Researching the researcher

Yesterday was the Syracuse Writing Program’s annual Fall Teaching Conference, which might well be called “old faculty reorientation.” Every year we get together and talk about pressing issues in pedagogy and curriculum. This year our topic was our second required writing course, a sophomore-level course focused on research. We convened to consider ways to increase [...]

New article, new journal

I’m happy to say that an article that Patricia Serviss, Tanya Rodrigue, and I wrote has just been accepted at the new journal Writing and Pedagogy. They’re going to be publishing a special issue on plagiarism. Our article, titled “Writing from Sources, Writing from Sentences,” isn’t actually about plagiarism. Rather, it’s about some of the [...]