Hidden challenges in source selection
At the beginning of fall term I presented some of the Citation Project research to Writing teachers in my own department, and as the semester has unfolded, I’ve had a number of opportunites to work...
View ArticleWhy use a handbook?
College instructors are justly concerned about textbook costs for students who may be financially struggling. We’re all trying to teach as well as possible, with as little financial burden to our...
View ArticleThe recycled news story, yet again. Nauseatingly.
On July 5, the New York Times offered “To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn Their Trickery.” Exactly one week later, it was “Cutting and Pasting: A Senior Thesis by (Insert Name).” Thus does the Times...
View ArticleThe labor of knowing
In the July 19 Wired, Jonah Lehrer alludes to the joys of fieldwork versus the “drudgery of the lab.” After several years’ work on the Citation Project, I have a much better sense of what he means. We...
View ArticleTen principles of teaching with a handbook
This week I have the distinct pleasure of talking with four groups of instructors who have adopted Writing Matters and will be using it this fall. We’ve talked about the Citation Project: how that...
View ArticleUsing the handbook in class: Reading assignments and peer groups
My classes, including a section of Comp 1, start on August 31. This semester I’ll be doing something I never have before: I’ll be giving no whole-chapter reading assignments in the handbook. I’m doing...
View ArticleThe Citation Project at CCCC 2011
I’m delighted to discover that all four panels proposed for CCCC and deriving from the Citation Project have been accepted. Even though two of them appear in the same time slot, it’s a great...
View ArticleWhat students hear
This is just a brief note written in a brief break from reading a not-brief stack of papers. I need to express my astonishment about how much students are taking in when it doesn’t appear they’re...
View ArticleThis just in from Twitter, via Facebook: Privacy Unleashed
Over on my Twitter page and on my personal Facebook account, I’ve been soliciting recommendations for a film to be watched in my Comp 2 course this spring. The course is themed on privacy–perhaps...
View ArticleAdventures in outcomes-based assessment
In spring term I’ll be doing several things I’ve never done before. I’ll be teaching online. I’ll be one of the Syracuse instructors who are piloting new learning outcomes for our Comp 2...
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