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A Son of the Middle Border
"A Son of the Middle Border" is a coming-of-age story of a farm boy. In this captivating autobiography of Pulitzer Prize–winner Hamlin Garland, he described his family background and childhood as the son of pioneer farmers. He narrates his journey from a rural childhood to studying literature and the sciences in Boston and his reclaimed sense of identity as a writer of the Midwest's beautiful yet challenging land.
Diverse Approaches to Teaching, Learning, and Writing Across the Curriculum
"Diverse Approaches to Teaching, Learning, and Writing Across the Curriculum: IWAC at 25 celebrates a unique moment in the evolution of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC), highlighting how both connection and diversity--among ideas, strategies, traditions, and values--have contributed to the resilience of the movement over time. Developed from presentations at the 2018 International WAC (IWAC) Conference in Auburn, Alabama, chapters represent a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches under the umbrella of WAC--from translingualism to anti-racism and emotional labor to learning analytics. Contributors offer concrete take-aways for faculty developers, writing consultants, program administrators, and classroom teachers across disciplines"--
The Meaningful Writing Project
In the face of the continuing discourse of crisis in US education, The Meaningful Writing Project offers readers an affirming story of writing in higher education that shares students’ experiences in their own voices. In presenting the results of a three-year study consisting of surveys and interviews of university seniors and their faculty across three diverse institutions, authors Michele Eodice, Anne Ellen Geller, and Neal Lerner consider students’ perceptions of their meaningful writing experiences, the qualities of those experiences, and instructors’ perspectives on assignment design and delivery. This study confirms that meaningful assignments offer students opportunities to enga...
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The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch
This book is a study of the fourth-century sophist Libanius, a major intellectual figure who ran one of the most prestigious schools of rhetoric in the later Roman Empire. He was a tenacious adherent of pagan religion and a friend of the emperor Julian, but also taught leaders of the early Christian church like St. John Chrysostom and St. Basil the Great. Raffaella Cribiore examines Libanius's training and personality, showing him to be a vibrant educator, though somewhat gloomy and anxious by nature. She traces how he cultivated a wide network of friends and former pupils and courted powerful officials to recruit top students. Cribiore describes his school in Antioch--how students applied, ...
