Taking Notes from Textbooks
If you’re looking for a good note-taking system, consider this visual variation on the Cornell two- or three-column system.
Author: Eric Drown
Patchwriting as a Phase of Development
“Patchwriting” is the term writing researcher Rebecca Moore Howard (1993) uses to describe the incomplete paraphrase strategy that writers just emerging in a field often find themselves using to make it seem as if they are more knowledgeable than they are. It’s not just student writers who patchwrite. Howard reports on the work of Miguel Read More …
Metacognitive Reading Tools
Everyone gets stuck once-in-a-while when reading something new or complicated. What matters is how you work to resolve difficulties in reading comprehension. Readers who take a metacognitive approach to reading difficulties ultimately understand more and can do more with their reading. Here are two tools from Schoenbach, Greenleaf, and Murphy’s Reading Apprenticeship approach that can Read More …
On Reading as a Writer Response
In Habits of the Creative Mind, you read and marked-up “On Reading as a Writer” with an eye towards understanding how experienced writers, like Susan Sontag, read. In a 5 minute comment on this post, describe and explain some of the strategies that experienced writers, like Sontag, use to get the most out of their reading time.
Previewing Gee (or any other reading)
Emerging writers sometimes struggle to make sense of texts they need to write about. Often, the problem is that they read passively, by which I mean without activating their curiosity, attentiveness, openness, engagement, and connection-making habits of mind, and without purpose or expectations. This can happen when they are unfamiliar with the topic, or are Read More …
Amphibious Tiny House Project at #UNE
#UNE students looking for a challenge can join the Amphibious Tiny House Project. pic.twitter.com/WwSqhrLKqg — UNE SASC (@UNE_SASC) October 4, 2016
How to Prepare for Your Learning Objectives Conference
Over the next week or so, we’ll be meeting one-on-one for a half-hour conference to discuss your progress towards the course learning objectives. All conferences will be held in my SASC office, room 4. You won’t need to check in for these conferences. Find the conference schedule at the bottom of this post. Learning Objectives Read More …
ePortfolio Help – Menus and Widgets
We hit a speed bump today in class when we realized that some WordPress Themes don’t automatically include menus, or include items in menus. So you may need to do some work to enable readers to find your literacy narrative on your ePortfolio. If your theme already includes a menu, you may need to add Read More …
Writing as a Recursive Process 1
Course Learning Objective: Writing as a Recursive Process – 20% Reading is part of the writing process, and writing is part of the reading process. The iterative, recursive nature of the writing process means that careful reading of both one’s sources and one’s own writing are regular practices for one who approaches mastery of this Read More …
