Robertson, Ben P.

Dr. Ben P. Robertson is currently Assistant Professor of English at Troy University. He earned his Ph.D. in English Language and Literature at University of Tulsa.

Approaches to Teaching and Assessing Compositions of ESL/EFL Students: A Collection of Essays

2024 1-4955-1198-7
"This book is a collection of essays from conferences centering on the challenges of teaching and assessing compositions of ESL/EFL or second language (L2) students. The contributing authors have developed practices within their pedagogies that have worked in language institutes and university classrooms. ...The chapters in this collection include tried-and-true, research-based assessments, ranging from multimodal midterms to daily formative to ungraded assessments. Moreover, the essays explore the use of digital tools to encourage collaboration and creativity in multilingual classrooms." (From the Editors' Introduction)

Themes of Conflict in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature of the American South

2007 0-7734-5375-X
This work consists of an edited collection of twenty essays originally presented at the Conflict in Southern Writing Conference in 2004 seeking to explore the various permutations of conflict as depicted in two centuries of literature by authors from the American South. Also included in this volume are five original interviews with contemporary Southern authors (Wade Hall, Sena Jeter Naslund, Sue Walker, Stephen Cushman, and Betty Bayé) which bring the collection into the twenty-first century and present the same conflicts addressed in the essays from the viewpoints of the creative writers themselves.