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The Psychological Disadvantages of Drop-in Online Consultations
The Psychological Disadvantages of Drop-in Online Consultations By: Bonnie Devet, College of CharlestonMollie Bowman, Pennsylvania State UniversityAlex Tate-Moffo, College of Charleston The above reading details several disadvantages associated with using Zoom as writing Mentors to conduct asynchronous writing mentorship sessions. “When working in person, consultants employ silence, waiting for students to process a question and…
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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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