by Elizabeth Gruner I’ve been teaching college English for more than 30 years. Four years ago, I stopped putting grades on written work, and it has transformed…
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FORT WELCH, Florida. Lydia Pfeiffer is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at a state college in this panhandle hamlet, and as she finishes grading the…
by Kelly O'Connor-Salomon I was at the doctor's last week, and, as is typical for me, I had a book along to read. The nurse came in,…
By Bruce A. Johnson, Ph.D., MBA If you have students who have done exceptionally well on a class assignment or they have exceeded all expectations for participation…
It's almost May. The weather has changed and it's making me think ahead. I'm already planning my meager summer vacation. Most of this summer I'll be desperately…
By Bruce A. Johnson, Ph.D., MBA An adjunct instructor has many responsibilities to consider each week and this emphasizes the need to have effective facilitation strategies. One…
By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. I am writing to you from underneath the hair dryer, with my hair in foils, and the shower cap holding it all…
As we all try to make sense of the state of adjunct faculty, and try to write, it is easy to get caught up in the immediate:…
One of the factors defining academic writing, and distinguishing it from writing in the rest of the world, is that it is graded. Grading is an area…
By Dorinda Fox Over 90 percent of the time I feel lucky to be paid to teach writing. The other 10 percent of the time that I…
