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!

Here is the link for Marjorie Munsterberg’s Writing About Art: http://writingaboutart.org/

Thanks to everyone for a great session today!

Kim de B.

Hi. This will be our group blog for the WAC Program/ACERT Teaching Scholarship Circle on Helping Students Develop an Academic Voice. No frills, all function. All members can post anything of interest to the group. And on the Resources page you can find the readings for the sessions plus other related texts. Welcome to the Composition Corner of Burke’s Parlor.