Open Words Journal
Open Words: Access and English Studies is a journal dedicated to publishing articles focusing on political, professional, and pedagogical issues related to teaching composition, reading, ESL, creative writing, and literature to open admissions and non-mainstream student populations. Edited by John Paul Tassoni (Miami University Middletown) and William H. Thelin (University of Akron), Open Words is a refereed journal published twice yearly. Get information on submitting articles.
Spring 2013 Issue of Open Words
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- Editor's Introduction: John Paul Tassoni, “Why Are We Here?”
- Hope Parisi and Lara Rodriguez, Why Are You Here?”: Troubling Legitimacy for Basic Writers and Their Instructors in the Community College
- Tim Barnett, “Love Letters”: Narrating Critical Literacy Theory in the First-Year Writing Class
- Frank Alexander, A Perpetual Literacy Crisis?: Bourgeois Fears, Working-Class Realities, and Pedagogical Responses
- William Burns, “Where Are You Located?”: Postmodern Geography and the Open-Admissions Writing Center
- Michael J. Michaud, Literacy in the Lives of Adult Students Pursuing Bachelor’s Degrees
Spring 2012 Issue of Open Words
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- Editor's Introduction: Guest Editors- Sharon Henry, Seth Kahn, Amy Lynch-Biniek, Crossroads, not Cross Purposes: Contingency, Vulnerability, and Alliances in the Contemporary Writing Program,
- Jason Evans, Structuring the Color Line through Composition
- Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, “It’s Me and the Adjuncts”: Writing Program Administration and Marginalized Students/Teachers
- William Thelin, Memos, Email, and Reports: Writing to and Being Written by Adjunct Faculty
- Amy Lynch-Biniek, Who Is Teaching Composition?
- Marcia Bost, Moments in the Stream: Reflections on Fifteen Years as an Adjunct
Fall 2011 Issue of Open Words
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- Editor's Introduction: William H. Thelin, Editor's Introduction: Finding Ourselves Here
- M. Karen Powers, “Good Citizens” in a Twenty-First Century University: Social Class, Institutional Texts, and the (Anti-)Democratic Politics of Place
- Holly Hassel and Joanne Baird Giordano, First-Year Composition Placement at Open-Admission, Two-Year Campuses: Changing Campus Culture, Institutional Practice, and Student Success
- Laura Rogers, “The Secret Souls of Criminals”: A Different Prison Teaching Story
Spring 2011 Issue of Open Words
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- Editor's Introduction: Guest Editor—Jay Dolmage, Disability and the Shape of School
- Lynn Z. Bloom, Able, Disabled, Enabled: Mainstreaming the Disability Course
- Zosha Stuckey and Lois P. Agnew, Rhetoric, Ethos, and Unease: Re-negotiation of the “Normal” in the Classroom and on the Quad
- Bekah Hawrot Weigel and Lisa Detweiler Miller, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the Returning Veteran: The Rhetorical and Narrative Challenges
- Tara K. Wood, Overcoming Rhetoric: Forced Disclosure and the Colonizing Ethic of Evaluating Personal Essays
- Nancy Johnston and Tina Doyle, Inclusive Teaching: Perspectives of Students with Disabilities
- Linda Rubel and Rose Marie Toscano, I Am My Language: Representing and Misrepresenting Deaf Writers
- Nancy Viva Davis Halifax, Scar Tissue
Fall 2010 Issue of Open Words
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- Editor's Introduction: John Paul Tassoni, Putting the “Open” in Open Words
- Connie Kendall Theado, Left Behind: The High Stakes of (il)Literacy in the 21st Century
- Paul Butler, Forget about Community: Narrative, Ethnographic Writing, and (Alternative) Discourse
- Lisa Mahle-Grisez, Reframing the Seductive Narrative of “Success” in Open Admissions
- Diana Becket, Graduate ESL Students, Generation 1.5, and the Basic Writing Class
- Lance Cummings, What’s in a Name?: "Basic Writing in America" and "Beyond Shaughnessy"
Spring 2010 Issue of Open Words
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- Editor's Introduction: William H. Thelin, Impediments and Hope
- Mike Rose, Re-mediating Remediation
- Joseph Burzynski, Conflating Language and Offense: Composing in an Incarcerated Space
- Mark Sutton, Messages to and from Third Space: Communication between the Writing Studio and Classroom Teachers
- Jennifer Beech and Julia Anderson, Teaching the Obama Generation: Helping Composition Students Enter and Remain in the Public Sphere
Fall 2009 Issue of Open Words
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- Editor's Introduction: John Paul Tassoni, Untidy Alignments
- Pegeen Reichert Powell
- and Danielle Aquiline, Retention Risks and Realities: One Student’s Story
- Danielle A. Cordaro, Composition, Deafness, and Access in the Mainstream: Rhetoric and One Student’s Reality
- Robin Murray, Giving a Voice to Nature in the Postmodern Composition Classroom: Or, What Can Ecofeminist Standpoint Theory and Ecocriticism/Ecocomposition Teach At-Risk Students?
