This was my first time teaching a summer course and my only time teaching WRT 104 specifically. This course is required of students who are not able to be placed into a WRT 105 section until the fall, but rather than see this as a restriction I saw it as an opportunity to try something…
This was my first time teaching professional writing, and admittedly I had very little prior knowledge about teaching technical/professional communication specifically. I understood this class was very genre driven and task oriented, and I opted to adhere to the shared syllabus that is recommended to first time teachers. This being my first upper division course,…
WRT 302 is a required course for the major and is the only course that focuses on digital composing specifically. While many of the courses I design have digital components to them (notably blog writing and digital portfolios), WRT 302 was a bit different in that the readings focused on issues with digital communication specifically….
WRT 205 is a class I have spent a great deal of time thinking about and developing further. Regardless of version, one of my primary goals for the course is to help students develop strong source evaluation skills: acquiring sources pertaining to a specific topic in addition to analyzing them and utilizing them effectively in…
WRT 105 is the class I have taught the most, and, as with WRT 205, it is one of my more developed versions of the course. When I first taught WRT 105, I had no experience teaching writing and leaned considerably on the suggestions of my teaching mentor (who happened to be the Director of…