Usually when I require my students to try something in the classroom, a strategy, a technique, or a technology, for instance, I prefer to...

In recent conversation with a colleague about active learning in the composition classroom, the nature of writing came up; that is, do we...

On the one hand, my literature students have become so proficient at their group work that most of them have already discovered their...

I wanted to begin the semester in my composition classes with a preliminary collaboration exercise and I wanted it to be low stakes, low...

The overview essays, wherein students report on their stages of progress regarding their final analysis papers, seem to indicate that...

Another fruitful day on the poetry carousel in my American Literature class yesterday has brightened the room a little. Last year, in...

I’ve now started my eportfolio-based American Literature class, hoping to capture the success I had last year with the eportfolio-based...