Rethinking Your Writing

Category: Section 2 Composing

RYW Greatest Hits, Episode 1: Top 10 Chapters

Mar 1, 2025

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E Shelley Reid

in Section 1 Rethinking Your Writing, Section 2 Composing, Section 3 Writing Patterns, Section 5 Exercises

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…
Four Moves That Reflective Writers Make

Jun 4, 2024

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E Shelley Reid

in Launching in 5-4-3, Section 2 Composing

Rethink the “post-script” as the model for reflection The fourth writing program that I taught in was at a school that required every class to have a final exam. What should a first-year writing final exam look like? I knew it wasn’t a typical “timed essay” graded on how well students plugged truisms into a…