Our mission is to create accessible professional learning networks dedicated to the improvement of teaching writing across and beyond the curriculum. #highered
HOCs and LOCs are a useful concept for helping students through the revision process. As you think about what feedback you want to offer consider:
🔸What is the goal of the assignments?
🔸Where is the student in the… https://t.co/NtgNXcfb3u
CCCC offers two fellowships in the amount of $1,250 each to faculty members currently working at tribally controlled colleges to attend the CCCC conference. Deadline is November 15. Apply now! https://t.co/h0YaqutLZs
Episode 6: Nancy Sommers
In this episode, Nancy Sommers talks about her first experience teaching, her work on responding to student writing, what comments best complement her teaching values, and the importance of reflection in the writing classroom.
https://t.co/FqJnU1Hrma
The editorial team is excited for this special volume on cultural and linguistic diversity! Please consider submitting your work. If you have questions or would like to discuss ideas for possible submissions please don’t hesitate to contact me and/or my co-editor @DrSarahFelber
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@AcademicWRT @AcademicChatter If you're looking to do rhetorical analysis, we have a suggestion:
Have them analyze the Twitter feed and/or LinkedIn page of someone in their field/potential field to see what they can learn about how to communicate as a professional.
circulating a cfp by @HeatherBAN & Nancy Myers titled Rhetorics of Reproduction: Rights, Health, Justice. (see the screen shot of first para of cfp).
"If our goal is to provide students with a strong foundation for writing throughout their personal, professional, or academic lives, we need to envision new writing pedagogies designed to foster independence, resilience, and breadth of experience." https://t.co/akzP25hrCq
Ok @ncte, @TCTELA, and #katyisdela, as we all know Twitter has become a center of storytelling, with the memoirs and ramapages unfolding in threads.
What is your favorite (school appropriate) Twitter story? I'm hoping to pull some for our literary nonfiction mini-unit!
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One of our favorite events is open for registration: National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention.
#NCTE19 will be held in Baltimore , MD this year.
We're committed to making #professionaldevelopment accessible. That means addressing both the financial crunch and time crunch that most grad students and contingent faculty find themselves battling.
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We might not be Buzzfeed, but we think our comp theory personality quiz is kinda fun!
Check it out in the "What does it mean to teach writing?" section of WEST: https://t.co/bhG6rgHIrH
@ChelCWeaver@AcademicChatter While our WEST program is focused on teaching writing, there's plenty of content in there on teaching in general and surviving the first semester.
It's free, so if you think any of your students might find it useful, please feel free to direct them to https://t.co/bhG6rgHIrH