by Paul Thomas One of the best and most significant changes for me when I moved from high school English teaching to being a college professor was a blossoming…
Negotiating the Paradox: Adjuncts & Writing
by Julie Candio Do you remember what happened last Wednesday? No? Sometimes our students don't either. And I don't blame them. While students can refer to the…
By Jonathan Wei and David Miller There’s been much discussion about the needless complexity of academic writing. In a widely read article in The Chronicle of Higher…
by Cindy O’Dell Taking a completely online class can be a case of sink or swim, says Jeffrey M. Welch, an adjunct professor in the School of…
by Gerald Nelms When I began teaching back in the early 1980s, any student plagiarizing upset me a lot. I experienced exactly what Richard Murphy describes in…
by Debra Leigh Scott Put simply, universities traditionally have pursued a three-prong mission: 1) to provide excellent educational opportunities, 2) to support scholarly research and study, and 3)…
by Nick Grabbe Is there a doctorate in the house? If so, an Amherst scholar wants to know — and wants to rally independent scholars, adjunct faculty…
Part of what I've been doing in this blog is noodling around the questions of how adjunct writers' circumstances affect their writing (and writing teaching), and, by…
Last week we shared the first portion of an interview with Dr. Kirk Astle, Director of College Writing at Baker College Online. This week we conclude that…
This week we're shifting focus a bit. Dana S. Dunn is Professor of Psychology at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Moravian is a small and selective liberal…
