Jonathan Jay Taylor
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The History of “Innovation”
There I was, thinking myself so clever for coming up with “new” ways to grade papers. No wonder that new ways to handle the paper load, advances in efficiency in the production of response, have a long history in the teaching of college composition. The use of lay readers (called “reading assistants” at Vassar before … Continue reading
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In a recent newsletter, I wrote about using Adobe Connect Pro web conferencing software to hold conferences with students in my online classes. One burden in this practice is scheduling. I started this summer with 60 students in my online classes and scheduling and managing that many conferences became a chore. I used FerrisConnect’s Groups … Continue reading
For about two years now, I’ve been touting the value of the grading conference in teaching writing to anyone who will listen. I’ve found that meeting students one-on-one to grade their work, in addition to the more traditional “draft” conferences has had enormous positive effects on my students’ work and my own work as well. … Continue reading
“What Work Is” is a favorite poem of mine. It’s by Philip Levine and it appears in the book of the same name, published by Knopf in 1991, which won the National Book Award. http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/levine/what_work_is.php I often teach it and read it aloud to students. Like a lot of Levine’s work, it is conversational and … Continue reading
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