Managing thesis-writing alongside the endless homework as a TA by Darío Lizancos Robles Finish your classes, they said. You’ll have plenty of time to work on your dissertation once you’re done with schoolwork, they said. It kind of makes sense, right? You’ve worked hard and completed the last classes you will ever have to take…
by Erin McDermott, As the semester has gone on I keep thinking about the difference between our students being afraid of getting something wrong and being willing to play. When we talk about the importance of writing to learn and the importance of revision, it reminds me of the importance of learning to play when…
by Irami Osei-Frimpong The barriers to good writing in my discipline seem to be both intellectual and attitudinal. Intellectually, the concepts are often foreign to the students, and even if the concepts are familiar, the concepts are sophisticated in themselves. With the attitudinal obstacles, traversing those barriers requires students to engage a quality of self-inclusion…
by Lea Davidson, Geology In my first month of being a WIP TA, I’ve spent much of my time thinking about what makes me qualified to be a writing instructor. Specifically, what makes me qualified to guide undergraduates into producing ‘good’ writing. This is not to say that I doubt my own ability to write.…