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Reading and Writing are Superpowers*
Find out if you have college level study skills, or whether you might need to make some changes in the way you approach learning. Click here to take the University of Central Florida’s Study Skills Inventory If your results suggest you have some work to do to improve your study skills, visit Tutortrac to schedule Read More …
As I look back over this year, I’m amazed at the list of reading and writing strategies students have practiced. Here it is: Writing Process: Prewriting strategies Drafting strategies: idea-generating drafts, architectural outlines, reverse outlining, slideshow/Pecha Kucha drafting Revision strategies (global) Editing strategies (local) Proofreading strategies Remediation strategies Introduction strategies Conclusion strategies / more conclusion Read More …
When you proofread, read your writing aloud, backwards – from the last sentence of the last paragraph to the first sentence of the first paragraph. This disrupts your mind’s desire to attend to the meaning of your words and allows you to focus on the correctness of your language. Pay most attention to stigmatizing errors, Read More …
In “The Matthew Effect” chapter of Outliers, journalist Malcolm Gladwell argues that success is not always a function of exceptional individual talent or effort. Instead, he reveals, external factors beyond the control of individuals contribute to success. While Gladwell uses junior hockey to illustrate his argument, he is making a broader argument about success in order Read More …
There are some great videos here on the implications of brain science for studying. Here’s the first in the series. Find links to the rest of the series here.
What are literacy narratives (beyond: an assignment often given in writing classes)? For what reasons do people write them (beyond: they’ve been assigned to)? For what reasons might people read them? What are literacy narratives evidence of? What kinds of things can we learn about by treating sets of literacy narratives as data or evidence? How Read More …
As you think about how to structure your ePortfolio, think about how to display your emerging identity as an academic writer in a way that might make sense to a viewer. As you reflect on your learning this semester, remember that you are in the middle of a learning arc. There is no expectation that you Read More …
Please help me understand how you see your progress this semester by writing some short reflective narratives about your experience of the class. Please make it an honest self-assessment, describe your strengths and what you still need to work on, and the one or two most important things you’ll take away from this class. Please reflect Read More …
Unlike the TRIAC paragraph structure, which starts with a claim about a topic, considers evidence, and then explores significance, the Observation-Implication-Conclusion (OIC) pattern starts with evidence, moves to significance, and then draws conclusions. Click here for a narrative version of OIC. Use TRIAC when you think your reader will tentatively accept your initial claim before Read More …
