- I’m Jen Whiting and I teach first year writing at Baruch (and other places). I study education at the University of Illinois, specifically law enforcement education (currently pursuing a doctoral degree).
- I’ll be working on ENG 2150 (Writing II).
- Writing II is an intensification of Writing I. This course encourages students to read, reflect on, write about, and synthesize ideas from a range of genres and literary forms. Students examine and learn how to employ different styles, various appropriate uses of evidence and counter-evidence, multiple methods of interpretations, close readings of texts, and, finally, literary-cultural contextualizations. As the course proceeds, students further develop competency in the use and evaluation of multiple external sources as they shape and express their own ideas and cast them into well organized, thoughtful, and persuasive argumentative essays.
- The lecture series, essay prompts, and course guidance materials.
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4 replies on “Jen’s Intro”
First, LE education sounds fascinating–and challenging.
Second, are you teaching online or f2f? I’m teaching 2150 online async right now but sync next semester, and I have only vague ideas of how to sustain interest and engagement during next semester’s remote f2f days. (Also, I’ve only ever been put into breakout rooms–I’ve never had occasion to put students into them, so I have some tech anxiety, too.)
Kyllikki and Jen–I don’t formally teach writing, but writing instruction is a built-in feature, I guess, of many social science courses. Do either of you have a crib sheet for providing writing feedback to students, e.g., “there’s no topic sentence for this paragraph,” or there’s no coherency among these 3 paragraphs. I’d like to find a gentler, kindler way to critique/criticize. I’ll be doing a lot of it over VOCAT, I imagine, and I’ll be making it public for students in the course so they can learn from one another and I don’t have to say the same thing, like, 25 times.
Jen, what an interesting cohort and course. I’m curious whether or how the politics of race and police violence find their way into your students’ writing or your teaching.
Hi, Jen, I remember you from our ENG orientation at the beginning of the semester. Nice to “meet” you again. Have you taught 2100? It would be great to talk, especially about student engagement and writing.