by Xinyang Li, Comparative Literature As Dr. Myhre’s WIP Teaching Assistant this semester, I am responsible for grading and detailing feedback for undergraduate assignments, consulting with individuals when necessary, and solving as many of their writing problems and difficulties as possible. In this blog, I will detail strategies for setting assignments geared toward improving students’…
by Makeiva Jenkins This year I agreed to be a WIP TA with some reservation. Coming from a background of being a language arts teacher, I realized grading writing is a huge responsibility and takes an astounding amount of energy to process. You can feel the weight of grading and being responsible for the success…
by Alyssa Brown, Sociology, ’18–19 Sometimes I read students’ papers, and I imagine how I would write it to make it sound “better” or how I would organize it to make it flow in the way I think would make sense. I think about the way that I would write their paper if it were…
by Katie Reinberger, Anthropology, ’18-19 As the end of the Fall 2018 semester nears, I have been busy finishing up class projects and preparing for finals. This fall I was not TAing for a writing-intensive class, so it was the perfect semester to take WIP’s writing pedagogy course. This way, I had the whole semester…