I so often hear people claim that your syllabus is a legal contract with the student. I have looked and can nowhere find evidence that…
I have a million things I want to write about this morning. I’m going to try to focus on J.L.’s comment about fake writing and…
I was thinking about black holes this morning, linking them to writing in- or out-of-genre, and social class theory (reference is always Bourdieu, but one…
Yesterday, UPenn hosted the fall meeting of the Philadelphia WPA (thanks to Valerie Ross, Patrick Wehner, Roger LeGrand, Doug Paletta, Katie Gindlesparger, and Liz Vogel…
I don’t know where this is going today. I just feel like writing. I know I use writing to get a bit closer to who…
I must be misreading–it looks as if people are actually reading my posts. I don’t want to comment on the self-devaluation involved in my…
Some people on the WPA list have commented on low-stakes versus high-stakes writing: in which situations do students put the most effort.In response, I imagined…
The more I think about it, the more I think I and my friends have been teaching upside down and backwards. I don’t have this…
I have been attending a conference on assessment at Drexel and consequently reflecting on my different ways of assessing and teaching writing. I have in…