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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Discourse, Discourse, Discourse
My interpretation of this journal made me ponder on the use of AI in schools or in moments where using the brain is needed, similar to “mushfaking”.
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Becoming Literate in the Information Age: Computers as a privilege.
When you think about computers today, you never think about imagining a time when they did not exist. Computer literacy opened many doors.
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Good Writer = Good Reader
A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. In the same way, an overly polite reader never made a good writer. Good feedback breaks writer’s bad habits.
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Literacy: Between Effort and Fluency
Being literate has more to do with just literature, it is the attainment of mastery and understanding over a skill, tool, or field.
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Literacies
In this writing, I discuss what literacy means including the definition of it and how it relates to writing and comprehension.
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From one extreme to another: “Use ‘I’ more”
Let’s get this straight: The quantity of “I”s in an essay does not matter. It’s the quality of the “I”s that does.
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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