I had the pleasure this quarter of working with Professor Mark Moritz and his Anthropology 620 class. Dr. Moritz centered his class writing assignments on producing a wiki on the topic of the class, which was hunter-gatherer societies. I came into the class twice, and I’ll divide my comments for each session into two posts. The first session addressed how wikis might fit into disciplinary attitudes toward writing and knowledge production. (more…)

An attendee of several of our workshops, Mariam Tumeo, connected us with Professor Larry Feth, who invited me to speak to his graduate pro-seminar about Writing Across the Curriculum and technology. (more…)

We were invited to do a workshop for the sociology department on “how to respond to culturally insensitive student papers.” The GTA coordinator for the department related how GTAs were unsure how to approach, comment on, and grade student papers that were racist, sexist, or homophobic, rather than focusing objectively on a topic using sociological methodologies. (more…)

Professor Tom Nelson invited me to give a presentation to his Political Science class to talk about strategies for approaching one of his assignments. (more…)

Dr. Robert Kelly had me join his class recently to talk to his students about writing long research papers (20-25 pages). (more…)