The emergence of text generating Ai in the contemporary classroom presents numerous problems for the contemporary writing professor. Students using AI to plagiarize their work being the most pragmatic of these issues. How can I, a (lowly?) human possibly detect the work of robots and discern that work from that of my fellow man? While Read More…
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Using Ai to Teach Science Communications
In Professional Writing for Healthcare: Writing & Revising Research Summaries with Artificial Intelligence Heidi Mckee shares a writing assignment she designed for her Professional Writing for Healthcare course which she taught at the University of Miami. Mckee cites the goals of the assignment as “to provide opportunities for students to learn about writing research summaries Read More…
Plain Technical Language
As teachers of writing, rhetoric and professional communication, constantly we remind our students to analyze their audience and to start their work by considering what their audience expects and how they can best persuade them. So when considering how best to teach technical communication to college students, we as instructors should consider our audience, and Read More…
Teaching Group Work
The year is 2018 and for some inexplicable reason, I am loafing about in my introductory business management class in order to start what I presumably considered would become a lengthy and rewarding but inevitably unfulfilled career as an accountant. If I had ever read the syllabus to this class, I had swiftly and intentionally Read More…
Queering Student Participation
How does a classroom build around the identities of it’s queer students? “Queering Student Participation: Whispers, Echoes, Rants, and Memory,” by Matthew Cox explores the way in which queer idenitfying student’s classroom experience is impacted by their identity.
Meme it Till You Make It; Using Internet Communications in The Contemporary Classroom
By James Mellen In the age of mass communication and mass reproduction, internet memes have become an increasingly important “memes” of communication, especially among the Millennial and Zillenial generation. So, how does one make use of this emerging means of communication in an effective teaching practice? How does someone take a look at the meme Read More…