Brugman, Destiny F2018 Pedagogy Research Project ENG 513
Author: Destiny B.
The End
I feel like saying writing studies as a whole is miss this is a complete lie, but I can’t help but feel nagged over and over again that I feel like the thing missing from this field, the thing that is not visible, is the people who exist within it. Writing center scholarship is taking […]
“Composing Activist Research” by Stuart Blythe
Blythe, Stuart. “Composing Activist Research.” Practicing Research in Writing Studies: Reflexive and Ethically Responsible Research, Hampton Press Inc, 2012. Print. 275-290. Summary Stuart Blythe discusses the different issues and elements that sometimes arise when trying to do activist research in regards to writing. He outlines many issues that come along with researching using […]
Identity-based activities, brave and safe spaces, audience awareness discovery draft
Research question: Does the introduction of identity-based activities and conversations in the FYW classroom lead to a classroom that can be more aptly navigated as a brave and safe space? Does the introduction of identity-based activities and conversations in the FYW classroom lead to more awareness of the rhetorical situation of a written piece? As […]
Please let me be your advocate…
I read this and was immediately rejecting of the idea of being an adversary, because I don’t want to be an adversary to my students… I also wouldn’t want to call myself their partner either. To me, I’d prefer to be their advocate. Somebody who has there back and will support them, but is more […]
work balance and feelings of earned work time
The most recent “toxic” behavior I’ve dealt with in my class has been students not paying attention to each other’s projects and trying to work on their classwork in class. When another pair of students is at the front of the room or I am at the front of the room and the pairs think […]
Student B, Emotions
Hi, Student B, Thank you so much for sharing your writing with me. I really like the way you took a specific idea, gratention, and focused on it throughout your assignment. I thought you did a nice job introducing Mike Rose’s article, in a lot of ways this helped center me in the ideas that […]
Ok, but like, why?
I don’t think my students think of themselves as writers. I’ve always thought of myself as a writer, but I know professional people who write and have PhDs in writing studies related fields who don’t think of themselves as writers and none of my students have revealed themselves as believing themselves to be writers. I […]
Mattering, Struggling, and Whatever else there is…
If I’m being honest, I don’t know what makes my students struggle when they write—not really. The only things I hear about is when they aren’t clear on instructions, but a lot of that feels like something they’re just not paying as much attention to the prompts. They want a clear-cut “answered” way of doing […]
Idealistic? I don’t know her.
I don’t believe in being idealistic. I think it’s silly. I live for the chaos, the mess, the stress, the disaster—at least when it comes to writing, teaching, etc.. As far as my ENG 101 class is concerned, I want them to start learning about themselves. I want them to start learning about writing and […]
when what matters in the world matters to the person
I can’t speak for all of my students, but many of my students are aware of the world around them. Sometimes, they’ll mention local, national, or global news sometimes in the context of class and sometimes when they’re getting off track in group work. There are, however, a handful of students who are very aware […]
“Reflections in Online Writing Instruction: Pathways to Professional Development” by Bourelle et al.
Bourelle, Tiffany, et al. “Reflections in Online Writing Instruction: Pathways to Professional Development.” Karios: A Journal of Rhetoric, 15 Aug. 2015, http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/20.1/praxis/bourelle-et-al/index.html. Summary The article “Reflections in Online Writing Instruction: Pathways to Professional Development” is a webtext that “maps” out or explores the ways online writing instruction (OWI) can be used and can incorporate graduate […]
intersections of our lives, my shifting identity, and what I decide to share
In Krista Ratcliffe’s Rhetorical Listening Theory: Identification, Gender, Whiteness, she discusses something called a “dysfunctional silence” which centers around the idea that a silence (of voices in different contexts) is no longer “merely the absence of speaking voice(s); it is also the absence of hearing ears” (85). “Silence” or the absence of voices is something […]
“Theory In/To Practice: Addressing the Everyday Language of Oppression in the Writing Center” by Mandy Suhr-Sytsma
Suhr-Sytsma, Mandy. “Theory In/To Practice: Addressing the Everyday Language of Oppression in the Writing Center.” Writing Center Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, 2011, Web. Summary The focus of this article is to bring attention to the ways that language in the day-to-day work of writing centers can be oppressive and try to give those who […]
Participatory Hospitality and Brave/Safe Spaces in my thoughts about the classroom
What I hold at the core of my beliefs about my classroom and try to bring into my classroom is that it is a place that we create together—I’m kind of pulling from the ideas of a community of practice that I was so entrenched in at my old WC. Writing center scholar, Michele Eodice, […]
My Deliberate Physicality and The Ways I Don’t Notice My Students
In the last semester of my undergrad, my public rhetorics class had an assignment where we had to do something public and then analyze the rhetorical moves we were making when doing something publicly (it was a little divergent from the definition of a public purposefully, just in case anyone is concerned about the definitely […]
Who is the classroom for, though?
I think this new question we’re being asked to contemplate is something I don’t necessarily have the bits and pieces to figure out. At the institution I did my undergrad at, there were constant conversations of the way that our version of ENG 101 enhanced the experiences of students and prepared them for work later […]
Online Teaching, Standardized Testing, Whose Job Is It Anyway?
When looking through the table of contents, the selection that caught my eye was “Anyone can teach an Online Writing Course” by Beth Hewett. I’ve read a book by Hewett before, so I was curious to think about Online Writing Instruction (OWI) in relation to the teaching of an online class instead of my experiences […]
Fish Tank Social System
Side note: The first thing this prompt made me think of was an article I read in my undergrad called, “The Ecology of Writing” by Marilyn Cooper. I don’t remember much about it besides it relating to this in a small way for me. I don’t know much about ecosystems, or science in general, as […]
Few Expectations
I became close with many faculty members at Montana State University, where I did my undergrad, and many of them would tell me some of what I could expect from teaching or going to graduate school after I’d officially been accepted to Western. In the months leading up to actually starting the quarter, my mentors […]