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Resources from Episode 6 with Nancy Sommers

11/26/2019

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Hi! I got to sit down and talk with one of my favorite people: Nancy Sommers. In Episode 6, Nancy Sommers talks about her first experience teaching, her work on responding to student writing, what comments best complement her teaching values, and she shares the importance of reflection in the writing classroom.

I mention some of Nancy’s work in that episode:
  • “Revision Strategies of Student and Experienced Writers” (1980)
  • “Responding to Student Writing” (1982)
  • “Between the Drafts” (1992)
  • A Pocket Style Manual (8th edition)

​Nancy mentions Leaves of Grass and Pride and Prejudice (what she had students read in her first teaching experience), and she talks about the Harvard Study of Undergraduate Writing. There's a lot of good information and additional resources there.

In Episode 6, Nancy shares that she has students write a “Dear Reader/Writer’s Memo” that documents and reflects on what they do between drafts. This letter does a good job showing individual revision processes, and also helps communicate that writing is a process. Students turn this letter in with their final draft, and Nancy responds to both the final draft and the "Dear Reader/Writer's Memo." 

I really like how Nancy engages in conversations with students throughout the semester about response, and she encourages writing teachers to think about response as a pedagogy. She brings up important questions that can help generate discussions between teachers and students about response in the writing classroom:
  • Which of the comments are helpful, and which are not?
  • How might [students] categorize these comments, or what did they see as the pattern in these comments?
  • What are they learning from these comments?
  • What do they understand about these comments?

I hope you find these resources useful. Nancy gives us a lot to think about and a lot to do when it comes to response to student writing and making response central to teaching. You can listen to the full episode here, or read the transcript. Nancy was also on a bonus episode:
  • Pedagogue Bonus: Advice to First-Time Teachers (w/Nancy Sommers)

Thanks for listening and circulating the podcast.  

Yours,
-S
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Resources from Episode 5 with Kyle Larson and Dana Comi

11/26/2019

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Hi all, I had the good fortune to talk with Kyle Larson, a PhD student at the University of Miami (OH), and Dana Comi, a PhD student at the University of Kansas. You can listen to that episode here, or read the transcript. You can also read more about Kyle and Dana. I wanted to write a blog post sharing resources they mentioned.

Kyle Larson:
  • ​nextGEN Listserv
  • Black Student Action Association
  • Racial Consciousness 101
  • Neisha-Anne Greene

Dana Comi:
  • Undergraduate Research Poster Session at CCCC
  • Haskell Indian Nations University
  • Ramen Bowls
  • Ikigai Noodle

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I hope these resources are beneficial to you, your students, your programs, and your institutions. Thanks for listening, reading, and following along.

​Yours,
-S
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Episode 11: John Duffy

11/19/2019

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In this episode, John Duffy talks about ethics, how teachers are already engaged in teaching ethical communication, and he shares what "virtue ethics" can offer writing teachers and the writing classroom.
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Listen on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, SoundCloud, Spotify, or Stitcher ​
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Pedagogue Bonus: Applying to Graduate Programs (w/Mandy Olejnik)

11/19/2019

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​In this bonus episode, Mandy Olejnik talks about her experience applying to graduate programs, and she shares advice for students planning and/or currently in the process of applying to grad school.

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, SoundCloud, Spotify, or Stitcher ​
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Many thanks, and two new episodes this week

11/18/2019

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Hi, all! Big, big news. We're releasing a new Pedagogue Bonus episode and Episode 11 on Wednesday, 11/20. Thanksgiving is next week and we wanted to say "thank you, thank you" to all our listeners and followers. So twice the amount of Pedagogue this week (and three times in 5 days, have you listened to Episode 10: Megan Von Bergen and Liz Miller!?).

I'm really thankful for all your support over the past six months. I really wish I could thank each one of you individually. This podcast is sustained by the voices of others -- and I don't just mean by the voices of our contributors, I mean you and your voice. Pedagogue wouldn't exist without you. It's crazy to think that in six months, our first episode launched May 10th, we will have released 11 full episodes and 6 bonus episodes. We're thankful. Extremely thankful.

We're also thankful for all the people who have been on the podcast. 
As of today (11/18), our full episode contributors: Mike Rose, Stephanie Vie, Steve Parks, Kyle Larson, Dana Comi, Nancy Sommers, Lisa King, Jessica Nastal, Beverly J. Moss, Megan Von Bergen, and Liz Miller. And our bonus episode contributors: Steve Parks, Nancy Sommers, Les Hutchinson, Antonio Byrd, and Lori Ostergaard. Thanks for your good conversations and your willingness to support Pedagogue. And thanks to the others I've talked to over the past several months.

We're celebrating Thanksgiving early by releasing two new episodes this week: 
  • Pedagogue Bonus: Applying to Graduate Programs (w/Mandy Olejnik)
    • ​In this bonus episode, Mandy Olejnik talks about her experience applying to graduate programs, and she shares advice for students planning and/or currently in the process of applying to grad school.
  • Episode 11: John Duffy 
    • ​In this episode, John Duffy talks about ethics, how teachers are already engaged in teaching ethical communication, and he shares what "virtue ethics" can offer writing teachers and the writing classroom.

There you have it. Two new episodes on Wednesday, 11/20. A double dose of thanks.

Thankful, 
-S
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Episode 10: Megan Von Bergen and Liz Miller

11/14/2019

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In this episode, Megan Von Bergen and Liz Miller talk about their research interests and what informs their teaching, mental health and disability studies, response and assessment practices, and using accessible pedagogies and practices.
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​Listen on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, SoundCloud, Spotify, or Stitcher 
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Episode 10 release date: Friday, 11/15

11/13/2019

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Hello, friends and listeners! We're releasing a new episode this Friday, 11/15!

Episode 10: Megan Von Bergen and Liz Miller 
In this episode, Megan Von Bergen and Liz Miller talk about their research interests and what informs their teaching, mental health and disability studies, response and assessment practices, and using accessible pedagogies and practices.
  • Megan Von Bergen is currently a doctoral student in Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Prior to beginning her studies, she taught first-year writing and served as de facto WPA for seven years at a small college in the Midwest. Her core research interests include writing pedagogy, religious rhetorics, and digital rhetorics. Outside of her studies, she enjoys running and reading science fiction.
  • Liz Miller (she/her/hers) is a PhD student in Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy at Ohio State. Her current research delves into care networks among graduate students, particularly focusing on mental health strategies for surviving in a disabling institution. She is also the graduate research associate for the Building Healthcare Collectives project, an interdisciplinary collaboration that seeks to foster work at the intersections of medicine, rhetoric, and disability studies.
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Pedagogue is committed to facilitating conversations that move across institutions and positions (from senior teacher-scholars to emerging teacher-scholars). You can always read more about Pedagogue here. We're happy to support the voices that make and sustain our work. 

Thanks for listening, 
-S



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