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Writing
A dog waits patiently in the driver's seat of a car. Clearly skilled in diplomacy, this good pup waits patiently to make a strategic difference.
Writing scholars can strengthen their credibility by serving as instructional consultants. Learn how WAC diplomacy benefits all faculty.
A soft, fluffy, mottled-coat dog with adorable floppy ears rests its chin on a laptop, staring up at the screen, forlorn. The dog is right: Writing *is* hard. This good dog needs a good WAC program for support. And a treat.
As an aspiring R-2 institution, Kean needs a discipline-driven Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program. Here's how it could work.
This broken egg reminds us that failure is often necessary, even in writing. How can we teach students to embrace failure and revision when they've been taught that one draft is sufficient?
Writing affords us the ability to revise our ideas before delivering them. Here’s why writing classes should teach through failure.
Who has the authority to go past "authorized personnel only" signs? Who gets to say?
We teach children to respect and follow authority without teaching them how to build their own authority. Can we afford to let that continue?
A pile of various colorful stamps, mostly canceled and weathered. What discourse communities do they represent?
John Swales listed the six characteristics that qualify groups as discourse communities. Here's why they matter and how to understand them.
Stylized lettering adding visual distinctiveness to an outdoor wall
Writing requires visual literacies, which too often go unacknowledged. Students need to learn about readability and effective document design.
What happens when a robot needs personal space? This one appears cold and isolated.
Writing is a human invention that allows humans to connect and shape ideas. Removing the personal element (esp. with ChatGPT) ruins writing.
Every literacy we acquire grants us access to things previously unknown, like a bridge leading into clouds so dense we cannot see through them to the other side.
Children develop their primary literacy at home and secondary literacies at school. Here’s how technology complicates that process.
What are the functions of a hammer? Does that depend on the nails?
Beyond merely conveying information, writing has many functions, many of which benefit the author, not just the audience. See how it works.
What agency does a dummy have? The ventriloquist has all the control, making the dummy's, uhh, life(?) simpler.
When we allow our platforms and devices to make decisions for us, we give up our agency and lose control of our lives. How can we resist?
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