One aspect of blogging that is a recurring pleasant surprise is when an older posts pops up in the daily stats; someone has discovered and shared, and then, it resonates, often in a way it did not when I originally posted it.
Since my primary focus as an educator has been writing, I have accumulated a significant number of posts on being a writer and on teaching writing/composition. Here, I want to catalogue my writing posts by topics in order to make them more accessible to anyone interested. I will also try to update as I write more.
Hope this is useful to writers and teachers of writing.
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Investigating Purposeful Writing: From Poetry to Essay
Teaching English Is Teaching English?: Not Really
Teaching and Writing as Activism: From Scholar to Blogger
Aliens in Academia: Teaching Writing from the Margins
“If you read this story out loud”: Carmen Maria Machado’s Stories
Making Writing Instruction Work: Conferencing
Teaching Writing in the Absence of Expertise
How to Get Published as an Educator
Shifting Disciplinary Gears as Student Writers
Models, Mentor Texts, and (More) Resisting Rubrics
Ken Lindblom’s “Is Interesting to Read” and the Rubric Dilemma Redux
Accountability, Standards, and High-Stakes Testing of Writing
Adventures in Nonsense: Teaching Writing in the Accountability Era
Why You Cannot Trust Common Core Advocacy
Misguided Reading Policy Creates Wrong Lessons for Students as Writers
Reformed to Death: Discipline and Control Eclipse Education
Being a Writing Teacher
A Community of Writing Teachers
Fostering the Transition from Student to Writer
Who Can, Who Should Teach Writing?
Writing, Unteachable or Mistaught?
What Does “Teaching Writing” Mean?
Analogies Like Land Mines: Treading Carefully When We Discuss Teaching Writing
Being a Writer
A Portrait of the Artist as Activist: “in the sunlit prison of the American dream”
Teaching, Writing as Activism?
Three Eyes: Writer, Editor, Teacher
Choice
Student Choice, Engagement Keys to Higher Quality Writing
Citation and Research Papers
On Citation and the Research Paper
Technology Fails Plagiarism, Citation Tests
Real-World Citation versus the Drudgery of Academic Writing
Community
A Community of Writing Teachers
Creative Writing
On Writing Workshop, Cognitive Overload, and Creative Writing
Appreciating the Unteachable: Creative Writing in Formal Schooling
Diagramming Sentences
Diagramming Sentences and the Art of Misguided Nostalgia
Direct Instruction
Reclaiming “Direct Instruction”
Disciplinary Writing
Writing as a Discipline and in the Disciplines
Reading Like a Writer (Scholar): Kingsolver’s “Making Peace”
Intersections and Disjunctures: Scholars, Teachers, and Writers
Helping Students Navigate Disciplinary Writing: The Quote Problem
First-Year Composition
Writing as a Discipline and in the Disciplines
You Don’t Know Nothing: U.S. Has Always Shunned the Expert
Is Joseph R. Teller Teaching Composition All Wrong?
Fostering the Transition from Student to Writer
What Does “Teaching Writing” Mean?
Five-Paragraph Essay
How the 5-Paragraph Essay Fails as Warranted Practice
Adventures in Nonsense: Teaching Writing in the Accountability Era
John Warner Swears Off Essays, and Students? (Yes, And So Should Everyone)
Genre Awareness
How the 5-Paragraph Essay Fails as Warranted Practice
Investigating Zombi(e)s to Foster Genre Awareness
What Does “Teaching Writing” Mean?
Teaching Literacy in Pursuit of “a Wholesome Use of Language”
Grading
Rethinking Grading as Instruction: Rejecting the Error Hunt and Deficit Practices
Not How to Enjoy Grading But Why to Stop Grading
Reformed to Death: Discipline and Control Eclipse Education
The Nearly Impossible: Teaching Writing in a Culture of Grades, Averages
Grammar
Lost in Translation: More from a Stranger in Academia
Teaching Literacy, Not Literacy Skills
Fostering Convention Awareness in Students: Eschewing a Rules-Based View of Language
Diagramming Sentences and the Art of Misguided Nostalgia
Not If, But When: The Role of Direct Instruction in Teaching Writing
Teaching Literacy in Pursuit of “a Wholesome Use of Language”
On Common Terminology and Teaching Writing: Once Again, the Grammar Debate
LaBrant, Lou
On Writing Workshop, Cognitive Overload, and Creative Writing
Lost in Translation: More from a Stranger in Academia
Teaching Writing in ELA/English: “not everything to do, but something”
How the 5-Paragraph Essay Fails as Warranted Practice
To High School English Teachers (and All Teachers)
Appreciating the Unteachable: Creative Writing in Formal Schooling
What Does “Teaching Writing” Mean?
Teaching English as “the most intimate subject in the curriculum”
Diagramming Sentences and the Art of Misguided Nostalgia
Literacy
Teaching Literacy, Not Literacy Skills
Formal Schooling and the Death of Literacy
Literary Analysis Essay
Teaching Writing in ELA/English: “not everything to do, but something”
Literary Technique Hunt
Formal Schooling and the Death of Literacy
Plagiarism
On Citation and the Research Paper
Plagiarism: Caught between Academia and the Real World
Technology Fails Plagiarism, Citation Tests
Poetry
Teaching Essay Writing through Poetry
Public Intellectual (Writing for the Public)
Writing for the Public: A Framework
Publishing
Advice for Submitting Work for Publication
Reading Like a Writer
Reading Like a Writer (Scholar): Kingsolver’s “Making Peace”
Guided Activity: More Reading Like a Writer
Teaching English
Teaching Writing in ELA/English: “not everything to do, but something”
Readers, Writers, Teachers, and Students: “the pointlessness of so much of it”
To High School English Teachers (and All Teachers)
Teaching English as “the most intimate subject in the curriculum”
Writing Process
Writing as Discovery: When Process Defaults to Script
Writers on Writing
Investigating Text with Writers
Readers, Writers, Teachers, and Students: “the pointlessness of so much of it”
Writing, Unteachable or Mistaught?
Intersections and Disjunctures: Scholars, Teachers, and Writers
Writing Workshop
On Writing Workshop, Cognitive Overload, and Creative Writing
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