Welcome

December is half over, the first semester of my directorship of the first-year-writing program is almost over, and with all this extra time on my hands my thoughts have turned--where else?--to blogging. My idea is to get as many of the instructors in the program as possible involved as cobloggers, and certainly as commenters.

Some things we might want to discuss, in no particular order:

• teaching and grading strategies


• developing an effective teacher persona


• adapting Writing as Drama to one's teaching style


• revising and improving Writing as Drama


• strengths and weaknesses of other comp textbooks and readers


• professional development for comp instructors


• improving the institutional status of GIs and non-tenure-track comp instructors


• e-portfolios and other assessment strategies


• making the transition to the new Center for Communication Across the Curriculum