Writing Pedagogies

Author: Ava Cam

  • Kindness Wins in the Classroom

    I discuss what kindness can look like in the classroom and outside of it, including what grading may look like, and why we should listen to each other.

  • Digital Pedagogy

    In this blog post, I discuss digital pedagogy and the importance of going about it your way. In other words, don’t let the computer tell you what to do!

  • Critical Pedagogy

    In this blog post, I discuss the banking model and community-driven learning all to be left with several questions: where are our starting points?

  • Point A to Point B

    This blog post discusses Beaufort’s revision process of a successful college composition class: what worked, and what didn’t.

  • More Than XYZ

    How do we get students from viewing writing as a “mysterious talent” to a “researchable activity”? Downs and Wardle help us out with this.

  • What Matters Most

    Deciding how we assess writing can be difficult, but not impossible. Here, I establish where I think I fall, and what brings me to this point.

  • Timed Teaching

    This blog post discusses the standard expectations and outcomes writing teachers follow. Though, are they suitable for student growth?

  • Words Can Dance

    This blog post discusses how writers fail to do what they do best, and the strategies they use to overcome this… by dancing the failure away?

  • Not Everyone Thinks Like Me

    This blog post discusses the history in which every writer holds behind them, and how it manifests in writing. It is fluid, or strained, and why?

  • Maker of Meaning

    What really is a genre, and how do they help us understand what we are reading? Does this categorization make purpose more clear to readers and writers?