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NEW AT JUST CAN’T HELP WRITING: Overbudget on “To be”? Use “Absolutes”

Use “absolutes” to cut back on “to be” verbsscissors3 in progressive tenses, and build your voice as well.

AT COLLEGE COMPOSITION WEEKLY:

CCW banner 300Steve Lamos argues in the March College English that job security for teaching-track writing faculty will remain elusive if administrators and other powerful stakeholders continue to see the emotional labor such teachers perform as “unimportant, uninteresting, and ultimately unworthy of attention.” He offers concrete steps toward combating “negative affect.”

THIS WEEK AT COLLEGE COMPOSITION WEEKLY: Anderson et al. in RTE

I’ve summarized the large-scale study by Paul Anderson, Chris M. Anson, Robert M. Gonyea, and Charles Paine from Research in the Teaching of EnglishCollege Composition Weekly Banner that was featured in Inside Higher Ed on Dec. 4. Comments on the IHE piece raised questions about the methodology of the study; I’ve tried to clarify some of the procedures and claims. Please feel free to comment on these and any other issues!

NEW AT COLLEGE COMPOSITION WEEKLY: PLACEMENT AND REMEDIATION

BOOKS SUCCESSHassel, Holly, and Joanne Baird Giordano. “The Blurry Borders of College Writing: Remediation and the Assessment of Student Readiness.” College English 78.1 (2015): 56-80. Print.

Holly Hassel and Joanne Baird Giordano advocate for the use of multiple assessment measures rather than standardized test scores in decisions about placing entering college students in remedial or developmental courses.College Composition Weekly Banner