I’ve made quite a number of visual pages for my Technical Writing classes, though I haven’t managed to post any for a while. Today I finished one on how to integrated figures, tables, screenshots, charts, and photos. Students frequently have…
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Tengrrl’s Do’s and Don’ts for Workplace Writing
I’m busy making fancy resources for my Technical Writing course this term—but I haven’t gotten them posted and we’re already on Week 2! So here’s a list of Do’s and Don’ts for Workplace Writing. Or more accurately perhaps, a list…
Academic Writing vs. Technical Communication Infographic
I’ve created an infographic to accompany the course objectives idea in my previous post. The goal is to help students understand the differences between academic writing and the writing they will do in the workplace.
Academic v. Technical Writing Activity
If you’ve taught technical writing, you know that students are endlessly confused by the differences between academic writing expectations and technical writing expectations. It’s not especially surprising. Teachers pound margins and labeling and long paragraphs and essay standards into their…
A Policy for the Groups I Want
The dreaded hour has come: Folks in my Tech Writing course have reported group members who they cannot contact or who are not responding and other group members who are not contributing to the projects. Now I have to figure…
The Challenge of Ethics Discussions
For the third week of Technical Writing, our template focuses on ethical considerations, asking students to respond to two online discussions. One of the discussions asks students to find the code of ethics for their field and then discuss what…
Visual Outline of Group Work for the Fall
Today is the last day of the second week of classes. I got my groups set up yesterday, using the Group Preferences Form that I developed a few years ago. I ended up aiming for five people per group, but…
Wrapping Things Up
After writing yesterday’s post, I read up on group assessment, reviewed some materials on contract grading, and revisited some information on ungrading. I’ve been collecting references in Zotero for years now, so it was relatively easy to pull up the…
Temporary Signs of Progress
On Friday, I ordered Ellen Carillo’s The Hidden Inequities in Labor-Based Contract Grading (2021). It arrived today, and I read it quickly. It’s a short but very useful book. I was especially pleased to have some of the questions that…
A Tentative Effort Expectations Contract Chart
I’ve spent the day reading (and rereading) on contract grading, including all of these resources: Inoue, Asao B. (2019). Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom. The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado. https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/labor/…