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What’s Changing? My Writing Across Platforms students will write for BuzzFeed and More in Spring 2016. Oh, And here’s the syllabus!

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Each semester, I like to highlight something that I’m doing different in one of my classes (for example, see last Fall’s What’s Changing post). This semester, I’d like to highlight my Writing Across Platforms class (the syllabus is at the bottom of this […]

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Teaching College Writing Using the Hemingway App

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. If he were alive today, would Ernest Hemingway be great at writing Tweets? I like to think that he would. After all, he is attributed with writing the famous 6-word novel: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn” (though his authorship of the story […]

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Here Are My Spring 2014 Syllabi: Writing and Research

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. The snow is coming down here in West Virginia! Classes are canceled today so I will be catching up on research and some other things. But let’s talk classes and syllabi! In addition to the applied Communication Research class I am teaching this […]

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Teaching The Applied Communication Research Class

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Metrics, Metrics, Metrics! I hear it everywhere I turn. :) More than ever, we need to be teaching our students research skills. This Spring 2014 semester I am really excited to be teaching an applied Communication Research class! For two years at Utah […]

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Why We Should Teach Content Marketing in the Writing Class

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Some say content marketing is a hot topic in 2013 that will pass – a buzzword of sorts. I say, we should be teaching it to our students. What is content marketing? As Tom Foremski said, “Every company is a media company.” Content […]

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