Q-C-Q (Quotation-Comment-Question)
Here’s a great prewriting strategy to help you dig into your sources, generate ideas, and make connections. Q-C-Q
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Assess Your Fluency in College Level Study Skills
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 …
What Have You Learned in College Reading and Writing I and II?
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 …
Proofread for Stigmatizing Sentence-Level Errors
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 …
The Matthew Effect
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 …
How to Get the Most Out of Studying
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.
Questions About Literacy Narratives
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 …
Portfolio Elements
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 …
What Have You Learned?
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 …
