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Generation Vet

Composition, Student Veterans, and the Post-9/11 University

By: Sue Doe,Lisa Lanstraat

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Generation Vet

Composition, Student Veterans, and the Post-9/11 University

By: Sue Doe,Lisa Lanstraat

Institutions of higher education are experiencing the largest influx of enrolled veterans since World War II, and these student veterans are transforming post-secondary classroom dynamics. While many campus divisions like admissions and student services are actively moving to accommodate the rise in this demographic, little research about this population and their educational needs is available, and academic departments have been slower to adjust. In Generation Vet, fifteen chapters offer well-researched, pedagogically savvy recommendations for curricular and programmatic responses to student veterans for English and writing studies departments. In work with veterans in writing-intensive courses and community contexts, questions of citizenship, disability, activism, community-campus relationships, and retention come to the fore. Moreover, writing-intensive courses can be sites of significant cultural exchanges—even clashes—as veterans bring military values, rhetorical traditions, and communication styles that may challenge the values, beliefs, and assumptions of traditional college students and faculty. This classroom-oriented text addresses a wide range of issues concerning veterans, pedagogy, rhetoric, and writing program administration. Written by diverse scholar-teachers and written in diverse genres, the essays in this collection promise to enhance our understanding of student veterans, composition pedagogy and administration, and the post-9/11 university.

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302

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University Press of Colorado

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1492012793

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9781492012795

Leadership in Unknown Waters

Liminality as Threshold to the Future

By: Lisa Withrow

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Leadership in Unknown Waters

Liminality as Threshold to the Future

By: Lisa Withrow

Leadership in Unknown Waters invites organizational leaders and their teams to engage powerful questions amidst ambiguity and uncertainty as they move from the-way-things-were to an emerging future. This liminality, a threshold in space and time allowing for transition from something old to something new, is fraught with both difficulty and opportunity. Leaders, teams, and individuals who navigate this space skillfully will land in surprisingly dynamic places, encountering stories, metaphors, and inspiration for traversing the threshold not only competently, but with curiosity and confidence. In this way, futures are created that are not possible with fear-based planning or "quick fixes". Withrow's method intersects the human imagination through a visual, living metaphor (water), with attention to space (liminality, or transitional space), and focus on role (leadership development) for powerful engagement with what organizational learning theorists call "the emerging future". Here, the theoretical meets the practical and research informs the "how to" and "why". Diving into unknown waters with tools and wisdom can create a better future for all who face change, whether within corporations, not-for-profit organizations, faith communities, family systems, or interpersonal relationships.

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189

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Lutterworth Press

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071884808X

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9780718848088

Four Worlds of Writing

By: Janice Lauer,Andrea Lundsford,Janet Atwill,Thomas Clemens,William Hart-Davidson,Debra Jacobs,Lisa Langstraat,Libby Miles,Tim Peeples,Nan Uber-Kellogg

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Four Worlds of Writing

By: Janice Lauer,Andrea Lundsford,Janet Atwill,Thomas Clemens,William Hart-Davidson,Debra Jacobs,Lisa Langstraat,Libby Miles,Tim Peeples,Nan Uber-Kellogg

The everyday world. The public world. The academic world. The work world. These are the Four Worlds of Writing explored in this book, providing familiar contexts that help students use the writing process to expand knowledge and effect change . This composition text teaches flexible strategies to hone writing skills. Readers learn to begin the process by asking questions about important aspects of their lives that they seek to understand and change. Writing becomes a means to build on what they know and create some form of action, such as gaining new insights, increasing commitment to an issue, taking a new position or rejecting an old one. With multiple writing examples, Four Worlds of Writing offers guidance to help its readers write more powerfully and persuasively. For those interested in improving their writing to help its readers write more powerfully and persuasively. For those interested in improving their writing

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Longman Publishing Group

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0321102975

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9780321102973

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