Tag: writing problems
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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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Five Fundamental Truths About Learning Writing
Rethink how we describe the work of “writing” to our students One crucial goal I had as I wrote RYW was “Don’t mislead students about learning writing — even by implication.” Most teachers I know struggle with the question of how to simplify the practice tasks we give to learners without getting so reductive that…