… you may be interested in this short article, written by me and friend & colleague Lowry Pei and published this week in Tomorrow’s Professor. It’s on ways to use informal writing and peer response in any class you teach, in any discipline.
Excerpt, “Ways to Teach Peer Writing and Response“:
Writing’s role in critical thinking and [...]
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- If you teach
Posted in collaborate, publish, teach, word on April 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
- Rejection is exasperating.
Posted in publish, word on January 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
After my “On Lice” essay received notification of rejection from the journal I sent it to back in August, yeah, I was disappointed for about a day. Let down.
Not personally hurt, though, or even stung. By the next day, my feelings had turned into exasperation, like Grace’s here.
Who has time for being rejected? Not me.
Being [...]
- Bodies are weird
Posted in body, publish, word on September 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
These few lines are from a conversation that Jimmy and I had in our upstairs hallway this morning. It happened to be about menstruation, but it just as easily could have been about sex, psychopharmacology, or even double-jointedness.
Jimmy: Bodies are weird.
Jane: That may be because we think of them weirdly.
Jimmy: And that would be because [...]
- Prompted by snow
Posted in leaf, parent, peace, publish, word on December 14, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The view of snow out of a second floor window into our backyard reminds me of other times, in other winters, I’ve stood at the same window and looked out on the same view. These linked memories seem to collapse time and heighten the present moment.
Yesterday I was the first adult home, and I dug [...]
- Tutor as tailor
Posted in publish, students, tutor, word on November 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My writing center colleague, Jane Hirschhorn, published her article, “ESL and LD Students: Diverse Populations, Common Concerns,” in the fall issue of Praxis. Grounding her discussion in research and personal experience, Jane describes writing challenges shared by diverse students, and she offers tutoring strategies, with examples, that effectively serve them.
Her key metaphor, incidentally, is [...]
- This one goes to eleven.
Posted in collaborate, publish, students, teach, word on October 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
At the end of the spring ‘07 semester, my friend and colleague Lowry Pei and I were catching up and talking about some habits that should be basics for writing teachers. The next day Lowry suggested, by e-mail, that we generate a list. We opened a new Google document and became more purposeful. Our motivating [...]
- Back story: essay on parenting
Posted in parent, publish, word on August 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A few days after I met her, at my friend Pam’s 60th birthday party, I got an e-mail from Amy, who, with her husband, Marc, runs Equally Shared Parenting, a website that offers encouragement to and shares resources with parents who “have made (or wish to make) a conscious decision to share equally in the [...]
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