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In our pedagogy courses, we toss around the terms “instructional objectives” and “course learning outcomes” like they are unquestionable cornerstones of classroom work. We might be proud of our lesson plan templates, with their four-bullet objectives heading up the daily agenda. But how often do our students make a clear connection between our course instructional objectives or learning outcomes and the actual work they are
The title of this post is a play on words. I know, it’s not immediately evident, but this wordplay has just been swimming through my head in the last few weeks. The Tower of Babel is a biblical story about power, and about language. And lately, those things have really reared their head in a modern way in writing, and particularly in the work we
I didn’t even recognize my own writing. The editor had sent me the proof of my book review – and mind you, this is a book review for a journal in the UK – and the beginning of the proof started with the end of someone else’s book review, which is pretty typical. But when it got to my review, and I casually skipped over
Today, I saw a post in a forum online for a group that I belong to asking for some support to reject an administrator’s push to purchase Grammarly for the department. Many people quickly responded in support of the post, complete with a youtube video that I will link here entitled “Grammarly is garbage.” Several others posted peer-reviewed journal articles (which I will also link)
In the introduction to Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science, Harris remarks that “the overall agreement that [scientists] achieve is amazing when compared to politics or religion or literary criticism” (1). I’m not sure on what basis this claim is made, but it’s made with such authority, and by a scientist, that on first read I simply took it to be true. But not only did I
In his book The History and Theory of Rhetoric, James Herrick remarks that “Aristotle believed that false ideas prevail only when advocates of what is true fail to understand rhetoric.” Is this true, however? False ideas, such as those spread by our most recent former president, were perpetuated without any training in rhetoric, and yet many advocates of the truth understand very well how this individual’s
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Welcome to my repository of extracurricular writings. By day, I teach university-level scientific writing courses and I am the Assistant Director of a Writing Center. By evening, I’m a musician. At all times, I’m a mother, wife, and avid consumer of chocolate.