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An old friend of mine from UW Madison published this succinct essay a few years ago on Inside Higher Ed.  It’s even more relevant now.

Here’s the link to the instructional video for submitting final papers to the comp cloud.  Thanks to Asif and his team for creating this! http://inside.kingsborough.edu/engmovie.mp4

I’ve been using this article, and the articles posted in the forum in response to it, in my Eng 12s this term.  I’m sharing it here because it reminds me of the work the CRC is doing on reconceptualizing the broad social purpose(s) of Eng 24.

This article sparked quite a flurry of response on various composition listservs when it was published last week.  To my eye, Teller expresses many commonsense, commonplace opinions based on several presumptions about how literacy skills are acquired, what they mean, and how we’d like them to function in our society. […]

Thanks for bearing with us these past few years as we’ve experimented with a couple of different online homes for the composition program.  We’re delighted with this new site (many thanks to KCeL for their hard work!), and will be continuing to update and improve it with new information, documents, […]