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What went down on Wednesday?
Image via Wikipedia Seriously cheesy title today. Seriously. Sorry, I couldn’t help myself. I won’t let it happen again. Well, I’m not making any promises. OK, “So, what did go down on Wednesday...
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Teaching the five-paragraph essay
Can't you just hear Hemingway mumbling about how bad first drafts suck? | Image via Wikipedia Yesterday, my Written Communication students workshopped their very first essays of the semester. I don’t...
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Time to write another essay
Wanna write an essay with me? What would you write about? (No, that's not me in the picture!) | Day 34 - Essay and Notes (Photo credit: Auntie P) My Written Communication students are writing a booklet...
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2012 Sigma Tau Delta induction
Sigma Tau Delta (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Yesterday, I officially joined the International English Honor Society at the 2012 Sigma Tau Delta induction ceremony which took place in the beautiful...
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Can you do me a huge favor?
Would you mind taking a quick survey about a blog? Earlier this semester, I wrote a blog post about the new blogs that my Communication Technologies students were creating. Well, they’ve been hard at...
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Wednesday Writing Prompt: The Greatest Longing
What is the greatest longing of your main character’s soul? | English: ink and charcoal on paper (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Quite some time ago, I mentioned that I would be posting writing prompts for...
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Free-writing is hard.
My keyboard foils my free-writing every time. | English: Screenshot from Linux software KTouch. An image of the Home Row keys for touch typing. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I’m in a whining mood today,...
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Criticism: How to be constructive rather than destructive
How do you provide criticism to a student without destroying his or her sense of self-worth? | English: Students working with a teacher at Albany Senior High School, New Zealand. (Photo credit:...
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Write on the World wins Sigma Tau Delta Individual Blog Award
Guess what, everyone – You are officially reading an award-winning blog! This morning, I found out Write on the World won the Sigma Tau Delta – International English Honor Society Individual Blog Award...
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Facing the fiery hells of feedback
I am only sharing this picture because it is cool. | Example 1. Optical feedback (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Feedback is so depressing because it always means more work. It doesn’t matter who you are, or...
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My Final Paper | Teaching Life Writing as a Life Skill: Normalizing the...
I finally finished the class I was taking this semester and turned in my 22-page final paper on Thursday. Yay! While I shared several of my earlier papers here on my blog throughout the semester, this...
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