CONTENTS: Editor's Note | Articles | An Inconvenient Tool: Rethinking the Role of Slideware in the Writing Classroom by Laurie E. Gries and Collin Gifford Brooke | The Genre Effect: Exploring the Unfamiliar by Heather Bastian | Everyday Curators: Collecting As Literate Activity by Liz Rohan | (Un)Earthing a Vocabulary of Values: ADiscourse Analysis for Ecocomposition by Paul Walker | "I Hope It's Just Attendance": What Does Participation Mean to Freshman Composition Students and Instructors? by Kerry Dirk | Course Design | English 109.02: Intensive Reading and Writing II, "Reading, Writing, Blogging" by Ben Mccorkle | Essay | Teaching by Indirection by Bob Mayberry | Book Reviews | Active Voices: Composing a Rhetoric of Social Movements, Edited by Sharon Mckenzie Stevens and Patricia Malesh, reviewed by Diana Yildiz | Teaching the New Writing: Technology, Change, and Assessment in the 21st Century Classroom, Edited by Anne Herrington, Kevin Hodgson, and Charles Moran, reviewed by S. Morgan Gresham | Ecosee: Image, Rhetoric, Nature, Edited by Sidney I. Dobrin and Sean Morey, reviewed by Alexis E. Ramsey | Technological Ecologies & Sustainability, Edited by Dánielle Nicole Devoss, Heidi a. Mckee, and Richard Selfe, reviewed by Leigh Herman | Buying into English: Language and Investment in the New Capitalist World, by Catherine Prendergast, reviewed by Kellie Sharp-Hoskins | Contributors