This assignment, designed for a graduate certificate program in rhetoric and composition, asks st... more This assignment, designed for a graduate certificate program in rhetoric and composition, asks students to create a writing prompt for an audience of their choice and to accompany it with a reflective letter written to a stakeholder of their choice. To prepare, students first read scholarship on college writing assignments: what kinds students perceive as meaningful, what kinds are most typical, and what kinds are encouraged in a writing-across-the-curriculum approach. They then consider what elements of this research they can bring into their own context, both in terms of teaching (via the prompt) and in terms of sharing their learning with a relevant stakeholder (via the reflective letter, usually written to an administrator, a colleague, or a student). By allowing students to expressly connect course content to their own contexts in two genres, this assignment enacts features of the scholarship students read. While personalizing learning is valuable in any context, it is especial...
This essay makes a case for including novels in general-education composition courses on occasion... more This essay makes a case for including novels in general-education composition courses on occasion, arguing that the identificatory posture of the reader of fiction can be useful. In this case, Sherman Alexie’s Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian was used in a literacy unit. Short quotations from student work included
Kelly Blewett, NCTE member since 2016, is a doctoral candidate at the University of Cincinnati, w... more Kelly Blewett, NCTE member since 2016, is a doctoral candidate at the University of Cincinnati, where she teaches courses in composition and serves as the graduate assistant for the Academic Writing Center. Her essays have appeared in Journal of Teaching Writing, CEA Critic, and Peitho. Her dissertation, a qualitative study of eight students across two first-year composition classrooms, examines how students’ perceptions of their teachers and classroom dynamics impact their interpretations of and affective responses to written and face-to-face feedback. The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel. Jodie Archer and Mathew L. Jockers. St. Martin’s Press, 2016. 256 pp. ISBN 978-1250088277.
At the 1966 Dartmouth Seminar, scholars gathered to debate the direction of English Studies in th... more At the 1966 Dartmouth Seminar, scholars gathered to debate the direction of English Studies in the academy. This debate had far-reaching effects and arguably forever changed writing instruction in the United States. To commemorate the 45th anniversary of this gathering, Dartmouth College hosted an event both celebrating the past and looking toward the future. Then as now, there is this simple truth: writing well matters, and it matters in institutions of higher education across disciplines. Yet what it means to be a good writer in the academy and in the public sphere remains a site of controversy and discussion.
This assignment, designed for a graduate certificate program in rhetoric and composition, asks st... more This assignment, designed for a graduate certificate program in rhetoric and composition, asks students to create a writing prompt for an audience of their choice and to accompany it with a reflective letter written to a stakeholder of their choice. To prepare, students first read scholarship on college writing assignments: what kinds students perceive as meaningful, what kinds are most typical, and what kinds are encouraged in a writing-across-the-curriculum approach. They then consider what elements of this research they can bring into their own context, both in terms of teaching (via the prompt) and in terms of sharing their learning with a relevant stakeholder (via the reflective letter, usually written to an administrator, a colleague, or a student). By allowing students to expressly connect course content to their own contexts in two genres, this assignment enacts features of the scholarship students read. While personalizing learning is valuable in any context, it is especial...
This essay makes a case for including novels in general-education composition courses on occasion... more This essay makes a case for including novels in general-education composition courses on occasion, arguing that the identificatory posture of the reader of fiction can be useful. In this case, Sherman Alexie’s Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian was used in a literacy unit. Short quotations from student work included
Kelly Blewett, NCTE member since 2016, is a doctoral candidate at the University of Cincinnati, w... more Kelly Blewett, NCTE member since 2016, is a doctoral candidate at the University of Cincinnati, where she teaches courses in composition and serves as the graduate assistant for the Academic Writing Center. Her essays have appeared in Journal of Teaching Writing, CEA Critic, and Peitho. Her dissertation, a qualitative study of eight students across two first-year composition classrooms, examines how students’ perceptions of their teachers and classroom dynamics impact their interpretations of and affective responses to written and face-to-face feedback. The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel. Jodie Archer and Mathew L. Jockers. St. Martin’s Press, 2016. 256 pp. ISBN 978-1250088277.
At the 1966 Dartmouth Seminar, scholars gathered to debate the direction of English Studies in th... more At the 1966 Dartmouth Seminar, scholars gathered to debate the direction of English Studies in the academy. This debate had far-reaching effects and arguably forever changed writing instruction in the United States. To commemorate the 45th anniversary of this gathering, Dartmouth College hosted an event both celebrating the past and looking toward the future. Then as now, there is this simple truth: writing well matters, and it matters in institutions of higher education across disciplines. Yet what it means to be a good writer in the academy and in the public sphere remains a site of controversy and discussion.
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