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Spring 2004   orange square    Issue 1, Volume 6       in this issue       past issues       about inventio       editorial board
     
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  in this issue Technology: A Boom or a Bust?  
  Anna Imus, Robert Ployhar, Darren Ritzer, and Merry Sleigh  
  Michigan State University, George Mason University, and Winthrop University  
     
  Serious Play: Creativity in Composition and Pedagogy  
  Eric Melbye  
  Miami University-Middletown  
     
  Students' Reactions to the First Day of Class: Effectiveness in the Communication Classroom  
  Lisa Sparks, Melinda Morris Villagran and Don M. Boileau  
  George Mason University  
     
  Overreading Gender Through Misreading Context: Classic Texts and Anachronistic Ideologies  
  Catherine C. Mikell  
  Fashion Institute of Technology,  
     
  Spotlights:
Yes, But Is It Writing?
 
  Steven Krause  
  Eastern Michigan University  
     
  Using the Jigsaw Method of Cooperative Learning to Teach from Primary Sources  
  Joan Maloof  
  Salisbury University  
     
  Special Section -- Texts for the Teachable Moment:
Plato's Republic and the Teachable Moment
 
  Christine Cornell and Patrick Malcolmson  
  St. Thomas University  
     
  Can You Tell the Boys from the Girls?  
  Jo B. Paoletti  
  University of Maryland, College Park  
     
  Have You Seen the Dog, Yet?  
  Brian P. Coppola  
  University of Michigan  
     
  Rococo Suicide  
  Maura Flannery  
  St. John's University  
     
  Found a Penny...  
  Margaret Sankey  
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  Keeping it Real (or Reel)  
  Cecilia M. Plaza and JoLaine Reierson Draugalis  
  University of Arizona and American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy  
     
  Gattaca and Teaching Post-Modernism  
  Laura L. Finley  
  Western Michigan University  
     
  A Text for the "Teachable Moment": Ghost World, 2001  
  Arlene Wilner  
  Rider University  
     
  You Do the Math! Teaching with Trust  
  Brian P. Coppola  
  University of Michigan  
     
  Reviews:
The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
 
  Dean Taciuch  
  George Mason University  
     
  Response to English Composition as a Happening by Geoffrey Sirc  
  Donna Reiss  
  Clemson University  
     
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