Making it Personal: a Tool for Student Engagement by Melanie Brown
November 29, 2022 The most memorable lecture I ever attended was in an Economics class in my first year of undergrad. It was the last day of class before the final and the …
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Creative Writing Across the Curriculum by Eric Dean Wilson
November 9, 2022 Last semester, I taught a 200-level English course called “Genre,” which I themed “Changing Natures, the Nature of Change.” We roamed through centuries and continents to explore how writers’ relationships …
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The challenges of assignments in the COVID-19 era: strategies for an active process by Giovanna Kuele
November 3, 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged education worldwide, forcing universities and community colleges in the U.S. to turn online. While there is immeasurable “learning loss” during the last almost three years, …
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Revisiting “Peer Review” in the Post-Pandemic Era by Weiheng Sun
October 17, 2022 In WAC, we consider writing as a process that promotes critical thinking. One of its implications is to emphasize revision. The revision process is built into the scaffoldings of big …
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Expressive Prose and Freire’s Problem-Posing Education by Michael Greer
October 10, 2022 In the third edition of Bean and Melzer’s seminal text Engaging Ideas, they posit that students are learning to critically think when they are “active, involved, consulting and arguing with …
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As stated in this article, peer review can give one a whole new outlook on not only the discussion prompts,…