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Back in the Saddle
I’ve been on a lengthy sabbatical due to my doctoral qualifying exams. However, I’ve now gotten through the biggest hurdle of the process and am now happy to report that I am officially a doctoral candidate. My dissertation chair has given me the green light on writing my dissertation on social bookmarking and research-based composition [...]Confidence Building and Effective Revisions in the Basic Writing Classroom
I find myself focusing my energies in my Basic Writing classes on helping students not only become better writers, but also to build confidence in their writing. On a regular basis, I encounter students, both L1 and L2, who fear writing because of a fear of the countless red-marked grammar errors they must correct when [...]Admitting the Failures and Crediting the Messes
“The first stage of Open Admissions involves openly admitting that education has failed for too many students” Mina Shaughnessey “I cannot know for them what it is they need to free, or what words they need to write; I can only try with them to get an approximation of the story they want to tell” Adrienne [...]Second Class Citizens in the Ivory Tower
Teachers of writing struggle every day to help their students overcome the belief that they are “bad writers.” Teachers of Basic Writing struggle even more with this problem because of the stigma automatically attached to the class they teach. Students of Basic Writing register for a class that, I believe, should require a supplemental class [...]Basic Writing: A New Series
I’m finishing up my doctoral coursework with a class in Basic Writing Pedagogy. We’re two weeks into the semester and I’m already finding myself needing to write about this. So, I’m adding a series to the blog that focuses a bit less on technology and a lot more on the situation of Basic Writers in [...]Profile Information
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