Category: Threshold Concepts
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David Russell’s WAC
As fine arts students, many individual’s look past our hard work and passion. Many people truly believe that studying English is the easy way out.
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Am I an experienced writer?
Was everything I learned in all my years of school, a waste of time? Nancy Sommers concludes a study on student writers versus experienced writers.
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The Systematic Seperation of Me From Me
Education can no longer be perceived as a student processing facility. Both hooks and Sommers reflect a sense of writing and education as self-discovery.
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Take that L
Writing is all about taking Ls until they become Ws. Embrace messy drafts, revise relentlessly and turn failure into your best writing tool.
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Embracing Failure…Is It Ok To Fail?
Embracing failures and mistakes is what shapes the pathway for growth, experience, and development of revision skills for novice and experienced writers.
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Revision, The True Meaning…or is it?
Here you’ll find everyones thoughts on what it means to revise, along with some interesting insights from a case study by Nancy Sommers!
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4th Quarter
On our last stretch, we close out our deep dive into threshold concepts. The main theme this week is writing development.
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Write, Revision, Repeat
Revision is a critical part of any finished work. No one’s first draft is perfect. Why are we not taught to execute revision properly?
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One and Done
Strategies and consistent revision is needed to give us a formula of the most useful approaches and mindset to the revision process.
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Writing with Aura
People don’t write with confidence anymore. Forget boring prose. It’s time to write like you actually belong — with aura.