Teaching in the Pop Culture Zone Using

This professional development guide offers insights and strategies about using pop culture in the first year writing classroom. The edited volume includes essays by instructors who share details of their most effective class ideas and writing assignments. It is a resource for new teachers and for those interested in incorporating popular culture into their writing courses.

Preface
Assigning the Obituary: Using Figures from Popular Culture to Help Students Argue from Research
Beyond the Boob Tube: Using Television Fandom to Create Community
Bringing Social Networking Sites into the Writing Classroom Using MySpace and Facebook
Composition Fellows: The Pop-culturation of J.R.R. Tolkein's The Fellowship of the Ring
Conflict in the Borderlands: Using Multiculturalism in the Writing Classroom to Help Students Articulate Cultural Identity
Evaluation, Plus: Using the Review Assignment to Move Students from Passive to Active Learners
Fastest Pen in the West: Using Quickmuse in the Composition Classroom
Graphic Novels in the Composition Course: Are They Really Novels? Clifton Kaiser
The Graphic Novel: Writing as Close Focus
Inspired Artists and Office Drones: Taking Literacy Narratives to the Movies
Pop Culture and Pedagogy: Using Urban Legends in the Composition Classroom
A Sound Education: Popular Music in the College Composition Classroom
Subvert this Image: Negotiating Multiple Literacies & Deconstructing Consumerism through Photoshop
Video Didn't Kill the Radio Star+ Laurel Taylor
Virtual Spaces: Building Communities in the Composition Classroom
Writing Students Should Write about Advertisements
Contributors
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Teaching in the Pop Culture Zone Using Popular Culture in the Composition Classroom

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