Our Class Blog
Come along as we explore Writing Pedagogies, historical to progressive. New posts arrive each week from late January through early May, 2023.
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Revisioning First-Year Composition: Teaching Writing, Not JUST How to Write
FYC boxes students’ writing skills into skills that are applied to any situation outside of writing studies. Is there a correct way to teach writing?
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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!
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Modernizing Composition
Encouraging future success by pursuing applicable knowledge, and stressing that composition courses are an entryway to writing, not a certification.
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week 8: first year comp.
Downs and Wardle advocate for the Writing about Writing approach in FYC, emphasizing writing studies over general writing skills.
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Everybody Hates Freshmen
Annoyance with freshmen is their (unfortunate) rite of passage—but let’s not take it out on their first-year writing courses too.
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Wardle, Wordle, Waddle
This week we have two articles, both with Elizabeth Wardle. For better or worse, we take a closer look at first-year composition courses.
Categories
- About the Class (1)
- Disciplinary Origins (Week 1) (15)
- Historical Approaches (43)
- Beaufort (Week 9) (14)
- Downs & Wardle (Week 8) (13)
- Fulkerson & Berlin (Week 7) (14)
- National Standards (Week 6) (16)
- Progressive Pedagogies (41)
- Threshold Concepts (70)
- Authority & Experience (Week 4) (17)
- Genre (Week 3) (16)
- Knowledge & Expertise (Week 2) (15)
- Revision (Week 5) (17)
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