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Creole Composition Jaquette Oenbring Milson-Whyte Creole Composition: Academic Writing and Rhetoric in the Anglophone Caribbean is a collection featuring essays by scholars and teacher-researchers work- ing with students in/from the Anglophone Caribbean. Arising from a need to de- fine what writing instruction in the Caribbean means, Creole Composition expands the existing body of research literature about the teaching of writing at the postsec- ondary level in the Caribbean region. To this end, it speaks to critical disciplinary conversations of rhetoric and composition and academic literacies while addressing COMPOSITION CREOLE Creole Composition specific issues with teaching academic writing to Anglophone Caribbean students. It features chapters addressing language, approaches to teaching, assessing writing, Academic Writing and Rhetoric in the administration, and research in postsecondary education as well as professionaliza- tion of writing instructors in the region. Some chapters reflect traditional Carib- Anglophone Caribbean bean attitudes to postsecondary writing instruction; other chapters seek to reform these traditional practices. Some chapters’ interventions emerge from discussions in writing studies while other chapters reflect their authors’ primary training in other fields, such as applied linguistics, education, and literary studies. Additionally, the chapters use a variety of styles and methods, ranging from highly personal reflective essays to theoretical pieces and empirical studies following IMRaD format. Creole Composition, the first of its kind in the region, provides much-needed knowl- edge to the community of teacher-researchers in the Anglophone Caribbean and elsewhere in the fields of rhetoric and composition, writing studies, and academic literacies. In suggesting frameworks around which to build and further institution- alize and professionalize writing studies in the region, the collection advances the broader field of writing studies beyond national boundaries. Contributors include Tyrone Ali, Annife Campbell, Tresecka Campbell-Dawes, Valerie Combie, Jacob Dyer Spiegel, Brianne Jaquette, Carmeneta Jones, Clover Jones McKenzie, Beverley Josephs, Christine E. Kozikowski, Vivette Milson-Whyte, Kendra L. Mitchell, Raymond Oenbring, Heather M. Robinson, Daidrah Smith, and Michelle Stewart-McKoy. Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition Edited by Series Editors: Thomas Rickert and Jennifer Bay Vivette Milson-Whyte Raymond Oenbring Brianne Jaquette 3015 Brackenberry Drive Anderson, South Carolina 29621 Parlor http://www.parlorpress.com Press S A N: 2 5 4 – 8 8 7 9 ISBN: 978-1-64317-113-5 CREOLE COMPOSITION Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition Editors: Thomas Rickert and Jennifer Bay The Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition honors the contributions Janice Lau- er has made to the emergence of Rhetoric and Composition as a disciplinary study. It publishes scholarship that carries on Professor Lauer’s varied work in the history of written rhetoric, disciplinarity in composition studies, contemporary pedagogical theory, and written literacy theory and research. Books in the Series Creole Composition: Academic Writing and Rhetoric in the Anglophone Caribbean (Mil- son-Whyte, Oenbring, & Jaquette, 2019) Retellings: Opportunities for Feminist Research in Rhetoric and Composition Studies (Enoch & Jack, 2019) Facing the Sky: Composing through Trauma in Word and Image (Fox, 2016) Expel the Pretender: Rhetoric Renounced and the Politics of Style (Wiederhold, 2015) First-Year Composition: From Theory to Practice (Coxwell-Teague & Lunsford, 2014) Contingency, Immanence, and the Subject of Rhetoric (Richardson, 2013) Rewriting Success in Rhetoric & Composition Careers (Goodburn, LeCourt, Leverenz, 2012) Writing a Progressive Past: Women Teaching and Writing in the Progressive Era (Mastrangelo, 2012) Greek Rhetoric Before Aristotle, 2e, Rev. and Exp. Ed. (Enos, 2012) Rhetoric’s Earthly Realm: Heidegger, Sophistry, and the Gorgian Kairos (Miller, 2011) *Winner of the Olson Award for Best Book in Rhetorical Theory 2011 Techne, from Neoclassicism to Postmodernism: Understanding Writing as a Useful, Teach- able Art (Pender, 2011) Walking and Talking Feminist Rhetorics: Landmark Essays and Controversies (Buchanan & Ryan, 2010) Transforming English Studies: New Voices in an Emerging Genre (Ostergaard, Ludwig, & Nugent, 2009) Ancient Non-Greek Rhetorics (Lipson & Binkley, 2009) Roman Rhetoric: Revolution and the Greek Influence, Rev. and Exp Ed. (Enos, 2008) Stories of Mentoring: Theory and Praxis (Eble & Gaillet, 2008) Writers Without Borders: Writing and Teaching in Troubled Times (Bloom, 2008) 1977: A Cultural Moment in Composition (Henze, Selzer, % Sharer, 2008) The Promise and Perils of Writing Program Administration (Enos & Borrowman, 2008) Untenured Faculty as Writing Program Administrators: Institutional Practices and Politics, (Dew & Horning, 2007) Networked Process: Dissolving Boundaries of Process and Post-Process (Foster, 2007) Composing a Community: A History of Writing Across the Curriculum (McLeod & Soven, 2006) Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration: Individuals, Communities, and the Formation of a Discipline (L’Eplattenier and Mastrangelo, 2004). Winner of the WPA Best Book Award for 2004–2005 Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English StudiesExp. Ed. (Berlin, 2003) CREOLE COMPOSITION Academic Writing and Rhetoric in the Anglophone Caribbean Edited by Vivette Milson-Whyte, Raymond Oenbring, and Brianne Jaquette Parlor Press Anderson, South Carolina www.parlorpress.com Parlor Press LLC, Anderson, South Carolina, USA © 2019 by Parlor Press All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America S A N: 2 5 4 - 8 8 7 9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data on File 1 2 3 4 5 Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition Editors: Thomas Rickert and Jennifer Bay Cover design by David Blakesley. Front cover image: Photo by Jakob Owens on Unsplash. Back cover image: “Caribbean Map,” Uwe Dedering [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)] Printed on acid-free paper. Parlor Press, LLC is an independent publisher of scholarly and trade titles in print and multimedia formats. This book is available in paper, cloth and eBook formats from Parlor Press on the World Wide Web at http://www. parlorpress.com or through online and brick-and-mortar bookstores. For submission information or to find out about Parlor Press publications, write to Parlor Press, 3015 Brackenberry Drive, Anderson, South Carolina, 29621, or email [email protected]. Contents Preface: Hurricanes, Colonialism, and Language vii Vivette Milson-Whyte, Raymond Oenbring, and Brianne Jaquette Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Expanding Linguistic Diversity 3 Vivette Milson-Whyte, Raymond Oenbring, and Brianne Jaquette Section One: Reflections on Linguistic Turmoil 37 1 Teaching Literacy Skills in the Jamaican Creole- Speaking Environment: A Reflection 39 Carmeneta V. Jones 2 Building around Nation Language: A Critical Reflection on Teaching Composition at the University of The Bahamas 76 Jacob Dyer Spiegel Section Two: Empirical Studies of Attitudes and Time Management 105 3 Teaching on Island Time: Deadlines, Procrastination, and Composition at the University of The Bahamas 107 Christine E. Kozikowski 4 Academic Writing in the Caribbean: Attitudes Matter 125 Melissa L. Alleyne Section Three: Perspectives on Language and Error 155 5 Understanding and Shifting a Marking Community’s Response to Students’ Writing: Lessons from Jamaican Instructors’ “expression” Comments 157 Annife Campbell 6 Balancing Composition and Grammar in the UTech, Jamaica Classroom 178 Daidrah Smith and Michelle Stewart-McKoy v vi Contents 7 “African American” Anglophone Caribbean Writers in a Historically Black University Writing Center 202 Kendra Mitchell Section Four: Institutional Contexts 221 8 Administrators’ and Lecturers’ Perceptions of English Language-Mediated Academic Literacy Skills Development at a Jamaican University 223 Clover Jones McKenzie and Beverley Josephs 9 Solving Problems and Signaling Potential in Writing Program Administration at The University of The West Indies, St. Augustine Campus (UWISTA) 250 Tyrone Ali Section Five: Regional Perspectives: Archipelagic Thinking 269 10 The Small Island Polis: Rhetorical Pedagogy in the Caribbean 271 Raymond Oenbring 11 Transnational and Translingual Perspectives on Creoles in Education: Casting a Wider Net into the Caribbean Sea 285 Valerie Combie Section Six: A Way Forward 301 12 Academic Literacies: Literacy Facilitators’ Framework for Self-Empowerment in the Anglophone Caribbean Postsecondary Context 303 Clover Jones McKenzie and Tresecka Campbell-Dawes 13 Postcolonial Composition: Appropriation and Abrogation in the Composition Classroom 320 Heather M. Robinson Afterword: Creole Composition? 343 Contributors 351 Index 355 Preface: Hurricanes, Colonialism, and Language Vivette Milson-Whyte, Raymond Oenbring, and Brianne Jaquette n September 12, 2017, days after Hurricane Irma had devastat- ed numerous Caribbean islands, the two major daily newspa- pers in the Bahamian capital, Nassau, went to press with the Osame above-the-fold headline (see Figure 1). Both papers were quoting Bahamian Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis’s assessment of the state of the tiny underdeveloped settlement of Ragged Island in the southern Bahamas; Ragged Island was “unlivable.” Despite the seriousness of the plight of those affected by the storm, public and social media discourse in
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