PhD program to community college professor.
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Stacey Lee Donohue deposited Community College Faculty and the MLA in the group
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoArgument for community college faculty engagement with the MLA.
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Cornelius Collins replied to the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Language and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThis call is for the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX.
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Cornelius Collins started the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Language and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoSeeking papers that explore the distinct approaches, perspectives, and discourses of women writers as intellectuals writing for modern reading publics. Possible subjects include Woolf, Lessing, Beauvoir, Arendt, McCarthy, Hansberry, Sontag, Morrison, Atwood, Francine Prose, Zadie Smith, Melissa Harris-Perry, and others. 300-word abstracts and…[Read more]
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Tara Williams started the topic Rethinking the "L" in MLA in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThe MLA Forum on Language Change invites proposals for a panel on “Rethinking the ‘L’ in MLA.” Papers might address questions like: What counts as a modern language? What value do linguistic issues and less-commonly taught languages have in the MLA? How can they inform literary studies?
Please send 300-word abstracts to Tara Williams ([Read more]
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Tara Williams started the topic Language Change, Shifting Borders, and Identity Construction in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThe Forum on Language Change is accepting proposals on “Language Change, Shifting Borders, and Identity Construction” for the 2016 MLA in Austin. We seek papers that examine how language change relates to linguistic identity construction and crossing borderlands (geographical, political, ethnic, social, perceptual, historical, religious). Papers t…[Read more]
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