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Writing To Transgress: Autobiographies And Family Trees As Multimodal And Culturally Sustaining Writing Pedagogy, John Wesley White, Cynthia Lynn Sumner
Writing To Transgress: Autobiographies And Family Trees As Multimodal And Culturally Sustaining Writing Pedagogy, John Wesley White, Cynthia Lynn Sumner
Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education
Engaging today's students in writing often requires more than formulas and prompts; it requires the use of culturally sustaining genres and modalities that speak to students' lived experiences and what they know best. This paper chronicles an urban teacher's attempt to create and use a writing prompt and a genre that would speak to and engage students who had previously experienced discouragement surrounding their academic writing. More specifically, we examine how the teacher used family trees, student-led interviews with family members, and family artifacts to engage his students in telling their own stories and, subsequently, how changes in this teacher's …
Self-Reflective Journaling: A Practice For Achieving Self-Understanding And Acceptance, Overcoming Creative Resistance, And Moving Toward Ideal Self, Courtney Moses
Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection
The Critical and Creative Thinking synthesis course provided an opportunity for me to begin a process of self-transformation, using all that I had learned in the program about metacognition, reflective practice, and creativity to inspire goals for my personal growth. As part of my work in the synthesis course, I rediscovered a consistent practice of self-reflective journaling that I had abandoned some years ago and used my synthesis paper to document my process in hopes that others may learn from it and perhaps be inspired to take on a self-reflective journaling practice of their own. As my paper reveals through …
3 Requirements For Meaningful Memoir Writing, Jeff Rasley
3 Requirements For Meaningful Memoir Writing, Jeff Rasley
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Guest blog post for Novel Spaces on the three requirements for meaningful memoir writing.
Memoir Writing From Diary To Publishable Piece, Jeff Rasley
Memoir Writing From Diary To Publishable Piece, Jeff Rasley
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Guest blog for Indies Unlimited on memoir writing.
Memoir Writing With A Purpose, Jeff Rasley
Memoir Writing With A Purpose, Jeff Rasley
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Guest blog for Morgen Bailey’s Writing Blog on memoir writing.
Meaningful Memoir Writing, Jeff Rasley
Meaningful Memoir Writing, Jeff Rasley
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Guest blog for Say This Write on memoir writing.