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In Support of a Contemporary Reading Pedagogy and Discipline

November 13, 2018 Veronica Avila Leave a comment

In Elizabeth Kalbfleisch’s article, “Imitatio Reconsidered: Notes toward a Reading Pedagogy for the Writing Classroom”, she makes the claim that…

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Reflections on the Annotations Comrade’s Assignment

November 7, 2018 Veronica Avila Leave a comment

When developing my annotation assignment, I was initially concerned about the clarity of the information I wrote. I was equally…

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T.S.Eliot The Waste Land

November 1, 2018 Veronica Avila Leave a comment

T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is a challenging and complex reading. Unlike traditional poems that use one voice, Eliot’s poem…

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Editing: An Access to Close Reading

October 23, 2018 Veronica Avila Leave a comment

As I began to read Erick Keleman’s “Critical Editing and Close Reading in the Undergraduate Classroom,” I was intrigued with…

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Reading as Privilege

October 16, 2018 Veronica Avila Leave a comment

  I grew up in a working class suburb east of Los Angeles in a two-bedroom apartment complex. It was…

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Talking To Your Text: How a Group of Students Used Annotations to Improve Their Writing Skills

October 9, 2018 Veronica Avila Leave a comment

Tara Lockhart’s and Mary Soliday’s article, “The Critical Place of Reading in Writing Transfer (and Beyond): A Report of Student…

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So How Exactly Does One Read In College?

October 3, 2018 Veronica Avila Leave a comment

Karen Manarin, English Professor at Mount Royal Univeristy in Canada, focuses on teaching students how to read a college text.…

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Annotation Comrades: Final

September 27, 2018 Veronica Avila 2 Comments

Using Hypothesis.com to Talk to the Text “The jottings we make in the books we own may well be among…

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Why College Reading Matters

September 25, 2018 Veronica Avila Leave a comment

When people ask me what I do for a living they always seem perplexed when I tell them I teach…

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Getting Students to Read the Assigned Material

September 18, 2018 Veronica Avila Leave a comment

  Getting my students to do the reading is a perpetual challenge, and I know I am not alone. Educators…

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