In the spring, I was in a class on rhetoric and composition for my master’s in English program. We focused on many different ideas, from threshold concepts in writing to multimodal composition to inclusive practices for international and L2 students. For our summative assignment, however, we had to choose a focus that we hadn’t covered, or at least … Read more
Toward the beginning of May, I enrolled in the online master’s program for English at Ohio University. Like my classmates, I made the choice to go back to graduate school because I want to increase my depth of knowledge about English literary history and theories of composition. But the first week focused on neither of … Read more
March 2022 Update: Check out the “Why We Should Learn the Parts of Speech” comic here. It’s a common experience: The English teacher hands out a paragraph to each student in class. The instructions at the top read Underline each common, proper, or collective noun. Or perhaps they direct students to Write a verb to … Read more