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 …

Interview With Dr. Trent Sutton

For the second installment of WriteAlaska Conversations, we sat down with Dr. Trent Sutton of the School of Fisheries and Ocean Science. In the interview, he offers some helpful advice on using short writing assignments to develop student’s awareness of the rhetorical situation. What do you think? Use the comment box below to start a …

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 …