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Laura Andreescu WAC Portfolio 2022
Laura Andreescu WAC Portfolio 2022
Teaching Writing: Nobody Knows the Rules, Just Write
An earlier post, “Perceiving Writing as a Process, Not a Product”, began with a potentially apocryphal quote by a well-known author. In that spirit, I would like to start and …
Multimodal Thinking and Writing
Any educator would agree, I think, that course planning is a perpetual exercise of trial and error. For me, this has been especially true when it comes to finding innovative …
Modelling a Discipline and Delaying Closure in WAC Pedagogy
In Engaging Ideas, our WAC textbook, John C. Bean proposes that a “problem-driven model” of writing instruction draws on practices in the academic disciplines in order to reimagine the usual …
Process, Affect, and Writing
In the spirit of some of the preceding posts, I want to dwell for a moment longer on the ideas of process and affect in relation to writing. Like some …
Writing as Revisiting Connections
Sometimes when I put down on a page my riveting ideas in my mind, these ideas suddenly become bland and dull. One reason behind this, I think, is that the …
Writing, Stress and Anxiety
Nobody said dissertating was easy, but I figured it would be easier than this. Writer’s block is real, and made worse when you expect words to flow seamlessly from your …
Perceiving Writing As a Process, Not a Product
Supposedly there is a quote by author John Dufresne that goes “the purpose of a first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written”. Unfortunately, as …
Freewriting: Method and Model
For decades now freewriting has been a pivotal technique in writing instruction. Most students (but not all students, importantly) are exposed to it even before they enter their undergraduate writing …
Note Taking, Active Learning, and the Writing Process
Note taking is a crucial aspect of the writing process, and yet it is a skill that is often under-emphasized in pedagogical practice. Aside from exhortations to “take notes,” it …
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