Our Class Blog
Come along as we explore the academic and professional sides of writing. New posts arrive each week throughout the semester.
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Revision and Feedback
Revision and Feedback highlights the successful use of multi-step approaches to edit and provide feedback to achieve effective writing.
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No support for meaningful collaboration
Rebecca Ingalls’ advice for improving the group project experience crumbles without the cooperation of both students and teachers.
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Collaborative Writing
The writers’ goal was to discover unstudied aspects, issues and successes of collaborative writing for a singular document.
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Berkenkotter and Murray “Decisions and Revisions: The Planning Strategies of a Publishing Write”
“Decisions and Revisions: The Planning Strategies of a Publishing Writer, and Response of a Laboratory Rat:Or, Being Protocoled” by Berkenkotter and Murray
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Revision in Writing
Where planning and revision aren’t separate stages but interwoven steps, challenges the myth that writing should be straightforward.
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Revision is Essential.
If you take away a writer’s writing process and give them a topic to write about in one hour, both the writer and paper are in trouble.
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