Letter of Advocacy and Writing Sincerely
Finishing my advocacy letter took a lot longer than I initially thought it would. It wasn’t long before I realized that I wanted to write my advocacy letter to my middle school English teacher. She was a massive influence on me in terms of how I decided to major in English in college, and provided…
Building Literacy Skills and Fantasy Adventures Through Dungeons and Dragons
A few years ago, a friend of mine introduced me to the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons. You might have heard of it once or twice, or even seen it portrayed in popular media, like on the Netflix show Stranger Things, where the kids play the game and even name some of the monsters…
The Art of Cramming: Writing as a Finished Product
I REALLY liked the textbook “Bad Ideas About Writing.” Maybe I’m just a huge nerd for this stuff, but I feel like this textbook is in a way a culmination of a lot of what we have been talking about all semester. Systemic issues that we have heard about or might have even experienced firsthand…
Google Map Places and Anti-Writing Spaces
When I came into class weeks ago to see our finished Literacy Narrative Map, my face honestly lit up. To see so many different, individual, and unique stories being shared in a classroom setting was an amazing sight to see, emphasized through the visual of the small little google map markers scattered across the globe…
The Roadblocks and Rewards of Interviewing
Interviews are hard! I’d like to think that I’m a fairly sociable person. I’ve definitely gotten better at talking to people over the years. When I was a kid in elementary and middle school, I was terribly shy. This persisted even into High School, but I think I finally started to come into my own…
Threshold Concepts of Writing: The Audience
When it came time to choose a threshold concept to present for class, I skimmed briefly through the table of contents, trying to see if there would be anything to grab my attention. And almost immediately the chapter entitled “Writing Addresses, Invokes, and/or Creates Audiences” caught my idea. The idea of writing “creating an audience,”…
Lost in Translation
Je suis en tren d’apprendre le français. J’ai commencé apprendre le langue il y a un an. I had to take 6 credits of a language in order to fulfill the requirement in order to graduate. I took Spanish in High School, and I liked it, but I wanted to try something else. I decided…
Asao Inoue’s Address at CCCC
Asao B. Inoue is a writer, educator, scholar, currently administrator at the University of Arizona. If his name sounds familiar, it’s because we read a piece of his work earlier in the semester, part of his book on labor based grading and labor logs. As a consultant at the Writing Center at St. John’s, part…
A Timeline of Writing
My expectations for the first day of my Teaching of Writing class were immediately shattered with the reality of several ice breaker exercises in which I got to talk to several of my new classmates. I learned a few names, and even met someone who was from the same town as me (it’s a small…
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