Today in Composition, we spent some time on one last-minute edit of the first project before it was turned in, and I was interested to note how many typos, dropped and misspelled words were corrected! Hopefully, this kind of attention to detail will improve in later projects; to help ensure that happens, I've asked students …
Workshopping, Round 1
This morning in comp 102, we held our first workshopping day, and I've got mixed feelings about it. It's hard to read one's own work critically, true--but I still feel that looking at others' work is an important first step. Workshopping helps us acheive the degree of distance necessary to a critical examination of one's …
:15 Classes
Each year, I like to have a small-group, short-class meeting with students, ideally at the beginning of the term; today we had ours in Composition 2, and four students met together, with me, for :15 classes. The time allows me to get to know students a bit better, on the individual level, as well as …
Comp 102: Introductions, Overview
I think the first class of our comp 102 course went swimmingly, though I miscalculated a bit on the time and we went over by a few minutes. We did the typical first day dance, going over the syllabus, but we also began thinking about the first project--which I hope the students will find enjoyable, …
First day of a new term
Tomorrow is the first day of a new term, and I'm equal parts excited and nervous, as usual. I'm teaching three classes at Marymount University, including Composition II, Early Modern World Literature, and Theater History. I'm trying something new with my composition course this term; instead of just working from a rather arbitrary topic of …
Tonya Howe 