CCR711 – Miller – What Should College English Be. . . Doing?

Miller, Thomas. “What Should College English Be… Doing?” College English 69 2 (2006): 150-55. Print. As with much of his work, Miller traces some of the binary-based themes about English in this article.  Miller starts by noting how most conversations about English studies have traditionally centered around the question of what English is to what it’s teachers and students should be doing.  Other discussions of English have focused... Read More

CCR601 – CCC 2/2009

Rumsey, Suzanne K. “Heritage Literacy: Adoption, Adaptation, and Alienation of Multimodal Literacy Tools.” CCC 60.3 (2009): 573-86. Print. In this article the author discusses “heritage literacy.”  Rumsey defines this term as, “an explanation of how people transfer literacy knowledge from generation to generation and how certain practices, tools, and concepts are adapted, adopted, or alienated from use, depending on the context.... Read More