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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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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…