The Importance of Stories: Narrative and Empathy during COVID-19 (Pandemic Pivot Series)
By Owen Cantrell (ocantrell1@gsu.edu) As we sit in the face of over 100,000 deaths and nearly 25% unemployment in the United States, the problems of pedagogy are hard to think of as essential. It is often difficult to know what is happening and especially how to make...
Beyond the Classroom Walls
by Tamara Shue (tshue@gsu.edu) Phones attached to their hands, short attention spans. Instructors often think of these characteristics when we think of millennials. By the same token, millennials live in a world that—thanks primarily...
Changing the Face of Service Learning in the Online Public Speaking Course: The Persuasive Community Advocacy Speech (Teaching Tip)
by Bettina Benoit Durant Assistant Professor of Communication and Journalism, Georgia State University Goal of the Assignment: The goal of this persuasive speech assignment is to get students engaged and to provide students with the principles of...
Students Stretching Past Summary Toward Analysis: The APATSARC Drill in Composition
By Rebecca Weaver (rweaver@gsu.edu) For the last dozen years or so, I have been teaching something I call “The APATSARC Drill” in my composition classes. Students use it to do an analytical drill of a non-fiction text (usually a news column) we’ve read together,...
Watching before Writing: Integrating Visual and Verbal Literacy in the Composition Classroom
By Charles Fox (cfox4@gsu.edu) In his essay, “How to Teach Film Adaptations, and Why,” Thomas Leitch argues for restructuring English departments in a way that more accurately reflects our new vision of that which is literary. Whereas in a traditional English...Subscribe by Email
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