Many years ago, while teaching composition with a (relatively) small group of honors students, a student wrote me an email that forever changed the way … Read More ›
Category: Composition & College Writing
By Christina Katopodis, PhD This paper was delivered on Thursday, Jan 4, 2024 at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention. “Soma” comes from the Greek … Read More ›
We have been schooled to believe that students require external motivators—rewards like good grades, consequences like suspension—to incentivize them to be “good” students who study … Read More ›
This essay draws on my experiences teaching in the fall of 2020 and serving as associate director of the City University of New York’s Transformative … Read More ›
This post was originally published on HASTAC.org on September 2, 2020. Read the original post here. In this first assignment of the year, inspired by … Read More ›
My 8am class has turned into a hotbed of burning questions and research. How this happened since my last post about the grueling 8am time slot, I … Read More ›
This is a story for the frustrated College Writing student, the slow reader, the one who thinks she’s bad at writing because she ever struggles and … Read More ›
“The vast majority of our professors…used the classroom to enact rituals of control that were about domination and the unjust exercise of power. In these … Read More ›
In my second-level composition course, students have the option of doing extra credit, due the day we finish reading Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. … Read More ›
First year instructors are often told to scaffold assignments. Scaffolding, loosely defined, is the process of building cumulative assignments from “low-stakes” to “high-stakes” in a … Read More ›
