by Max Barnhart I’d like to think of myself as a good writer and a good writing instructor. Although I don’t engage with long-form student writing regularly in my position as a biology laboratory teaching assistant, I do spend a substantial amount of time each week reading and editing writing from graduate students in my…
by Alexander Smith We should be much more patient in assessing and helping students with their writing, and we should reflect on what it was like to be an undergraduate when teaching. In my reflection of being a writing coach, and in speaking to other teaching assistants and instructors, I have noticed an endless amount…
by Arielle Crumley As a teaching assistant in the Writing Intensive Program, I am constantly reading student writing. Though it is time consuming work, one of the joys of this opportunity is watching students explore their own thoughts and ideas and communicate them through their writing. For writers, sharing our writing can makes us feel…
by Freddy Saia Unlike many of the WIP teaching assistants who have posted thus far this semester, I will not be TAing for a Writing Intensive Program class until Spring 2022. I have, though, been instructor of record for some number of Precalculus and Calculus I sections since Fall 2018 as part of my graduate…