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Acting Bias: Staging Media Analysis in First-Year Writing

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Freddie (Fiona) Harris Ramsby Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description In first-year writing classrooms, embodied teaching methods, such as Kathryn Dawson and Bridget Kiger Lee’s drama-based pedagogy (DBP), “[provide] an innovative means to stimulate students’ creativity…to foster learning that sticks, cultivating brains that retain information” (Harris Ramsby 1). Combining Newman P. Birk and Genevieve B. […]

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Call for Proposals: Writing Spaces, Volume 7

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Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, an open textbook series of peer-reviewed essays from diverse perspectives, all composed by teachers for students, seeks 500-word proposals for essays for its forthcoming volume. In our continuing effort to support undergraduate writing, we surveyed faculty to determine areas to update, expand upon, or otherwise address. While we would gladly

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Call for Proposals: Activities & Assignments Archive @ Writing Spaces

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Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, an open textbook series for undergraduate composition, is now seeking proposals for the Activities and Assignments Archive. As an open-access companion resource to the Writing Spaces textbook series, the Activities and Assignments Archive offers pedagogical resources grounded in current practice and scholarship. Each document presents a pedagogical activity or assignment

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Call for Participants – The WS Accessibility Group

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About Writing Spaces  Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing is a book series containing peer-reviewed collections of essays—all composed by teachers for students—with each volume freely available for download under a Creative Commons license. Writing Spaces aims to build a library of quality open access textbooks for the writing classroom as an alternative to costly textbooks.

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Volume 5 published!

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The Writing Spaces team is happy to announce that Volume 5 of our Readings on Writing series is now available! Download the entire volume or browse individual chapters here on the Writing Spaces website or visit Parlor Press to purchase a print copy. Volumes in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing offer multiple perspectives on a wide range

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Call for Proposals Vol. 7: Writing in Global Spaces

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Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing is an open-source textbook series for undergraduate composition students. Peer-reviewed chapters are written specifically for students and include a teacher resource section for other instructors. The editors are seeking to expand its student and writing instructor audiences to include those at English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) institutions and

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Call for Proposals

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Call for Proposals: Activities & Assignments Archive @ Writing Spaces Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, an open textbook series for undergraduate composition, is now seeking proposals for the Activities and Assignments Archive. As an open-access companion resource to the Writing Spaces textbook series, the Activities and Assignments Archive offers pedagogical resources grounded in current practice

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Call for Co-Editor

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About Writing Spaces  Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing is a book series containing peer-reviewed collections of essays—all composed by teachers for students—with each volume freely available for download under a Creative Commons license. Writing Spaces aims to build a library of quality open access textbooks for the writing classroom as an alternative to costly textbooks.

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