Join us for a day of Choosing Your Words at UAF’s 2015 Celebration of Writing! Create a literacy narrative, explore recipes and food as communication, join a dictionary dialogue or travel through time and USE YOUR WORDS! Coming soon! Who: You! This event is for everyone in the Fairbanks community. Come as a student, come …
Author Archives: Kendell Newman
Interview with Dana Greci, Developmental Education (Reading & Writing)
In this video interview, Dana Greci (Associate Professor, Developmental Education) talks with us about working in her courses to address the many challenges that students face when they enter college. From those who are returning to school after many years away to students who are moving to a city for the first time, our classrooms …
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Interview with Donald Crocker, Student Advising
Donald Crocker, alumnus of UAF and former lead academic adviser for the Academic Advising Center, talks about UAF’s undergraduate students – what they expect when they enter our classrooms, and what we should expect of them. How do advisers prepare students and set expectations for writing courses? What’s unique about our student population, and about …
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Difficult Dialogues
Difficult Dialogues is an online space that features news and commentary of interest to writing teachers. We use the “Scoop it!” platform to curate these articles and share them with you. Check here for recent scoops! Interested or inspired by one of these pieces? Comment below. Start a dialogue. Have you found an article that …
WriteAlaska Conversations
WriteAlaska Conversations hosts monthly posts from across the UAF community about writing and students and classrooms. Every month, we interview a different UAF community member about their perspective on writing at the university – in their classrooms, in their work places, and beyond. Our aim is to build community across departments and other sectors of …