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Building Bridges Conference: Planning Committee
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Building Bridges is committed to serving as a major vehicle of professional development among English, ESL, and Reading faculty. Past participants include faculty from Antelope Valley, Bakersfield College, CSU Bakersfield, Cerro Coso, College of the Canyons, College of the Sequoias, Porterville College, Taft College, the Intensive English Language Center at CSUB, and Kern High School District. Sheena Bhogal, BC. Jeannie Parent, BC. College of the Canyons. Intensive English Language Center. National Counc...
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Building Bridges Conference: Issues
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Building Bridges is committed to serving as a major vehicle of professional development among English, ESL, and Reading faculty. Past participants include faculty from Antelope Valley, Bakersfield College, CSU Bakersfield, Cerro Coso, College of the Canyons, College of the Sequoias, Porterville College, Taft College, the Intensive English Language Center at CSUB, and Kern High School District. CCRC Policy Brief: "Early Assessments and Transition Curricula: What States Can Do". Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Building Bridges Conference: January 2011
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Building Bridges is committed to serving as a major vehicle of professional development among English, ESL, and Reading faculty. Past participants include faculty from Antelope Valley, Bakersfield College, CSU Bakersfield, Cerro Coso, College of the Canyons, College of the Sequoias, Porterville College, Taft College, the Intensive English Language Center at CSUB, and Kern High School District. Pictures by Gary Graupman of Taft College. 2011 BBC Presentations In Brief. Gary Enns, BBC Web Editor. Palette-a...
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Composition Conversations: Try It Out Vs. Get It Right
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A blog for teachers of writing at CSU Los Angeles and dedicated to conversations about composition and rhetoric. Sunday, May 9, 2010. Try It Out Vs. Get It Right. Printer friendly version: http:/ www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/comp/TryItOut.pdf. Believe it or not, we get mail, and last week’s Comp Quickread brought more than the usual one or two notes from China. One reader offered a very important clarification that is worth quoting in full:. Here are a few classroom practices to consider:. 8212;In...
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Composition Conversations: February 2010
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A blog for teachers of writing at CSU Los Angeles and dedicated to conversations about composition and rhetoric. Sunday, February 28, 2010. Printer friendly version: http:/ www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/comp/ReadingAndCuriosity.pdf. To observe that curiosity is central to reading is not unlike observing that breathing is necessary to life. But what is curiosity? And if it is so important to reading, how can we as teachers foster it? From John Stuart Mill. Links to this post. What did they find unsa...
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Composition Conversations: Purpose, Audience, Genre
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A blog for teachers of writing at CSU Los Angeles and dedicated to conversations about composition and rhetoric. Saturday, November 14, 2009. Purpose, Audience, Genre. Printer friendly version: http:/ www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/comp/PurposeAudienceGenre.pdf. To whom am I appealing and what are their needs? What expectations of the audience must I satisfy or risk going unheard? These questions focus the writer’s attention on purpose, audience, and genre. What do they know about the topic? To spea...
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Composition Conversations: January 2010
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A blog for teachers of writing at CSU Los Angeles and dedicated to conversations about composition and rhetoric. Sunday, January 24, 2010. The Audience in the Text. Printer friendly version: http:/ www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/comp/Audience.pdf. Who are my readers? Or do I think of my readers as Blair or Campbell might have imagined them—intelligent, logical, rational, a bit skeptical but open to persuasion through effective argumentation? In short, like all rhetoric it comes down to choices. ...
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Composition Conversations: March 2010
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A blog for teachers of writing at CSU Los Angeles and dedicated to conversations about composition and rhetoric. Sunday, March 28, 2010. Reading Student Writing Rhetorically. Printer friendly version: http:/ www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/comp/ReadingRhetorically.pdf. As any experienced instructor knows, this survey data is not contradictory. When most instructors report not having time to assign writing, they are probably referring to not having time to respond to student writing. Instructors can c...
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Composition Conversations: October 2009
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A blog for teachers of writing at CSU Los Angeles and dedicated to conversations about composition and rhetoric. Sunday, October 25, 2009. Printer friendly version: http:/ www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/comp/CC-Conferencing.pdf. Finally, participants discussed the importance of having a focused conference. All agreed that conferences are most successful when focused on a few key issues and when students set the agenda. Some instructors have students write down their goal(s) for a conference,...The n...
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Composition Conversations: Low and High Stakes Writing
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A blog for teachers of writing at CSU Los Angeles and dedicated to conversations about composition and rhetoric. Sunday, April 4, 2010. Low and High Stakes Writing. Printer friendly version: http:/ www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/comp/LowHighStakes.pdf. Demonstrate what students have learned. Follow the conventions of formal academic prose (as well as discipline specific conventions). Be relatively error free (when written outside of class). Impromptu (in-class) or take-home. Never corrected or graded.