We make classes about our interests & hope students take them because they care. How much more would students engage with courses about their interests?Read More
Grad students applying for jobs — and their graduate programs — must know themselves, their expectations, and their audiences for the job market to work.Read More
Requirements to submit work to Turnitin are built on a misunderstanding of “originality” in academia. Students must feel trusted & respected, not suspect.Read More
Teaching the rhetorical gesture of hyperlinks, suggesting an intervention to develop students' skills using existing, familiar tools and technologies.Read More
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.Read More
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.Read More
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.Read More