Writing and rhetoric along the U.S.-Mexico border
This article explores the rhetorical patterns of writers along the U.S.-Mexico border. The article first explores the complex history of the border region, and grounded in this cross-border history, the article rejects border theories that privilege the local and U.S. view. Instead, based on the Human Capability Approach, this article explores five "functionings" or typified rhetorical patterns or genres on the border and examines how writers along the border are capable of working in a variety of these functionings. It grounds this analysis in health communications but ends by discussing how different Spanish-English multilinguals manifest different variations of these five functionings based on their individual rhetorical and cultural histories.
Teaching L2 Composition: Purpose, Process, and Practice
Brief Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Concepts in Writing and Learning to Write in a Second Language 2. Understanding Student Populations and Instructional Contexts 3. Composition Pedagogies: Theory, Principle, and Practice 4. Reading, Genre Awareness, and Task Design in the L2 Composition Course 5. Course Design and Instructional Planning for the L2 Writing Course 6. Classroom Assessment of L2 Writing 7. Response to Student Writing: Issues and Options for Giving and Facilitating Feedback 8. Improving Accuracy in Student Writing: Error Treatment in the Composition Class 9. Developing Language Skills in the Writing Class: Why, What, How, and Who References Index
Negotiating the cultural and economic outcomes of sport heritage attractions: the case of the National Baseball Hall of Fame
ABSTRACT Contemporary museums must balance their roles as commercial entities and repositories of various, and often dissonant, heritages and histories. Sports museums in particular often have clear commercial and nostalgic aims, particularly through tourist visitation, though the extent to which they represent more challenging narratives remains unclear. This paper examines how one of the most famous sports museums in the world, the National Baseball Hall of Fame (NBHF) in Cooperstown, New York, balances its dual role as tourist attraction and repository of baseball's sometimes checkered past. It was found that different sections of the museum provide greater or lesser degrees of engagement with more controversial issues, although the commercial outputs and appeal of the museum remains clear throughout. Utlimately, the NBHF demonstrates that balancing veneration and critique in collections can be commercially prosperous, and can provide a template for other sport and popular culture museums who may be wary of incorporating more challenging narratives in their exhibits. Furthermore, the symbiotic relationship between the Hall of Fame and the village of Cooperstown, particularly in creating and maintaining cultural and economic outputs, requires further exploration.