Bits Week in Review for November 28

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.

• Susan Naomi Bernstein (Bits) reflects on libraries and how they often remain utilitarian rather than imaginative in Libraries: Claiming Imaginative Space for Basic Writing.
• Steve Bernhardt (Bits) discusses teaching “The” Research Paper—or do you teach “a research paper” or “a researched paper”?
• Catherine Pierce (Lit Bits) encourages students not to let the idea of writing get in the way of writing in Writing a Poem by Not Writing a Poem.
• Adrian Arancibia (Lit Bits) gives Student Poets Some Advice for Reading Aloud.
• Traci Gardner (Bits) considers how to get more robust feedback on course evaluations in Supplementing Your Online Course Evaluation.
• Barclary Barrios shares five favorite essays from his Emerging textbook in Behind the Textbook: My Faves.

A Few Extra Links

• Head on over to Andrea Lunsford’s new Facebook fan page and “Like” it!
• Happy 15th Anniversary to the Two-Year College English Association (or TYCA). The Tour of TYCA is underway!
• 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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