Thinking Aloud

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Finding What Students Really Care About

We make classes about our interests & hope students take them because they care. How much more would students engage with courses about their interests?
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From Mickey Mouse to Cigar City

Grad students applying for jobs — and their graduate programs — must know themselves, their expectations, and their audiences for the job market to work.
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Trust and Listening to Students

Requirements to submit work to Turnitin are built on a misunderstanding of “originality” in academia. Students must feel trusted & respected, not suspect.
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The Missing Link: Interventions for Enhancing Traditional Student Composition

Teaching the rhetorical gesture of hyperlinks, suggesting an intervention to develop students' skills using existing, familiar tools and technologies.
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The Question of “Can We…?”

Many writing assignments expect all submitted work to be identical. I want my students’ work to be delicious, and I want to savor each morsel of what I see.
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Being a Problem Teacher

This semester, I’m going to work on letting go — letting my students solve the problems of class, rather than trying to direct every effort.
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Breaking Things: The Syllabus

I’m trying to see what makes the first-year writing courses at my institution break, how far they bend before they do, and what gives way first.
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Publishing Student Work

In my Intro to Research classes, I wanted to find a way to make student work mean more than just a paper on a desk — I wanted them to try publishing.
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Questioning our Assumptions About Technology

The implications and consequences of technology demands are vitally important — yet nowhere to be found in our course outcomes.
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