In our next session we’ll consider how we teach “academic voice” to our students, if we do. Please bring, or post on this site, examples of exercises or assignments you use to help students learn and adopt the academic voice of your discipline.

A reading for the session, an excerpt from Graff and Birkenstein’s They Say/I Say, is posted on the “Resources” page of this blog. It is a currently popular example of teaching academic writing by helping students “enter the conversation.”

And perhaps we should consider whether it is wise, or necessary, to teach academic voice at all.

We’ll meet as usual in 409B Thomas Hunter, at 10 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 21st. See you then!