Since I’ve begun teaching online, my engagement with my students has been mostly mediated through text. This primarily textual engagement with other humans, many of whom I will never meet face to face, has given new meaning to our symposium’s theme for me. Although we do have some videoconferences in real time, most of the listen, think, and respond sequences […]
As I have been brainstorming and preparing for this year’s “Transition to College Writing,” I have been getting really excited, as I will be co-hosting two separate workshops. This will be my first time presenting. I attended the symposium last year (which was also my first year at UM), and I just knew that I wanted to be part of […]
Lately, I’ve been cleaning: sorting, tossing, clearing out, making room. I’m trying to cut down on the visual noise that surrounds me so I can focus on things that really matter to me, like reading a book that was previously hidden under a pile of junk mail. As much as I appreciate the technologies my students bring into the classroom, […]
When the Department for Writing and Rhetoric began revisiting and shaping the curriculum for the first-year writing courses in 2010, I was a bit apprehensive. This anxiety was due to the implementation of a new assignment – the multimodal. I distinctly remember a conversation we had in the first WRIT 101 curriculum committee in which a fellow instructor expressed […]
Imagine that you enter a parlor. You come late. When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is about…You listen for a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the argument; then you put […]