Actually Teaching from Where You Are

Welcome back Jess Tabak. We are having a NUANCED conversation (IYKYK) about how the process of research can make one a better citizen. How? Push play ;)

The CRAP Test

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The episode you need to start the semester strong? Tired of making mistakes that feel easy to avoid but you're not sure how to do it? Let's talk about some common writing mistakes and how to avoid them with guest co-host and longtime writing center associate Lucy McInerney!

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Back at it like we never left! Want to feel like your work in college has an everyday use? It does! Let's talk about how what you're learning in college can make you a savvy scroller on social media.

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Students, if your writing anxieties are banging down your door as you try to bang out these finals, fear not! We're gonna speak back to those fears today!

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Questions that need answers! Teachers, do we actually need to put the research paper in permanent timeout? I'm here to tackle that question with the associate director of Brown's writing center, Dr. Charlie Carroll.

Links mentioned in episode:
Asao Inoue, “Classroom Writing Assessment as an Antiracist Practice: Confronting White Supremacy in the Judgments of Language”

John Mueller, “Authentic Assignment Toolbox”

Joy Santee, “Cartographic Composition Across the Curriculum: Promoting Cartographic Literacy Using Maps as Multimodal Texts”

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Are teaching statements as stressful for y'all as they were for me? Well today, Dr. Sara Misgen is here to uncloud our skies. Let's get into it!

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I'm back with another *audio* book review. This time of Other People's English by Vershawn Ashanti Young, Rusty Barrett, Y'Shanda Young-Rivera, and Kim Brian Lovejoy. This is a treasure of a book, so let me tell you about it and then you go get into it!!

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It's midterms and you may have five papers to revise in two weeks! Don't stress. Here are three quick tips to revise your own work with new eyes!

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Anti-racist writing in STEM? Let's get into it with Dr. Meghan Gonzalves!

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Tutors, grad student instructors, it's hard to launch into this teaching thing, right? I know it was for me and I still have to gird myself every time I enter the classroom! Today, I talk to Dr. Stacey Lawrence about how to teach from where you are. Get ready to laugh, learn, and realize you have all you need to succeed!

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