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Staying in Our Lane: WAC as Rhet/Comp Diplomacy
22 Mar 2024
Chris Friend
Presentations
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Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC)
diplomacy
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teaching
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WAC
,
writing
0
Writing scholars can strengthen their credibility by serving as instructional consultants. Learn how WAC diplomacy benefits all faculty.
Writing at Urban R2 Institutions: Expectations, Limitations, and Aspirations
05 Nov 2023
Chris Friend
First-Year Writing
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Writing
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Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC)
Kean
,
WAC
0
As an aspiring R-2 institution, Kean needs a discipline-driven Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program. Here's how it could work.
Revision: Writing Through Failure
21 Feb 2023
Chris Friend
Writing
orality
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revision
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speech
0
Writing affords us the ability to revise our ideas before delivering them. Here’s why writing classes should teach through failure.
America Has an Authority Problem
14 Feb 2023
Chris Friend
Teaching
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Writing
authority
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composition
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synthesis
0
We teach children to respect and follow authority without teaching them how to build their own authority. Can we afford to let that continue?
Discourse Communities: Building Identities, Sharing Expectations
06 Feb 2023
Chris Friend
Writing
discourse community
1
John Swales listed the six characteristics that qualify groups as discourse communities. Here's why they matter and how to understand them.
The Visual Literacies of Writing
04 Feb 2023
Chris Friend
Technology
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Text and Print
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Writing
formatting
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typography
0
Writing requires visual literacies, which too often go unacknowledged. Students need to learn about readability and effective document design.
Personal(ized) Writing
01 Feb 2023
Chris Friend
Teaching
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Technology
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Writing
AI
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first-person writing
0
Writing is a human invention that allows humans to connect and shape ideas. Removing the personal element (esp. with ChatGPT) ruins writing.
Complicating Literacy
27 Jan 2023
Chris Friend
Writing
discourses
,
literacies
0
Children develop their primary literacy at home and secondary literacies at school. Here’s how technology complicates that process.
The Authorial Functions of Writing
24 Jan 2023
Chris Friend
Teaching
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Writing
rhetoric
,
teaching
,
writing
0
Beyond merely conveying information, writing has many functions, many of which benefit the author, not just the audience. See how it works.
Agency: Personalized Privacy
20 Jan 2023
Chris Friend
Technology
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Writing
agency
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algorithms
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control
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platforms
3
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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