Historical Approaches Archives - Page 2 of 5

First-Year Composition

Educators are always being criticized for their ways of teaching but society never understands why. This week we read articles that discuss as such!

Encouraging future success by pursuing applicable knowledge, and stressing that composition courses are an entryway to writing, not a certification.

Downs and Wardle advocate for the Writing about Writing approach in FYC, emphasizing writing studies over general writing skills.

Annoyance with freshmen is their (unfortunate) rite of passage—but let’s not take it out on their first-year writing courses too.

This week we have two articles, both with Elizabeth Wardle. For better or worse, we take a closer look at first-year composition courses.

Misconceptions of academic completion within the first year of a writing students’ studies can influence fallacies of expectations

Writing instructors shouldn’t be responsible for teaching across multiple disciplines. Would an Intro to Writing Studies course be successful?

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

Within this blog, you can find me reflecting back to college composition classes and adding a personal input on this topics.

The internal axiological war boils down to the question if you believe writing is for the writer, or for the reader. Perhaps both?