- Wendy Olson, On the Institutionalization of Basic Writing as Political Economy
Spring 2009 Issue of Open Words
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- Editor's Introduction: William H. Thelin, The Peculiar Relationship to Reading in College Curriculum
- Chris M. Anson, Susan Rashid Horn,
- and Robert A. Schwegler, The Promise of Eye-Tracking Methodology for Research on Writing and Reading
- Pamela Mason-Egan, Revaluing Readers and Reading in a College Support Program
- Carole Center, But I’m Not a Reading Teacher!
- Jeanne Henry, Cultivating Reading Workshop: New Theory into New Practice
Fall 2008 Issue of Open Words
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- Editor's Introduction: John Paul Tassoni, Teaching Beginnings for Multicultural Reform
- Alexandra Hidalgo, Group Work and Autonomy: Empowering the Working-Class Student
- Elaine Fredericksen and Isabel Baca, Bilingual Students in the Composition Classroom: Paving the Way to Biliteracy
- Writing in Ecological Microcosms: Kenneth Gillam, A Pedagogical Field Map for Re-thinking Process
- Beth L. Virtanen, What’s Wrong with Larry? Or a Case for Writing Appropriate Comment on Student Writing
Spring 2008 Issue of Open Words
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- Editor's Introduction: John Paul Tassoni, Access Places
- Tony Scott, How Soon Is Now?: Writing Work, Education, and Fast Capitalism
- Laura Rogers, Finding Our Way from Within: Critical Pedagogy in a Prison Writing Class
- Moira Casey and Karen Cajka
- with Stephanie Roach, From Other to Another: Regional Campus Freshman English in Transition
- Kim Gunter, Queer Disruption in the Rural South: Institutionality and the Viability of Queer Composition
- Gae Lyn Henderson, Saving the Word or Teaching Writing?: Complicating Binary Critiques of Politicized
Spring 2007 Issue of Open Words
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- Editor's Introduction: William H. Thelin, Open Access and the Working Class
- Wendy Ryden, Bourgeois Realism or Working Class Kitsch?: The Aesthetics of Class in Composition
- John Paul Tassoni, Richard Lee Walts,and Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, A Dialogue about Rhetoric, Pedagogy, and the Working Class
- Jane E. Falk, Shaped by Resistance: Work as a Topical Theme for the Composition Classroom
- Lynn Z. Bloom, The Ineluctable Elitism of Essays and Why They Prevail in First-Year Composition Courses
Fall 2006 Issue of Open Words
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- Editor's Introduction: John Paul Tassoni, Commuting Campuses
- Beth L. Virtanen, Brad, Sean, and James: Saying What They Mean in Voices that Sound Like Themselves
- Ann Larson, Amazing Opportunities Await: Liberal Mythologies at a Non-Selective University
- Sandra Young, Academic Legerdemain: When Literacy Standards Become a Sleight of Hand
- William DeGenaro, Why Basic Writing Professionals on Regional Campuses Need to Know Their Histories