Agency… Rewriting the Future 10 Feb 201515 Feb 2015 A recent article in the The New York Times ("Writing Your Way to Happiness") talked about the research by psychologists such as Timothy Wilson who maintain that writing can lead…
Uncategorized Yes, But Are You Having Fun? 3 Oct 2013 Irv Peckham, who teaches writing at LSU and whose work I have always admired, stirred up a lively conversation on the WPA-L email list this week (is an email list…
Pedagogy… The simple art of listening to – and caring about – what students say 4 Mar 2012 Time for a bit of rant today. I was at a local conference on teaching recently, doing my dog-and-pony show about how students engage with digital media outside the classroom…
Pedagogy… The Two-Way Bridge (Part 1) 14 Jun 201116 Jun 2011 If I have problems with the metaphor of popular culture being conceived of as a "bridge" from less worthy literacy practices to more valuable and acceptable academic literacies (see below),…
