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Working with Lau Lab
The university library is a place of sanctuary and discovery. Over my years of teaching, though, I began conceiving of the library not just as a resource for study and materials, but also as an activ
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Chaos Theory: Relevance, Public Prose, and Design Thinking in the Writing Classroom
Anguishing over self-doubt is perhaps one of the most common traits of an educator or academic. It’s what drove rhetorician Robert Persig to the brink of insanity as he searched for an objective
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Writing in the Wild
In recent years, I’ve found myself increasingly saying two things to my students: I won’t assign you anything that I haven’t tried myself, andwe have to work in public -- outside of the classroom
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On Literature and Teaching Writing in the Carceral Context
Over the last year, we’ve had the opportunity to teach in the Georgetown Prison Scholars Program at DC Jail. What we teach, specifically, is Literature and Composition, a combined reading and wri
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Multimodal Assignments for Advanced Language Students
I entered last year’s Learning Community on digital writing assignments with the idea that my somewhat non-traditional class topic (soccer in the French-speaking world) would lend itself well to
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The (Design) Studio Approach to Teaching Writing
"Figure 06.1 Governance versus anarchy” by Jurgen Appelo is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Over the last 5 years, I’ve found my teaching radically transformed by the studio practices of design fields. W
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Tips and Tricks: Helping Students Think about Audience in Writing
Image credit: Pixabay. Good writing needs to consider its audiences - but when it comes to academic writing, it can be hard to break students out of the mindset that all their writing is simply me
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First-year Writing and Integrated Writing: What’s the Connection?
About three-quarters of Georgetown students take a first-year writing course (another quarter test out through AP or International Baccalaureate exams), so you can assume that most of your studen
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