Category: Teaching

In my previous blog post, I wrote about a reflective essay assignment for a first-semester English Composition class.  The assignment asks students to explain how a personal object symbolizes them.  Students often write a about a valuable object such as their laptop, cell phone, or pickup truck, or they write about an emotionally-meaningful object such…

Reflective writing is a major component of how I teach a first-semester English Composition course – two other major components are rhetorical analysis and argumentation.  Students actually write several reflection assignments in my class, as both major assignments and daily writing and reading activities. In this blog post, I am going to describe the English…

The beginning of the semester is often the time instructors put together the course syllabus. What should go in a syllabus? Here is a description of the most common components in a college course syllabus. I have grouped the components into categories. Instructor Contact Information and Availability The instructor’s contact information and their availability for…

Image analysis is the process of creating meaning out of an image. The viewer examines components of the image – such as subject, color, placement – and makes a conclusion about the “dominant impression” or overall idea or mood the image is portraying. In my previous post, I showed how an image can be analyzed…