This week, the reading I connected most with was Vivian Zamel’s “Strangers in Academia.” I have a couple of ESL students in my section, and I’m sure I will encounter many more in my time at Emory and throughout my career. I found Zamel’s article a useful breakdown of beliefs I already hold, but that …

On the whole, I didn’t find this week’s batch of readings quite as useful as last weeks. Many of the examples in Strategies and In Our Own Voice seemed very university-specific and too grounded in the author’s own particular pedagogy. I found going over the syllabi of the current third-year cohort last spring much more …

I found a number of strategies from this weeks reading useful, especially those in Chapter 7, “Teaching Invention.” I am most interested in applying the assignement in Susan Allspaw’s piece, “Writing Excercise– Connections.” Allspaw introduces photography into the composition classroom to foster a dialogue about perspective and subject position. She has her students to chose a …