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Beyond the “Bells and Whistles”: Toward a Visual Rhetoric for Teachers’ Digital Portfolios.
Beyond the “Bells and Whistles”: Toward a Visual Rhetoric for Teachers’ Digital Portfolios. Author(s): Troy HicksSource: English Education, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Apr., 2005), pp. 200-222 Published by: National Council of Teachers of EnglishStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40173191 Based on what I’ve read of the excerpt detailed above, It would seem that even teachers need to take…
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on Race and Writing assessment
This Post is based on, “Race and Writing assessment” by Valerie Balestar, more specifically Chapter 4, How Writing Rubrics Fail. It was originally a practicum journal entry that I wrote during my Writing Mentor internship. I Found this portion of the reading interesting, “Because of their powerful influence in instruction, rubrics announce forcefully how we…
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Processes and Protocols in Online Tutoring
“Processes and Protocols in Online Tutoring” from A Tutor’s Guide (Cooper, Bui, & Riker) Online tutoring has permanently reshaped writing centers, requiring tutors to adapt their approaches to remain effective. Key takeaways include: References A tutor’s Guide – Protocols and Process in Online Tutoring, George Cooper, Kara Bui, and Linda Riker The Article “Flexibility in…
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About responding to student writing
The Article “About responding to student writing” by Peter Elbow, Attempts to establish guidelines regarding the critique of student papers. One of the ideas I really liked was, in essence, to ask the student to write about writing. This allows students to introspect and begin the process of metacognition in a safe and healthy way…
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The Literacy Narrative
In this week’s reading, we got exposed to the idea of the literacy narrative. The Literacy Narrative can be thought of as a students relationship with literacy and education as a whole. The story one tells themselves about education, and whether one is aware of it or not, this literacy narrative has deep, far reaching…
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Oxford Guide for Writing Tutors
In Chapter 3 of the Oxford Guide for Writing Tutors by Fitzgerald and Ianetta, we learnt that revision is not simply a matter of correcting surface-level errors. Writing is framed as a deeper engagement with a writer’s ideas, the structure of said ideas in annotative form, and the intent which fuels them. This reading frames…
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Hello world!
Welcome to my teaching portfolio. I’d like to take the time to say that as a Writer, Thinker and mentor, I try not to encourage Dichotomous thinking, this is the trap of absolutism; black or white, good or bad sort of thinking. I think this way of thinking is a very useful cognitive shortcut, but…
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