Joining the. Conversation. (...the USA TODAY of 102 texts.) Mike Palmquist
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Mike Palmquist
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Joining the Conversation
$ 60.75
(...the USA TODAY of 102 texts.)
Foot-In-Mouth Epidemic Hits Students Hard
Recent Poll Suggests Increase in
Dr. Bell: “Students are analyzing when they should evaluate, reflecting when they should persuade.” (more: JTC 98) Fear of joining academic discourse linked to paralysis cases. B 18 “Palmquist, save us!” Public cries for help. C 12
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News of the Weird: Book Instructs Class
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JTC Designs Dazzle! A prominent feature of Joining the Conversation is its use of graphic images and textual representations. Many of the pages look like websites with plenty of images, charts, pop-out text boxes, and nerdy computer fonts. Pages present images of popular website homepages to illustrate the design of the site or to suggest a particular search engine or database.
When Dr. Wilhelm Koss arrived to his regularly scheduled observation of ENGL 102-67, he found the students dutifully receiving a lecture from a paperback copy of Palmquist‟s Joining the Conversation. The textbook These features won the admiration of Megan had been the sole lecturer Bardolph, composition instructor. Says Barof the class since August. dolph, “It gives the feeling of being networked to lots of different ideas. The use of image The section‟s official in- challenges the linearity of more traditional structor, Sue Q., released textbooks.” (more: JCT446) the following statement regarding her absence: “The textbook was just so comprehensive, it practically taught the class for me. If a book did your job for you, would you keep showing up for work?”
A poll conducted last Thursday suggests an answer to the question on everyone‟s mind: does Joining the Conversation actually improve English 102 students‟ ability to enter into academic discourse?
The answer is ‘yes.’ The answer is „yes.‟ Author Mike Palmquist uses a conversation metaphor in order to invite students to participate in areas of discussion which they previously thought they were not privileged to join. The poll, based on a questionnaire distributed to two University of Louisville composition instructors, (more: OpEd)
