Category: Launching in 5-4-3
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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…
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Three Sample Syllabi Incorporating RYW’s Reflective Practice Approaches
Rethink your assignments My first composition textbook as a new graduate teaching assistant was state-of-the-art—and a significant mismatch for the way I wanted to teach. That was the first and last time I used a syllabus that followed a textbook’s path for designing a writing course: Chapter 1 leads to Essay 1, Chapter 2 leads…