Ten principles of teaching with a handbook
This week I have the distinct pleasure of talking with four groups of instructors who have adopted Writing Matters and will be using it this
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Adventures in outcomes-based assessment
In spring term I’ll be doing several things I’ve never done before. I’ll be teaching online. I’ll be one of the Syracuse instructors who are
This just in from Twitter, via Facebook: Privacy Unleashed
Over on my Twitter page and on my personal Facebook account, I’ve been soliciting recommendations for a film to be watched in my Comp 2
The Citation Project at CCCC 2011
I’m delighted to discover that all four panels proposed for CCCC and deriving from the Citation Project have been accepted. Even though two of them
Using the handbook in class: Reading assignments and peer groups
My classes, including a section of Comp 1, start on August 31. This semester I’ll be doing something I never have before: I’ll be giving
The recycled news story, yet again. Nauseatingly.
On July 5, the New York Times offered “To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn Their Trickery.” Exactly one week later, it was “Cutting and Pasting: A
Why use a handbook?
College instructors are justly concerned about textbook costs for students who may be financially struggling. We’re all trying to teach as well as possible, with
Hidden challenges in source selection
At the beginning of fall term I presented some of the Citation Project research to Writing teachers in my own department, and as the semester
About those videos
The McGraw team has put a couple sets of videos online. Some of these were taken in a studio, using a script I had written
Citation project website!
After two days’ hard work, Sandra Jamieson and I have published a website for the Citation Project. We’ll work with design over the weeks to