Show, Don’t Tell
Fiction writing is plagued with scores of advice excerpted out of their context and misinterpreted by well-meaning authors hoping to hone their skills. Among this advice, “show, don’t tell” is one of the most prevalent. …
A Conversation with Myself
Having now taught my first class in composition at Kennesaw State University, it is almost unsettling to look back at my philosophy from a year ago. As I continue to acquire new experiences as an …
Scaffolded Assignment RAIMS
The final leg of my work in examining threshold concepts and strategies for learning instruction led into the creation of an assignment that not only pays respect to ENGL 1101 learning outcomes but actively considers …
Thresholds in Practice
In the process of examining the concepts described in Naming What We Know, I became more cognizant of some of the fundamental principles of writing and the teaching of it. But there has to be …
An Informal Plea for the Reassessment of Diversity
Classrooms on all levels are expected to maintain fundamental principles of inclusion and equality in those academic spaces. Anything less risks alienating individuals whose identities don’t overlap with what has historically been a privileged demographic. I …
Cognitive Inception
“In writing, the misapplication of habituated practices often occurs among novice writers, such as those who are trained throughout high school to write five-paragraph-style essays for standardized tests. Placed in a new situation where he …
The Future Imperfect
The draft is complete, and so it’s put to rest and done. The thing incorporeal–the thoughts and ideas that coalesced into a tangible, readable entity–have been given life outside the author. There they lie on …
Nuance and Identity in Writing
Writing is informed by prior experience. “Obviously,” you’re probably thinking, and you wouldn’t be wrong to think it. That statement seems too easy to say, too undeniably true to even need to be said. But …
Writing, Thinking, Knowing
The author sits in solitude, buried deep within a chamber of his own thoughts, and within that place, he draws from the pinnacle of his creativity. In this act of creation, the author is alone. …
Genre as Fields of Study
Literary genres are not commonly thought of as fields of study. Despite this, I would assert just that. Hart-Davidson defines genre as “a form of discourse recognizable as a common set of structural or thematic …
