Author: E Shelley Reid
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RYW Greatest Hits, Episode 1: Top 10 Chapters
What are your colleagues teaching? Download data from WAC Clearinghouse in February 2025 shows almost 37,000 downloads of RYW, either in whole (5,481, the largest single type of download) or one chapter at a time, that have been tracked since the book published at the end of May 2024. This doesn’t account what happens after…
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Allatonceness, Or, The Impossibility of Chapter 1
Rethink where writing “starts” I’m a third-generation college textbook author, but I couldn’t figure out how to start writing one. Sure, I could easily start composing pages and pages of ideas about how students could improve their writing: I have no end of advice I’m happy to share about writing. But I couldn’t figure out…
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RYW Chapter 2 and the Slow Conversion of a Cognitivist
Rethink the roles of affect and metacognition in learning writing I came to the “habits of mind” table late, reluctantly, skeptically, slowly, and perhaps still only partially. Like many conversions, especially the grudging ones, I had to follow my students to get here. The Decoder Project and Epic Fails Early in the course redesign…