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From the Editor

JOHN TROYNASKI, Guest Editor
As a follow-up to the 2004 issue, “Teaching Writing on a Multilingual Campus,” this year’s invitation for submissions to Revisions: A Zine on Writing at Queens College requested offerings that explore the College’s linguistic diversity....

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Embracing the Multilingual Experience

No Hay Monolingües
EVA FERNÁNDEZ, Linguistics and Communication Disorders
Bridging Cultures and National Boundaries
TSETAN GELEK, Student
The More Things Change...
EILEEN BAKER, CUNY Writing Fellow
Analysis of the Linguistic Make-up of the Student Body: Queens College, City University of New York
CHRISTOPHER COLEMAN, Faculty Technical Support Specialist, Division of Arts and Humanities with TAMARA EVANS, Dean of Faculty, Division of Arts and Humanities
Language of Mathematics: A Bridge to Possibilities
MINDY MILLER, Student
萬花筒般的自我 Multilingual Selves
謝采秀 TSAI-SHIOU HSIEH, WAC Assessment Coordinator
Prórroga and Other Poems
JUAN NICOLÁS TINEO
Student Haiku

Translating Languages and Cultures

Creative Writing and Literary Translation
NICOLE COOLEY, English, Director, MFA in Creative Writing Program
Translation as preservation: A conversation with author Rigoberto González
KEN NIELSEN, CUNY Writing Fellow
My Life as a Linguistic Contortionist
ANNA OBRAZTSOVA, CUNY Writing Fellow
The Art of Translating Data: Experiences from Interview Research in Sociology in Japan and the U.S.
NORIKO MATSUMOTO, CUNY Writing Fellow

Navigating Language Communities

What Language Does my Body Remember? Simple Meditations on the Language of a Multilingual Queen at Queens
KEN NIELSEN, CUNY Writing Fellow
The Language of Law
KENNETH H. RYESKY, Department of Accounting & Information Systems
The Language of Science
JASON KRELLMAN, CUNY Writing Fellow

Teaching in the Multilingual Classroom

Demystifying Writing Expectations for Multilingual Writers
SUE LANTZ GOLDHABER, English/CESL
Shifting Perspectives in English 110
JACK NEWHOUSE, Student and Teacher's Assistant
The Decline of, Like, You Know, Litiracy?
BOONE B. GORGES, CUNY Writing Fellow
Les Tables Renversées
JOHN TROYNASKI, Director, Writing Center