My wife works for FIT and they have much the same writing challenges that we do. They’ve developed some tools to deal with this. I thought it would be helpful …
A central tenet of the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) pedagogy is that the act of writing is in itself a process of learning. The clearest example of this to …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
I really appreciated Michael’s post on Freire and his notion of problem-posing education, which is inherently non-hierarchical. As I reflect…