This week’s post is dedicated to Deborah Coxwell – Taegue’s and Ronald F. Lunsford’s article “A Cornucopia of Composition Theories: What these Teachers Tell Us About Our Discipline.” It’s in the context of this article that we, my counterparts and I, learn what NOT to present in our FYC based classrooms. Further, the two authors …
A few weeks ago, one of my posts, The Frustrating Thing About Grading Comments, focused on commenting on students assignments from the students perspective and briefly on the teachers perspective. It’s in that post where we, as future educators and arguably students, learn how we wish to better collaborate and learn in the classroom. In …
Student Discourse and Textual Elements “What are students of discourse supposed to know, to be able to speak and write about?” Robert Conners (1997) This is a question posed by Robert Conners reiterated by Jody Shipka in her introduction chapter “Multimodality and Communicative Practices.” His question makes me think, again, about how I want to …
“Habits of mind refers to ways of approaching learning that are both intellectual and practical and that will support students’ success in a variety of fields and disciplines.” Kathleen Blake Yancy, “Attempting the Impossible: Designing a First- Year Composition Course” Kathleen Blake Yancey, author of the article, “Attempting the Impossible: Designing a First-Year Composition Course“, …
This week, we focused on what goes into syllabus, personal statements, and other artifacts created for the classroom. In addition, my cohort and I, as future educators, are preparing for how to educate incoming FYC students when specific audiences and analyzing data to document for that specific audience is presented in the classroom and beyond. …
Is This Thing On? My previous blog post makes a very brief pit stop at the concept of reflection. In the section “When Will My Reflection Show,” I make the point of stating that students and teachers should be reflecting on comments that are made and how to they help make the writing better because …
Feedback Fears and Frustrations As a student, draft comments are usually the worst part for me. It’s always after the assignment where I realize something wasn’t coherent or something could be improved. Fortunately, these comments are helpful to keep in mind for the next assignment. However, there are times where I questioned if my professors …
Finding the Narrative Voice When it comes to teaching, individual narrative voice is one of the most important. What is the individual narrative voice? Narrative voice is simply your communicative style used when writing something as simple as a diary entry, a note to yourself, or an academic assignment. In other words, it’s our unique …
Everything is Multimodal The term multimodal can be pretty deceptive depending on who you’re talking to. For instance, you’re sitting in class that requires certain technology and digital accommodations. It’s in this class where your teacher requires some form of digital multimodality. Within the context of the instructions, you assume that it’s purely digital. Therefore, …
First and foremost, let’s get an understanding of the term rhetoric. Based on the context of the texts that will be discussed, rhetoric is a technique that is used to persuade an audience. This technique can be written, verbal, or visual in nature, however, because there is texts involved, the rhetoric we’ll discuss is written. …
