Month: September 2010
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Writing Guilt
For the first few weeks of the semester, I’ve noted that I’ve either made time for exercise or made time for writing, but that I wasn’t doing a good job of making time for both. Exercise was my chosen priority, just to keep my sanity during a period of heavy service obligations… But that left…
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Elon Research Seminar
Today the Elon Research Seminar: Writing and the Question of Transfer website went live. Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer, a two-year research seminar, will facilitate multi-institutional research on the study of writing transfer at critical transitions. It’s an exciting time to be at Elon!
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Rockquemore’s “New Year, New Habits”
New academic year, that is… Kerry Ann Rockquemore’s latest Inside Higher Education series focuses on the tenure track, but there are clear traces of her helpful writing strategies. I appreciate her focus on future goals and her weekly reminders to make time for writing. My semester work plan is sketched out on three dry-erase monthly…