Tag: teaching
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Dented Beauty: An Autoethnography on a COVID-Era First-Year Composition Classroom’s Inclusive, Meaningful Researched Writing Culture
By Dr. Tom Friedrich, Professor of English, Director of First-Year Composition at the State University of New York College at Plattsburgh, and SUNY Council on Writing Board Member Featured image by Richard Ricciardi. I. March 14, 2020 My last student leaves, and I am alone in my lab classroom at SUNY Plattsburgh. With the Governor’s…
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How Reading Contemporary Short Stories Creates Good and Empathetic Writers
This piece previously appeared in the spring 2020 volume of Expose: The Journal of Expository Writing at Purchase College. By Emily Sausen At the end of each semester, I share a New York Times op-ed titled “Don’t Turn Away From the Art of Life” with my College Writing students. In his plea for all of us to…
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Teaching Writing Process in an Age of Distractions, Speed, and Instant Gratification
By John Mitchell Morris This essay first appeared in the Summer 2021 issue of Expose: The Journal of Expository Writing. Inevitably each term, after discussing with a student the revisions necessary for an assigned essay in my College Writing class, the student stares at me from across my desk (or, now, computer screen) and says,…
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Why Teaching Composition Virtually Presents New Possibilities for Rhetorical Exchange
Parts of this interview with Professor Cynthia Haynes, Director of Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design of Clemson University, also appeared within the Stony Brook University’s College of Arts and Sciences Newsletter, here. “There are people that I have met virtually and known ONLY virtually for over 25 years. Yet, I do not feel as if…
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Sound Writing and Literary Affordances
This post was originally published on September 23, 2019 by pedagogyandamericanliterarystudies. Sonic Pasts and Literary Affordances When I teach Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad (2010), I am visited by the resounding goons of our literary past. Aside from being a satire that explores the shift from digital to analog music in the late-twentieth century, Egan’s polyphonic…
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