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Creole Composition : Academic Writing and Rhetoric in the Anglophone Caribbean.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milson-Whyte, Vivette.
- Series:
- Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)--Caribbean, English-speaking.
- English language.
- Academic writing--Study and teaching (Higher)--Caribbean, English-speaking.
- Academic writing.
- English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching (Higher)--Caribbean, English-speaking.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (382 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Creole Composition
- Place of Publication:
- La Vergne : Parlor Press, LLC, 2019.
- Summary:
- The essays in this collection trace the history and current practices of, and ways forward for, teaching composition in the Anglophone Caribbean. They contextualize disciplinary developments related to rhetoric and composition and academic literacies in the Caribbean and explore how academic writing is viewed and taught in the region.
- Contents:
- Preface: Hurricanes, colonialism, and language /Vivette Milson-Whyte, Raymond Oenbring, and Brianne Jaquette
- Introduction: Expanding linguistic diversity / Vivette Milson-Whyte, Raymond Oenbring, and Brianne Jaquette
- Reflections on linguistic turmoil. Teaching literacy skills in the Jamaican Creole-speaking environment : a reflection / Carmeneta V. Jones
- Building around nation language : a critical reflection on teaching composition at the University of The Bahamas / Jacob Dyer Spiegel
- Empirical studies of attitudes and time management. Teaching on island time : deadlines, procrastination, and composition at the University of The Bahamas / Christine E. Kozikowski
- Academic writing in the Caribbean : attitudes matter / Melissa L. Alleyne
- Perspectives on language and error. Understanding and shifting a marking community's response to students writing : lessons from Jamaican instructors' "expression" comments / Annife Campbell
- Balancing composition and grammar in the UTech, Jamaica classroom / Daidrah Smith and Michelle Stewart-McKoy
- "African American" anglophone Caribbean writers in a historically Black university writing center / Kendra Mitchell
- Institutional contexts. Administrators' and lecturers' perceptions of English language-mediated academic literacy skills development at a Jamaican university / Clover Jones McKenzie and Beverley Josephs
- Solving problems and signaling potential in writing program administration at The University of The West Indies, St. Augustine Campus (UWISTA) / Tyrone Ali
- Regional perspectives : archipelagic thinking. The small island polis : rhetorical pedagogy in the Caribbean / Raymond Oenbring
- Transnational and translingual perspectives on Creoles in education : casting a wider net into the Caribbean Sea / Valerie Combie
- A way forward. Academic literacies : literacy facilitators' framework for self-empowerment in the anglophone Caribbean postsecondary context / Clover Jones McKenzie and Tresecka Campbell-Dawes
- Postcolonial composition : appropriation and abrogation in the composition classroom / Heather M. Robinson
- Afterword: Creole composition?
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781643171142
- 1643171143
- 9781643171135
- 1643171135
- OCLC:
- 1257666768
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