Sophistic ethics in the technical writing classroom: Teaching nomos,deliberation, and action

Drawing on arguments by Carolyn Miller, Steven Katz, and others, this essay claims that teaching ethics is particularly important to technical writing. Next, the essay outlines a classical, sophistic approach to ethics based on the theories and pedagogies of Protagoras, Gorgias, and Isocrates. This sophistic approach emphasizes the Greek concept of nomos, internal and external deliberation, and responsible action or articulation. The final section of the essay discusses possible problems and pedagogical applications of sophistic ethics in the contemporary technical writing classroom.     

应用文写作高效课堂之我见

应用文写作课,主要是培养学生借助应有写作解决实际问题的能力。以高效课堂评价为切入点,着重探讨了应用文写作高效课堂应注意的几个问题,并在此基础上提出了自己的一些见解,以期对应用文写作教学质量的提高提供参考。     

英语专业学生的翻转课堂行动研究——以写作课为例

翻转课堂也即颠倒课堂,通过把老师全程讲课转化为课前学生看视频自学再来课堂上讨论学习的方式,实现了对传统教学模式的革新。整个教学设计仍有不足之处,希望在后面的教学教研中不断改进,以期为高校英语教学改革提供借鉴。     

Writing like writers in the classroom: free writing and formal constraint

This paper considers how ‘free writing’, derived from the automatic writing of the surrealists, can be used with students in writing poetry in order to emulate the successful practice of established writers. The paper considers how form can be taught, specifically line breaks and stanza breaks, both in relation to free writing and in relation to drafting, and argues that drafting should be considered an extension of the creative act of writing rather than as something which is done afterwards ‘to’ preexisting work.     

应用文“大写作”教育思想下的课堂组织艺术

作者在应用文写作教育中实施大写作教育思想,实施主体性教学,使课堂学习过程艺术化,培养学生拥有优质的自我形象认识,成为积极地社会人。对大写作教育思想下课堂教学中如何来落实素质教育,并使它成为一种可操作性的教学活动,进行较为深入地探讨,并做研究总结,是十分必要的。     

Capturing classroom context: The observation system as lens for assessment

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, 1988, New Orleans.     

课堂生态环境中师生互动对英语写作的积极作用

教育生态学是利用生态学的方法和原则来研究教育的一门边缘学科。从生态学的观点来讲,课堂也是一个生态环境,在课堂这个生态环境中,它能否平衡发展,关系着教学效果的好坏。用生态学原理来分析和研究教育学的问题是一种新的思维方式。     

把握关键词进行有效的英语阅读课课堂提问

提问是教师在英语阅读教学中常用的方法之一,而提问的数量与质量直接影响英语阅读课的教学效果。本文探讨了在英语阅读教学中如何把握关键词,从导入新课,理清细节,重难点突破,挖掘教材四个方面开展有效的课堂提问,从而提高英语阅读课的教学质量。     

Making disability visible: How disability studies might transform the medical and science writing classroom

This article describes how disability studies can be used in a medical and science writing class to critically examine the assumptions of scientific discourse. An emerging, interdisciplinary field, disability studies draws on feminist, postmodern, and post‐colonial theory and extends their critiques to the medicalization of disability. Deconstructing the medical model of disability helps students understand how science is socially constructed. After conceptualizing disability studies, this essay discusses sample disability‐related classroom activities, readings, and writing assignments.     

The exigencies of student participation in university governance: Lip services and bottlenecks

This study was conducted to explore the level, type and quality of student participation in the governance milieu of twenty public universities in Ethiopia based on secondary data availed at a national level. The findings reveal that despite their demands and aspirations, students' participation in university governance is still at its lowest ebb across most of Ethiopian public universities both in terms of their representation at the available hierarchical structures and the quality of participation in matters of substantial importance to the student body. Given the multitude of advantages the institutions and students can garner from meaningful student participation, it is argued that changes need to be made in terms of improved representation, type and quality of student participation.     

其实,学生有话要说--对作文教学的一点反思

一些现象司空见惯 :学生们聚在一起时总有说不完的话 ,谁开了一个话题 ,大家七嘴八舌很快就能形成谈论高潮 ;也有时 ,老师不经意地说一件事 ,大家反响热烈 ,智慧火花迸发。可在写命题作文时 ,却常常是抓耳挠腮 ,搜肠刮肚 ,痛苦之状让人怜悯之情顿生。下面两次作文活动 ,学生写作热情之高给我留下了较深刻的印象 :一是高一下学期写《一个学期调班一次 ,利大于弊还是弊大于利》 ,二是去年国际大专辩论赛后 ,让学生写决赛的辩题《美是客观的还是主观的》。出于一些考虑 ,我校高中部一直都将学生按程度编班 ,有的学年甚至一学期调班一次 ,学生反…     

Researching class in the classroom: addressing the social class attainment gap in Initial Teacher Education

The social class attainment gap in education is now attracting an increased level of concern. Despite the efforts of the British New Labour government to address the continuing underachievement of working class pupils in England, there has been little progress. This paper reports on one aspect of a wider research study carried out in an Initial Teacher Education department in which this persistent educational problem was explicitly addressed. In this study student teachers were prompted to explore their own understandings of social class and underachievement by acting as school‐based researchers. The data collected by the student teachers revealed both silence and resistance surrounding social class in educational contexts. They identified social class and underachievement as overlapping constructions that were inextricably linked to the perceptions and practices of the teacher. Importantly, in reflecting on their experiences of the research process the student teachers were able to identify significant implications for their own future professional practice. This paper concludes by emphasising that Initial Teacher Education (ITE) provides an important context in which to raise social class issues and to ensure that student teachers are effectively prepared to recognise and address the institutional barriers to learning faced by underachieving working class pupils.     

Historical argument writing: the role of interpretive work,argument type,and classroom instruction

Reading and Writing - This study examines whether and how five novice history teachers incorporated writing into their instruction. We analyzed observations, student writing, teacher feedback and...     

现代信息技术教育在英语课堂教学中的应用

本文分析了现代信息技术在英语教学上的优势,以及具体的应用情况,最后提出了要辩证的看待新技术与传统课堂教学的关系,强调优势互补,真正提高英语教学效率和质量。     

调控修辞理论——交际修辞观的建构

本文从交际修辞观的视角着眼,建立了新的旨在描写和解释言语交际活动的调控修辞理论,认为修辞是言语交际活动中的话语效果调控行为,即发话人有效调控言语交际的进程和交际的参与因素,运用针对性的话语策略,最大限度地促使发话人所期望的话语效果的成功实现,并对修辞的本质与性质、修辞调控的过程、修辞策略的构成等进行了新的探索.     

采取多种措施提高高职学生的应用文写作能力

提高高职学生的应用文写作能力,需从以下方面着手：精选文种,避免出现＂学得越多,会得越少＂的情况;培养学生良好的应用文写作习惯;注重对应用文写作思路的分析;让学生进行必要的阅读训练;运用情境教学法,加强模仿练习;小组自学与例文分析、病文改错相结合。