It’s a Deep Subject
Your intrepid co-bloggers have, for about the past year, and especially the past couple months, been consumed with revising Writing about Writing for its second edition. This past week we finished its...
View ArticleIs It Time to Rethink Forbidden Topics?
Do you have a list of “forbidden” topics? Are there topics that you tell your students not to write about? If you have been around as long as I have, you probably do, or did at some point. Is it...
View ArticleSummer Is Still Impossible
Summer isn’t just impossible for our classes and the students in them; it’s impossible for me, too. Theoretically, this is my research time—theoretically. As the WPA for my school, I check email daily...
View ArticleMultimodal Mondays: Designing an Effective Infographic to Support an Argument
In today’s highly visual culture, it’s becoming increasingly important for students to learn how to read, analyze, and even create visuals. One type of visual that continues to gain prevalence is the...
View ArticleMultimodal Mondays: Working Together to Evaluate a Wikipedia Article
Collaboration is a key part of writing for many people today, and as I’ve noted elsewhere, I’m a big fan of collaborative projects. Here’s an idea for a collaborative project that asks students to...
View ArticleWriting BY HAND
At the end of my last post, I vowed to “spend some time this summer thinking about assignments or activities that will ask students to spend just a little more time in the deep end.” The deep end, of...
View ArticleClaims and the Research Essay
A significant part of many argumentation courses is the research essay. We teach our students how to find and evaluate sources and how to use them to support a claim. When a substantial amount of time...
View ArticleAre indexes obsolete?
A posting on the Free Library Blog recently caught my eye, particularly the following paragraph: Most students also don’t know that many books are indexed. Thus they are unaware that the nature of the...
View ArticleMultimodal Mondays: Re/Mixing Multimodal Assignments Across Courses and...
Today’s guest blogger is Jeanne Law Bohannon. When I begin a new semester, I try to make time to reflect on my pedagogy and its implications/opportunities for student-scholars across my courses and...
View ArticleMultimodal Mondays: Prezis and Source Use: Engaging in a Multimodal Annotated...
Jessie Miller is a Master’s Candidate in Written Communication at Eastern Michigan University, where she teaches first-year composition and consults in the University Writing Center. In her Master’s...
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