{"id":3581,"date":"2011-11-28T01:43:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T06:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=3581"},"modified":"2011-11-28T01:46:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T06:46:57","slug":"bits-week-in-review-for-november-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/28\/bits-week-in-review-for-november-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Bits Week in Review for November 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catch up on your reading with this round-up of posts from last week on teaching composition and rhetoric from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bedfordstmartins.com\/bits\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bedford Bits<\/a>, on teaching English language arts at the secondary level in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bedfordstmartins.com\/highschoolbits\/\" target=\"_blank\">High School Bits<\/a>, and on  teaching literature and creative writing from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bedfordstmartins.com\/litbits\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bedford Lit Bits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Susan Naomi Bernstein (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bedfordstmartins.com\/bits\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bits<\/a>) reflects on libraries and how they often remain utilitarian rather than imaginative in <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/7Belp\" title=\"Libraries: Claiming Imaginative Space for Basic Writing\" target=\"_blank\">Libraries: Claiming Imaginative Space for Basic Writing<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Steve Bernhardt (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bedfordstmartins.com\/bits\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bits<\/a>) discusses teaching <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/7CzfA\" title=\"&ldquo;The&rdquo; Research Paper\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;The&rdquo; Research Paper<\/a>&mdash;or do you teach &ldquo;a research paper&rdquo; or &ldquo;a researched paper&rdquo;? <\/li>\n<li>Catherine Pierce  (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bedfordstmartins.com\/litbits\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lit Bits<\/a>) encourages students not to let the idea of writing  get in the way of writing in <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/7CzvL\">Writing a Poem by Not Writing a Poem<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Adrian Arancibia   (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bedfordstmartins.com\/litbits\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lit Bits<\/a>) gives <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/7CzDR\" title=\"Student Poets Some Advice for Reading Aloud\" target=\"_blank\">Student Poets Some Advice for Reading Aloud<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Traci Gardner (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bedfordstmartins.com\/bits\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bits<\/a>) considers  how to get more robust feedback on course evaluations in <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/7CzTi\" title=\"Supplementing Your Online Course Evaluation\" target=\"_blank\">Supplementing Your Online Course Evaluation<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li> Barclary Barrios shares five favorite essays from his Emerging textbook in <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/7Gu2a\" target=\"_blank\">Behind the Textbook: My Faves<\/a>.  \n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>A Few Extra Links <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Head on over to <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/7iLBP\" target=\"_blank\">Andrea Lunsford&#8217;s new Facebook fan page<\/a> and &ldquo;Like&rdquo; it!<\/li>\n<li>Happy 15th Anniversary to the Two-Year College English Association (or TYCA). The <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/7GByL\" target=\"_blank\">Tour of TYCA<\/a> is underway!<\/li>\n<li>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com\/ebooks\/helphandbook.php\" title=\"Writer&rsquo;s Help\" target=\"_blank\">Writer&rsquo;s Help<\/a>, a complete online reference that makes it easy for students to find answers to their questions about writing, and Like Writer&rsquo;s Help at <a title=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Writers.Help\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Writers.Help\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Writers.Help<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For regular updates from Bedford Bits, be sure to sign up for <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/7GBTt\" title=\"Ink'd In newsletter sign-up\" target=\"_blank\">the Ink\u2019d In newsletter<\/a> (and other resources), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bedford.st.martins\" title=\"Bedford\/St. Martin's on Facebook\" target=\"_blank\">like us on Facebook<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/BedfordBits\" title=\"Bedford Bits on Twitter\" target=\"_blank\">follow us on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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