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…
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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…
By Rich Russell (This post for for my fellow AN blogger Kat. Kat, I hope at least some of this is helpful.) The best advice I received…
[private]Last week I sketched out the issues surrounding adjuncts and grading in general. This week these issues were brought home in a specific experience, one that is…
By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. Grading is one of the biggest challenges facing a New Adjunct. I've always felt grading was a strong suit of mine, as…
By Melissa McDonald I like to keep busy. Teaching semester-after-semester keeps the momentum going, but then something happens that forces me to sit out for a semester…
By Kat Kiefer-Newman Last weekend I was dog sitting. A dear friend was heading up the coast for 2 ½ days and needed someone to check in…
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:…
By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. I've noticed that each semester there are a handful of students who really come alive the last two weeks of class! They…
By Rich Russell As an English teacher, no matter how many times you have taught a class, fussed and fretted with the lesson plans like a nervous…
