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"""Incredibly important and timely for our profession."" --Patrick Sullivan, Manchester Community College ""Striking the perfect balance of theoretical analysis and practical application, Carillo shows how to engage dialectically with our students and the educational system that has provided them with such a stripped down, test-friendly version of literacy. There is valuable work yet to be done and Carillo shows us how to get to it."" --Richard E. Miller, Rutgers University ""This book is written primarily for instructors in first-year college writing courses, but much of it will prove useful to frustrated teachers in any discipline. . . . it does set out thoughtful ideas about how to think about teaching reading."" --Reflective Teaching ""The book demonstrates how much we have to learn by looking at and reflecting on the literate lives of college students, in the composition classroom and, most importantly, beyond."" --Composition Studies"

The book demonstrates how much we have to learn by looking at and reflecting on the literate lives of college students, in the composition classroom and, most importantly, beyond. --Composition Studies Incredibly important and timely for our profession. --Patrick Sullivan, Manchester Community College Striking the perfect balance of theoretical analysis and practical application, Carillo shows how to engage dialectically with our students and the educational system that has provided them with such a stripped down, test-friendly version of literacy. There is valuable work yet to be done and Carillo shows us how to get to it. --Richard E. Miller, Rutgers University This book is written primarily for instructors in first-year college writing courses, but much of it will prove useful to frustrated teachers in any discipline. . . . it does set out thoughtful ideas about how to think about teaching reading. --Reflective Teaching

Incredibly important and timely for our profession. --Patrick Sullivan, Manchester Community College Striking the perfect balance of theoretical analysis and practical application, Carillo shows how to engage dialectically with our students and the educational system that has provided them with such a stripped down, test-friendly version of literacy. There is valuable work yet to be done and Carillo shows us how to get to it. --Richard E. Miller, Rutgers University This book is written primarily for instructors in first-year college writing courses, but much of it will prove useful to frustrated teachers in any discipline. . . . it does set out thoughtful ideas about how to think about teaching reading. --Reflective Teaching

Incredibly important and timely for our profession. --Patrick Sullivan, Manchester Community College Striking the perfect balance of theoretical analysis and practical application, Carillo shows how to engage dialectically with our students and the educational system that has provided them with such a stripped down, test-friendly version of literacy. There is valuable work yet to be done and Carillo shows us how to get to it. --Richard E. Miller, Rutgers University

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Ellen C. Carillo is associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut and the writing program coordinator at its Waterbury Campus. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in composition and literature, and her scholarship has been published in Rhetoric Review; The Writing Lab Newsletter; Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy; Feminist Teacher; Currents in Teaching and Learning; and several edited collections. She is the author of Securing a Place for Reading in Composition, A Writer’s Guide to Mindful Reading, and Teaching Readers in Post-Truth America.  

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