ArticleField.comInternet's Fastest Growing Free Content Article DirectoryIn a recent article that appeared in the New York Times, Richard Sterling, former director of the National Writing Project, suggests that “this is not a worrying issue at all” (qtd. in Lewin, par. 3). He asserts that the text speak that is increasingly entering students’ academic writing need not be seen as problematic. This […]
In a recent article that appeared in the New York Times, Richard Sterling, former director of the National Writing Project, suggests that “this is not a worrying issue at all” (qtd. in Lewin, par. 3). He asserts that the text speak that is increasingly entering students’ academic writing need not be seen as problematic. This […]
I urge educators to promote authentic writing in the English classroom through the viewing and teaching of text as dialogic, and through this lens, it becomes possible to understand the texts that students produce in Thomas Sabo Bracelets class as responses to other texts. A dialogic understanding of text also makes it possible for educators […]
Good literature, no matter how great the demand for suspension of disbelief, is an expression of truth. Adults may look to fiction as an escape from reality, but students come to English class to embrace it and find a place to express their own truth. I couldn’t keep the “real world” out of the classroom […]
In its first decade, CNN established the importance of the function it served. CNN was the only network on “live” on January 28, 1986, when the space shuttle Challenger exploded. For hours in 1987, audiences followed CNN’s coverage of efforts to rescue Baby Jessica, the young Texas girl who had fallen into a well. That […]
