by Laura Mathews, Statistics This semester I was asked to TA for the writing-intensive capstone course for undergraduate students. This was a new experience for me, as I have not had any formal statistical writing instruction and was unsure of how to teach students how to write in a new discipline. My background is in…
Communicating with Students about Conducting an Analysis and Setting Them Up for Success by Emily Tingle, Sociology In too many undergraduate classes, instructors of record ask their students to conduct an “analysis” in short and long assignments, assuming our students know exactly what we mean, and how we expect them to do that, and communicate…
Empowering Voice When You Have Something Worth Saying by Justice Britton Walter Fisher’s Narrative Paradigm Theory provides a conceptual framework and/or a shared perceptual filter which centers the process of meaning-making and knowledge production within a vision of the world as a set of stories from which various communities construct and constantly re-construct their lives…
by Isnayni Hadi If I were to ask you, “What is mathematical writing?” would you think of an equation or maybe a sequence of symbolic statements? Years of grade-school mathematics has trained us to make that association: math is just a series of solving equations. The curriculum requires us to take algebra, geometry, and a…