Bits Week in Review for November 21
November 21, 2011
Catch up on your reading with this round-up of posts from last week on teaching composition and rhetoric from Bedford Bits, on teaching English language arts at the secondary level in High School Bits, and on teaching literature and creative writing from Bedford Lit Bits.
- Traci Gardner (Bits) shares some resources for teaching students about academic research and how to avoid plagiarism in Fighting Plagiarism in High School and College.
- Nancy Sommers (Between the Drafts) asks, "How many of you assign a traditional research paper? Now—how many are questioning its role in FYC?" in her post, Thinking about The Research Paper.
- In his Behind the Textbook series, Barclay Barrios (Bits) discusses The Question of Questions.
- Liz Wardle (Bits) shares a Call for Proposals for the Inaugural Issue of the Writing about Writing Newsletter.
- Jack Solomon (Bits) Jack Solomon takes a look at the Occupy Wall Street movement and the connections between popular culture and the New Left in The Politics of Popular Culture.
- Andrea Lunsford (Bits) talks about visiting and helping with writing centers in Hey, Let’s Start a Writing Center!
- Michael Kardos (Lit Bits) talks about Association of Writers & Writing Programs’s cancellation of pedagogy forums in Pedagogy Papers: Gone But Not Forgotten.
- Holly Pappas (Bits) wonders about the role of argument in first year composition in Arguing with Myself.
- Ben Bunting (Lit Bits) gets students to think critically and participate on a much deeper level. Learn more in Teaching Literature: Student Contexts and Discussion Openers.
A Few Extra Links
- Head on over to Andrea Lunsford’s new Facebook fan page and “Like” it!
- Mark your calendar for the Tour of TYCA, a taste of each TYCA regional. Online launch: November 25.
- Check out Writer’s Help, a complete online reference that makes it easy for students to find answers to their questions about writing, and Like Writer’s Help at http://www.facebook.com/Writers.Help.
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