In Effective Classroom Management
September 7, 2020 Carmen Noel Eichman-Dorr
I teach research-based Composition II courses every semester. My students learn information literacy, look up academic, peer-reviewed journals, create and correctly structure works cited pages, annotate bibliographies, learn rhetorical…
Most professors would admit that they’ve found themselves frustrated when grading papers. Yes, sometimes those frustrations might stem from students ignoring your clear, strategic, and explicit instructions, but more…
Often the articles highlighted in The Teaching Professor are examples of pedagogical scholarship that could beneficially be done in many fields. That is the case with this piece on…
April 7, 2014 Heather Jones
Most students in my developmental writing classes claim they “hate” writing. It’s a familiar refrain. But, it is less about “hate” and more about a lack of preparation in…
March 10, 2014 Lynda Haas PhD
I’ve been teaching composition at the college level since 1984, and have had the pleasure of working with students at several different institution types: a community college, a private…
September 19, 2013 Elizabeth Betsy Lasley EdD
Teaching to students’ strengths and interests can promote creative and critical thinking. But requesting creative responses often engenders the exact opposite of creativity. “Just tell me what you want…
In Effective Teaching Strategies
July 12, 2013 John Sturtridge
I mostly teach basic technical writing, and I face the same problem that confronts many of us who teach writing. It’s hard enough getting students to do the assignments,…
In Effective Teaching Strategies
March 11, 2013 Barbara Barney Nelson PhD and Scarlet Clouse
Breathes there a professor of any subject with soul so dead who never to himself hath said, “Today’s undergraduates are hopeless at research!” (apologies to Sir Walter Scott). It…
In Effective Teaching Strategies
November 26, 2012 Deborah Miller Fox
One of the ongoing challenges for my composition students is the task of narrowing a broad, generalized topic into a more particular, focused topic for a short research essay.…
In Effective Teaching Strategies
November 6, 2012 Maryellen Weimer, PhD
The Writing Across the Curriculum movement has successfully introduced faculty across disciplines to a variety of writing, including very informal writing that faculty do not necessarily read or grade.…
