Content in Writing Studies
Lauer and Brumberger’s (2019) article, “Redefining Writing for the Responsive Workplace” has been a game changer for me across different parts...
Category: Teaching
Digital Scrap 5: Promoting Writing for the Web & WRP
In Fall 2018, the English Department is rolling out a new concentration in Writing, Rhetoric, and Publication. The program has three signatures which I’ll...
Digital Scrap 4: Promoting Technical Writing
I like a good flyer. These aren’t particularly good by any stretch, but they’re better than most–at least among those I’ve seen. This sp...
Practitioner Stories
I’ve always been a fan of Jim Ridolfo’s article on rhetorical delivery via the practitioner story of Maggie, a feminist activist who was working on ...
WAC and TFT: Does Theory Need Verification?
In a couple of earlier posts (intro here and follow-up here), I introduced and discussed a version of a TFT course I’m developing keyed to introducing stu...
WAC and TFT: A Critical Incident
[…] despite these impediments, we found that students actively make use of the prior knowledge and practice they do have, and in three ways: […] 3. ...
Digital Reading and Lanham’s Looking
In my digital rhetoric course this morning I asked students to build on our ongoing conversations about genre and the rhetorical situation, writing and technolo...
WAC and TFT
I started teaching a FYW course at CofC keyed to WAC today; the course is called Interdisciplinary Composition. In the course, students examine how disciplines ...
assemblage
I’m currently teaching a class on Medium and Design, and one assignment I have developed is based on Johnson-Eilola and Selber’s concept of assembla...