Re-vising and re-visioning
I just re-read Nancy Sommers’ Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers in which she examined the revisions of...
Queer and gendered language
I just read David L. Wallace and Jonathan Alexander’s article Queer rhetorical agency. I’m still digesting the content and it’s clear...
The red pen
In Chapter 5 of Engaging Ideas, Bean discusses addressing issues of grammar and correctness in student writing, noting that “whatever the...
Threshold concepts
Switching gears to a different book that focuses on teaching writing: Naming What We Know; in Chapter 6 Heidi Estrem examines the...
Caring comments
In Chapter 16, Bean addresses the extremely difficult (in my opinion) task of writing comments on students’ papers. I would prefer to...
Mixing Critical Thinking and Group Work
In Chapter 10, Bean advocates “goal oriented use of small groups” (p. 184) which follows certain criteria: The teacher presents a...