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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Reading: English Varieties and Intelligence

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Slate has an article this week titled " Which English You Speak Has Nothing to Do with How Smart You Are ." This article takes an ...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

What Playing Candy Land Taught Me About Teaching Composition

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This post originally appeared at Balancing Jane . My daughter is three, and right now she loves to play board games. This is awesome becau...
Friday, July 11, 2014

Book Review: Does Open Access to Higher Education Support the Goals of Social Justice?

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In Community Colleges and the Access Effect: Why Open Admissions Suppresses Achievement , Juliet Lilledahl Scherer and Mirra Leigh Anson ...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

New Profile Series

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Over on http://onebirdwriting.blogspot.com/ , we're sharing 10 Student Profiles from English 030-402 (Summer 2014). Students interviewed...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Developmental Writing in the Historical Trajectory of Rhetoric

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This post originally appeared at Balancing Jane .  "So when you get your PhD, will they let you teach real classes?" This ques...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Assignment: Profile

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OVERVIEW You already have many profiles in life: parent, sibling, child, employee, cousin, aunt/uncle, recovering from something, athlete,...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Code Switching and Culture Series: On Short Skirts and Black Vernacular English, Making Choices from the Intersection

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Since we've been discussing code switching and culture on this blog, I wanted to share a post I published previously on my personal blog...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Let's Discuss Code Switching and Culture Series: Hallie Quinn Brown

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The term code switching  gained prominence in the last few decades due to the work of theorist  Lisa Delpit  and other scholars of lingui...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

Let's Discuss Code Switching and Culture

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I grew up in a code-switching environment in Dallas, Texas.  I used to puzzle over the Arabic language on labels of my family's A...
Saturday, January 4, 2014

Writing is Like Metaphor Series: Revising is Like Sculpting with Play-Doh

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I'm not just saying this one to my students; this is a lesson I need to be reminded of myself. Writing can take us on some weird, w...