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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The Affect of Literacies on Future Educators
A thought-provoking analysis of the impacts of literacies and the benefits of utilizing those literacies as a future educator.
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Taking Your Writing From Basic to Brilliant with Wardle and Savini
A reflection on personal writing based on Elizabeth Wardle’s “Why You Can’t Write in General” and Catherine Savini’s “Looking for Trouble.”
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Technology and Discourse
A dive into how technology can affect the classroom as well as examples of discourses and how they can affect literacy.
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How Literacies Affect Me Professionally
With a plethora of hobbies, literacies related to each one progress me through whichever applies to that specific hobby.
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Writing: Why?
Savini’s layout of a strong college paper can be extremely beneficial to students, provided the topic or “problem” they must write about.
Categories
- About the Class (3)
- Overview, Wk 1: Why Study Writing? (84)
- Topic 1: Literacy (171)
- Topic 2: Discourse Communities (216)
- Wk 4: Concept of Discourse Community (59)
- Wk 5: Authority (73)
- Wk 6: Identity (66)
- Topic 3: Process (316)
- Wk 10: Collaboration and Failure (73)
- Wk 7: Process Metaphors (81)
- Wk 8: First Drafts (80)
- Wk 9: Revising (78)
- Topic 4: Technology (168)
- Topic 5: Professionalism (161)
- Wk 13: Professional Writers (82)
- Wk 14: Employment (79)
- Uncategorized (51)
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