Tag: NWP

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This I Believe: Using American Creed as a mentor text starts us off write

This I Believe essays and the American Creed documentary are a perfect pairing to kick off first year college writing…

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Passion Matters

What’s New? This week my first year students started work on our rhetorical analysis unit. On Tuesday when I introduced…

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Teaching Humans

What’s Really New: Last academic year, by remembering that I was teaching humans I was able to engineer a soft…

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How We Began

I have always put a lot of thought into how I begin each semester – especially in the fall when…

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Jam Session or Writing Marathon?

My heart sank when I read the email from my department chair that one of my online classes for the…

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Authentic Teaching

One of my mentor teachers had a line that echoes in my head many years after we lost her: be…