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Friday, August 15, 2014

The best teachers and professors article: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2014/08/the_best_teachers_and_professors_resemble_parental_figures_they_provide.html

 
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  • Stoner
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  • The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker
  • Considering Literacy (textbook)
  • The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
  • Rubyfruit Jungle
  • The Plague of Doves
  • A Fragile Union
  • The Book Thief
  • Virginia Woolf: A Biography
  • Kristin Lavransdatter
  • Sexing the Body (textbook)
  • American Queer (textbook)
  • John Dewey's Experience and Education
  • Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People, and Culture
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  • They Say, I Say (textbook)
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  • Four Souls
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  • Out Stealing Horses
  • A Room of One's Own
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  • Frankenstein
  • The Yiddish Policemen's Union
  • Lu Chi's Wen Fu: The Art of Writing
  • Educating for Democracy: Preparing Undergraduates for Responsible Political Engagement
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  • The African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Nonfiction
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  • T is for Trespass
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  • Paradise
  • Jazz
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  • Native Son
  • The Great Gatsby
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  • Field Notes From a Catastrophe
  • Henry V
  • Plato's "Gorgias"
  • Salt: A World History
  • The Painted Drum
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  • The Hangdog Hustle
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  • Special Topics in Calamity Physics
  • Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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  • Scenes of Writing (textbook)
  • The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (Textbook)
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  • The Atlantic
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  • The Active Academic
  • The Month of June
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  • The Teaching Professor Blog
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  • a wiki re. technology and pedagogy
  • Across the Disciplines - journal of writing across the curriculum
  • Center for Research on Developmental Education and Urban Literacy
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  • Community Literacy Journal
  • Critical Reflections by Saul Carliner
  • Digital Pedagogy Weblog
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