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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!

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.

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

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

Fulkerson and Berlin explore writing instruction, grading challenges, and the evolving role of rhetoric and its difficulties in education.

To become free from degrading consciousness being able to fully liberate themselves in the classroom resisting vulnerability

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.

You wouldn’t date someone who puts in zero effort… or maybe you would? Why accept low standards in writing education? It’s time to do better.

A reflection on K-12 and college writing standards, comparing flexibility, creativity and real-world relevance in education.