New Perspectives: TA Preparation for Critical Literacy in First-Year Composition
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The Department of English seeks to provide all university students with the skills of effective communication and critical thinking, as well as imparting knowledge of literature, creative writing, linguistics, speech and technical communication to students within and outside of the department.
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The Department of English and Speech was formed in 1939 from the merger of the Department of English and the Department of Public Speaking. In 1971 its name changed to the Department of English.
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1939-present
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- Department of English and Speech (1939-1971)
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- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (parent college)
- Department of English (predecessor, 1898-1939)
- Department of Public Speaking (predecessor, 1898-1939)
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A new teaching assistant in our department recently showed me an outline for a proposed research paper from one of her first-year composition students: "I thought he was going to investigate racial profiling in the aftermath of Sept. 11th," the dismayed instructor said to me. "But this disturbs me. He is going to argue in favor of it. I am struggling with what to do. Do I let him write this paper?"
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This article is published as Duffelmeyer, Barb Blakely. “New Perspectives: TA Preparation for Critical Literacy in First-Year Composition.” Composition Forum: A Journal of Pedagogical Theory in Rhetoric and Composition 13.1-2 (released September 2003, but dated 2002): 67-80. Posted with permission.