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Conversation, Writing, and the Role of Comics
Today we welcome guest blogger Chris Gerben. Chris teaches writing and speaking courses within the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University. His research interrogates ways in which...
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More than a Textbook
Today we welcome guest blogger Dr. Jim Haendiges. Jim is an Assistant Professor of English at Dixie State University in Saint George, Utah. He teaches courses on technical and professional writing as...
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A Re-Vision of Peer Review using Understanding Rhetoric
This week we welcome guest blogger Molly Scanlon. Molly is an Assistant Professor of Writing at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Her research focuses on visual rhetoric...
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The Importance of Teaching Comics Literacy
Today’s guest blogger is Michael Pemberton, a Professor of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University, Director of the University Writing Center, and Editor of the online journal Across the...
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Comics and Scholarship
By Elizabeth Losh Academic scholarship that depends upon citation and review of existing literature is usually seen as dense and complicated, diametrically opposed to the clarity and accessibility of...
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MOOCs and Comics
In the composition community, there has been a lot of discussion about the efficacy and difficult of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) that may enroll tens of thousands of students in courses...
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We Are All Metamorphs
Today’s guest blogger, Paula Mathieu, teaches courses at Boston College in composition pedagogy, nonfiction writing, rhetoric, cultural studies, and homeless literature, while also directing the...
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How Comics Can Be an Entry Point to Prose Novels
Today’s guest blogger is Daniel Jose Ruiz, assistant professor and Vice-Chair of English/ESL at Los Angeles City College. Daniel teaches a wide range of courses, from basic skills to literature, but...
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Making Comics in the Classroom: Success as Process
Guest blogger Keith McCleary has an MFA in Creative Writing from UCSD and is the recipient of the Barbara and Paul Saltman Excellent Teaching Award for Graduate Students and a UCIRA Open Classroom...
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Getting your comic Zen on…
Jonathan recently sat down digitally to catch up with his former student, David Lumb, now a full-time journalist and aspiring comics author in NYC. In this interview, David shares more thoughts on...
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Last month Alison Bechdel received a prestigious MacArthur Fellows Program Award. Known for her comic strip work Dykes to Watch Out For and the acclaimed graphic memoir Fun Home, which is about her...
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Many campuses now have general education requirements that require students to take courses that incorporate sensitivity training designed to reduce incidents of racism or sexism on campus. The...
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Communicating to Non-Literate Audiences with Comics
In the United States comics generally appeal to those who already know how to read and write, but in other contexts sequences of images with relatable characters and stories convey important...
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Teaching Engineering as a Discipline with Graphic Novels
A few months ago Nick Carbone pointed out one of the most interesting and sophisticated examples of student work that I’ve ever seen in a graphic novel format, “What is Engineering?” by Mallory “Mel”...
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Announcing a CCCC Event on Teaching with Understanding Rhetoric
Have you taught with Understanding Rhetoric by Liz Losh, Jonathan Alexander, Kevin Cannon, and Zander Cannon–or are you curious about teaching with it in the future? Are you going to 4Cs in Tampa? If...
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