L2 writer in a first-year writing class: Activating the support network

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 275-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Knoblock ◽  
Sarah Gorman
Keyword(s):  
Support Network ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Writing ◽  
Writing Class

scholarly journals Asynchronizing with the Framework: Reflections on the process of creating an asynchronous library assignment for a first-year writing class

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (11) ◽  
pp. 530
Author(s):  
B. Grantham Aldred
Keyword(s):  
Online Instruction ◽  
Course Delivery ◽  
First Year ◽  
Library Instruction ◽  
First Year Writing ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Hybrid Course ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
The University

As many of yours surely have, my institution, the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC), moved at great speed to adapt to the need for online instruction this fall. This has proved a challenge for library instruction, to put it mildly. Our library instruction has almost exclusively been in-person, on-site, and live, and the switch to online and hybrid course delivery has made all of those aspects difficult, especially when it comes to courses offered asynchronously, where students engage with course content at different points in time within a given timeframe.

scholarly journals Teaching for Critical Consciousness During the Student Debt Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Bruno
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Paulo Freire ◽  
First Year ◽  
Student Debt ◽  
First Year Writing ◽  
Writing Class

These teaching notes describe one educator’s experience facilitating dialogue around student debt and college cost in the first-year writing class. Rooted in the work of Paulo Freire, particular attention is paid to the role of critical pedagogy and meaning-making practices in these complex political and economic contexts. 

scholarly journals What Can Students Tell Us about “Skill Building” in Canadian Writing Studies?

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 314-322
Author(s):  
Christopher Eaton
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Research ◽  
Writing Pedagogy ◽  
Writing Studies ◽  
First Year ◽  
Writing Teachers ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
First Year Writing ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
The One ◽  
Skill Building

This paper comes from narrative research that I did with ten former students who reflected on their experiences with writing both in a first-year writing class and beyond. As the participants and I worked together, it became clear that there was the tension between the way they described process and skill building in writing pedagogy. They emphasized that process and scaffolding were integral to their learning, but they equally emphasized the one-off, skills-oriented components of our work. Many conversations in Canadian writing studies have focused on dismantling or resisting the skills narrative, but the tension in the participants’ responses prompted me to think about this differently. The paper explores the tension between skills and process to argue that perhaps skill building has its place in our contexts, and that we as writing teachers and scholars must think about it differently in order to articulate the value of the work that we do. If we can use the skills-oriented components of our courses to open spaces to discuss the less quantifiable elements of our work that often get overlooked (i.e., scaffolding), then we may put ourselves in a better position to advocate for increased resources and funding.

scholarly journals With Open Eyes: Returning to an Academic Life

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Bonnie Lynn Nish
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
First Year ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Frustration Level

When asked to find a visual expression of my writing process for a first year PhD writing class, I saw a chance to unblock whatever was making it difficult for me to write. Searching for a meaningful way into my story, my ideas were reflected back through images of eyes – the eyes of strangers, my own eyes, and finally through the eyes of those who cared about me. Four years after a Mild Traumatic Brain Injury impacted my life, I returned to pursue an academic career. Symptoms that I thought had been put to rest were once again haunting me and my frustration level was escalating. Trying to find my way back into an academic existence was not an easy journey. The visual inquiry into eyes became a door through which I was able to gain back my words. Using poetic and narrative inquiry allowed for a further opening of releasing obstructions.

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