by Valerie McLaurin Over the past semester as a WIP TA I’ve truly enjoyed immersing myself in the pedagogy of the program. The training has opened my mind to many simple but revelatory approaches to responding to student writing. In the past, as a TA for large intro level history courses, I sometimes gave into…
by Rebekah Marilyn Groth As an undergraduate student, I was never afraid to go knocking on professors’ doors during office hours. While I was always concerned that I was being a bother, I figured that’s what office hours are for, right? Showing up for office hours and reaching out for help was the best thing…
by Lauren Copelan “Academic writing isn’t creative and creative writing isn’t academic.” Says who? The learned dichotomy between creative and academic writing privileges one form of writing over the other. We are taught that there is a time and a place for both, but that college is the place for academic writing only (save a…
by María González-Ferrer Next semester will be my first time teaching a writing-intensive course on Latin-American cinema. In this class, students will not only focus on reflecting in writing about the films and readings that we will see in class, but they will also have to do so in a second language. As a non-English…