by Kelsey Crane The summer after earning my MS, I worked for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources as a summer naturalist. My mentor taught me that to perform the best interpretive talk, I needed to start with an objective and then decide on the experience I wanted the visitors to have in order to reach…
by Alisha M. Cromwell After 13 semesters as a Teaching Assistant in various capacities, from grader to teacher of record, I was a little annoyed to learn that I would have to attend a class every Friday afternoon for the Writing Intensive Program. My initial reaction was “what are they going to teach me that I…
by Josh Bedford It was a fairly clear night. I peered out the window of row 20, seat C on the Southwest Airlines flight back to Indiana. I could see our 737-jet plane lightly glide across the scattered clouds in the night sky. As I gazed across the nocturnal landscape of Middle America, I could see…
by Karen Sesterhenn I am the writing coach for an undergraduate syntax course, but I am not a syntactician. The first time I had even studied the subject at length was only the semester before, so I didn’t feel qualified to be a TA for the course as the academic year approached. And I couldn’t follow…