What Is College Reading?

  • writing strategies, secondary education, K-12, literary analysis, Pedagogy, postsecondary institution, postsecondary education

Edited by Alice S. Horning, Deborah-Lee Gollnitz, and Cynthia R. Haller
Copy edited by Brandy Bippes. Designed by Mike Palmquist.

CoverArguing that literacy instruction is the work of all teachers, K-12 and beyond, this collection offers replicable strategies to help educators think about how and when students learn the skills of reading, synthesizing information, and drawing inferences across multiple texts. What Is College Reading? will be of interest and practical use to any educator facing the need to offer more for students as they exit their high school career and begin the journey of post-secondary education. The contributors describe work in both disciplinary and cross-institutional settings, providing a wide range of instructional approaches and strategies.

Table of Contents

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Front Matter

Introduction, Alice S. Horning
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Part 1. Cross-Institutional Approaches to Theory and Practice in College Reading

Writing to Read, Revisited, Chris M. Anson
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Reading as Transformation, Brian Gogan
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Creating a Reading-Across-the-Curriculum Climate on Campus, Pam Hollander, Maureen Shamgochian, Douglas Dawson, and Margaret Pray Bouchard
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The Un-Common Read: Perspectives from Faculty and Administration at a Diverse Urban Community College, Jennifer Maloy, Beth Counihan, Joan Dupre, Susan Madera, and Ian Beckford
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High-Profile Football Players' Reading at a Research University: ACT Scores, Interview Responses, and Personal Preferences: An Update, Martha Townsend
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Reading about Reading: Addressing the Challenges of College Readers through an Understanding of the Politics of P-12 Literacy, Justin Young and Charlie Potter
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Part 2. Disciplinary Approaches to Theory and Practice in College Reading

Utilizing Interdisciplinary Insights to Build Effective Reading Skills, William M. Abbott and Kathryn A. Nantz
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Getting to the Root of the Problem: Teaching Reading as a Process in the Sciences, Laura J. Davies
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"Reading to Write" in East Asian Studies, Leora Freedman
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Examining a Rhetorical Approach to Teaching Developmental Reading, Debrah Huffman
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"O Father of Education, You Come with a Book in Your Hand:" The Ambivalent Status of Reading in a Two-Year Tribal College, Ildikó Melis
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Multiliteracies and Meaning-Making: Writing to Read Across the Curriculum, Mary Lou Odom
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Integrating Reading, Writing and Research for First-Year College Students: Piloting Linked Courses in the Education Major, Tanya I. Sturtz, Darrell C. Hucks, and Katherine E. Tirabassi
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Afterword, Patrick Sullivan and Howard Tinberg
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Contributors

About the Editors

Alice S. Horning is Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Oakland University, where she holds a joint appointment in Linguistics. Her research over her entire career has focused on the intersection of reading and writing. Her work has appeared in the major professional journals and in books published by the WAC Clearinghouse, Parlor Press, and Hampton Press. Her most recent books include Reading, Writing, and Digitizing: Understanding Literacy in the Electronic Age published in 2012 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing and Reconnecting Reading and Writing co-edited with Beth Kraemer, published in 2013 by the WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press.

Deborah Gollnitz is Coordinator for Assessment and Program Evaluation in a K-12 public school district in the Midwest. After spending over ten years in the high school English classroom and several years as a leader in curriculum-technology integration, she pursued the study of feedback and the role it plays in student writing development. She comes to the instruction of English Language Arts through a love of writing and focuses on the importance of reading with full comprehension in the development of strong written language skills. Her current work includes oversight of her school district's K-12 ELA, World Language, English as a Second Language, and Reading departments.

Cynthia R. Haller, Professor of English and Faculty Fellow at York College/City University of New York, teaches writing and rhetoric and has served in a number of administrative positions, including Writing Program Director, Writing Center Director, WAC Coordinator, First-Year Composition Coordinator, Deputy Chair of English, and Interim English Department Chair. Her published articles have appeared in the journals WPA: Writing Program Administration, Written Communication, and Technical Communication Quarterly, and she has contributed chapters to Reconnecting Reading and Writing, Environmental Rhetoric and Ecologies of Place, and Information Literacy: Research and Collaboration Across Disciplines.

Publication Information: Horning, Alice S., Deborah-Lee Gollnitz, & Cynthia R. Haller (Eds.). (2017). What Is College Reading? The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.37514/ATD-B.2017.0001

Online Publication Date: September 1, 2017
Print Publication Date: October 22, 2018

ISBN: 978-1-64215-000-1 (PDF) | 978-1-64215-001-8 (ePub) | 978-1-60732-860-5 (pbk.)
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Contact Information:
Alice S. Horning: horning@oakland.edu
Deborah Gollnitz: gollnitz@comcast.net
Cynthia R. Haller: haller@york.cuny.edu

Reviews

Review by Ingie Hovland for Reflective Teaching, January 18, 2019

Review by Meghan A. Sweeney for Composition Studies, Fall; 2019

Across the Disciplines Books

Series Editor: Michael A. Pemberton, Georgia Southern University

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