Tag: Writing
What If We Told the Story of Our Values
For several years I taught my first year writing classes using four units. Then came the pandemic and I began whittling away at my classes to meet the reduction in […]
Poetry in Comp Class?
When I was planning my first year writing classes for the Fall 2021 semester I knew that each of us was broken in some way (due to pandemic and more) […]
Reflecting From Start to Finish
Reflection has always played a key role in my writing classrooms from the beginning when I used portfolios to teach first year writing to today’s #ungrading classroom. While those early […]
The 3 Reasons I Teach Rhetorical Analysis
For much of my teaching career I resisted teaching the rhetorical analysis essay. I became a college writing instructor after working as a professional writer (journalist and novelist) and some […]