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Low-Stakes Writing Practice: Snaps and Artifacts

I’ve been working on a blog post for weeks. My last original blog post (I’ve updated several but just can’t…

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Writing Slant

One year later: One year after my first lesson introducing my student’s to the slant essay I continue to be…

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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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Inviting Writers

What’s New? This semester I have been updating the list of poems I use to inspire and invite my first-year…

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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…