Jeff Sommers

28 articles
  1. Fiftieth Anniversary Editors’ Symposium: Strengthening Institutions for the Next Quarter Century
    Abstract

    In this symposium, five editors ofTeaching English in the Two-Year College(TETYC) discuss the past, present, and future of the journal and the profession.

    doi:10.58680/tetyc202332584
  2. Editorial Perspectives on Teaching English in the Two-Year College: The Shaping of a Profession
    doi:10.58680/ce201930083
  3. Feature: Mark Reynolds Best Article of the Year Award Winners Reflect on TETYC
    Abstract

    This essay is a symposium of sorts that collects observations and comments from Mark Reynolds Best Article of the Year Award Winners and offers insights into how successful authors view TETYC as a professional journal.

    doi:10.58680/tetyc201829534
  4. Feature: The Instructional Note and the Professionalization of Two-Year College English Teaching
    Abstract

    TETYC’s Instructional Note genre has evolved and begun to contribute to an ongoing scholarly conversation by contributing new knowledge, not merely passing along teaching lore.

    doi:10.58680/tetyc201729310
  5. Editorial: Teaching, Teaching, Teaching in the Two-Year College
    Abstract

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    doi:10.58680/tetyc201628553
  6. Editorial: A Lesson from Eeyore
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    doi:10.58680/tetyc201527628
  7. Editorial: New Voices and … Familiar Voices
    doi:10.58680/tetyc201527453
  8. Editorial: The Complexities of “College Success”
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    doi:10.58680/tetyc201527227
  9. Editorial: A Horse Is a Horse, of Course?
    doi:10.58680/tetyc201526938
  10. Editorial: Call for Papers for Special Issue
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    doi:10.58680/tetyc201426085
  11. Editorial: Understanding Backwards, Looking Forwards
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    doi:10.58680/tetyc201424602
  12. Editorial: Acronyms Repurposed
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    doi:10.58680/tetyc201324512
  13. Editorial: The Long View
    doi:10.58680/tetyc201323599
  14. Editorial: The Challenge That Won’t Go Away
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    doi:10.58680/tetyc201323060
  15. Editorial: On Genuine Dialogue.
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    doi:10.58680/tetyc201219715
  16. Editorial: Readers Write … Revisited
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    doi:10.58680/tetyc201218763
  17. Self-Designed Points: Turning Responsibility for Learning Over to Students
    Abstract

    The use of Self-Designed Points as part of a point-by-point grading system can encourage students to exercise more initiative about their own learning in a first-year composition course.

    doi:10.58680/tetyc201115239
  18. Editorial: It Takes a Village
    doi:10.58680/tetyc20066056
  19. Editorial: Opening Pages, Opening Doors
    doi:10.58680/tetyc20066031
  20. Illustrating the Reading Process: The In-Class Read-Aloud Protocol
    Abstract

    The author finds that letting students see his own struggles with reading encourages them to feel greater confidence and eases the way for productive interventions in the process.

    doi:10.58680/tetyc20054596
  21. Audiotaped Response and the Two-Year-Campus Writing Classroom: The Two-Sided Desk, the “Guy with the Ax,” and the Chirping Birds
    Abstract

    This article makes an argument that audiotaped response to student writing is particularly useful in teaching two-year-campus students. The argument is grounded in a historical overview of response literature in TETYC, student surveys, and a case study of one undergraduate student.

    doi:10.58680/tetyc20032983
  22. Suburban Dream
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    doi:10.58680/tetyc20022013
  23. Repositioning Revision: A Rhetorical Approach to Grading
    Abstract

    Notes that finding a way to integrate grading and responding in a manner that promotes learning through revision is one major challenge for composition instructors. Argues that instructors must find a way to shape their classrooms shifting the emphasis from “getting it right the first time,” to learning to see writing as an activity that evolves and improves through revision.

    doi:10.58680/tetyc20001938
  24. Reviews
    Abstract

    Reviews five books: Grading in the Post-Process Classroom: From Theory to Practice, ed. by Libby Allison, Lizbeth Bryant, and Maureen Hourigan; Alternatives to Grading Student Writing, ed. by Stephen Tchudi; The Theory and Practice of Grading Writing: Problems and Possibilities, ed. by Frances Zak and Christopher C. Weaver; Teaching ESL Composition: Purpose, Process, and Practice, by Dana Ferris and John S. Hedgcock; “M” Word, by Jane Isenberg.

    doi:10.58680/tetyc19991884
  25. Professing at the Fault Lines: Composition at Open Admissions Institutions
    Abstract

    Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson, Jeff Sommers, Professing at the Fault Lines: Composition at Open Admissions Institutions, College Composition and Communication, Vol. 50, No. 3, A Usable Past: CCC at 50: Part 1 (Feb., 1999), pp. 438-462

    doi:10.2307/358860
  26. Professing at the Fault LInes: Composition at Open Admissions Institutions
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    doi:10.58680/ccc19991339
  27. Palimpsest: The Book of Samuel
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    doi:10.58680/tetyc19981824
  28. Portfolios in Literature Courses: A Case Study
    Abstract

    Asks if there is a place for portfolio assessment in the literature classroom. Finds that portfolios help students use writing to engage literary texts in multiple and productive ways, and offer opportunities to examine effects of the reading process over the course of the writing pieces. Argues for a particular kind of portfolio focusing on a single literary work.

    doi:10.58680/tetyc19973828