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Public Scholars & Public Scholarship
In reading Jennifer’s first blog entry in our reflection on public scholarly acts I’m reminded how much our scholarly identities impact our what we do in the classroom as teachers. Although we have scholarship that discusses how and why students…
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| November 20 2011 | CommentsPosted in
Public Learning & Identity
I want to start by thanking @rhetorjjb for her twitter post that kicked off the need to do this reflecting. @rhetorjjb and I have decided we want to explore this topic a bit more. Based on the topic itself, we decided…
...Continued | October 11 2011 | CommentsPosted in
What is the point of scholarly work if not to help others understand and remember it? First and foremost, I am a teacher! It’s my job, my calling, to help others recognize, recall, interpret, exemplify, classify, summarize, infer, compare, and explain themselves and the world around them.
Vonnegut’s comparison of doing and being via famous quotes - priceless!
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Developing a Writing Certificate Program
I admit it, I thought we could produce a proposal for an Academic Writing Certificate pretty quickly...and we did during the 2007-8 academic year. At the beginning of Fall 2008 we took our proposal to the English Instructional Council (EIC). Our…
...Continued | June 20 2010 | CommentsPosted in MCC