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Ace That Class: 7 Things to Help You Pass
Madison Kriege | September 21, 2018Higher Education, Pearson StudentsCollege is hard. You spend hours working yet sometimes feel defeated and it is easy to attribute a bad...
A Life Lesson in a Math Class
Grace Driggers | September 12, 2018Higher EducationI walked into the classroom slowly, yawning as I searched for a seat. It was eight in the morning,...
A teachable moment
Emily Lai, PhD, Pearson | September 11, 2018Higher Education, UncategorizedNevertheless, a series produced with Storythings, celebrates women both inside and outside of Pearson who are using technology to transform...
Cracking the code to creativity
Pearson | September 6, 2018Higher EducationElaine Cohen is a professor of computer science at the University of Utah. She inspired Bruce Gooch to pick...
Digital learning tools foster student engagement and success
Pearson | August 30, 2018Higher EducationHigher education is moving into a new phase when it comes to the power of technology in the classroom....
Professionalism in vivo: Graduate students on Facebook
Christopher Andrew, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi | August 20, 2018Higher EducationThis study describes how doctoral students make use of Facebook as a professional academic tool rather than just a...
Review of Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age
Asmaa Mansour, The University of Texas at San Antonio | August 20, 2018Higher EducationAs I compose this review, hundreds of social movements have just erupted and others have continued since the first...
Counter Stories: Brotherhood in a Latinx Fraternity
Dr. Octavio Pimentel, Texas State University | August 20, 2018Higher EducationAs Krogstad (2016) reports, the “Latino population has reached fifty-seven million in the United States, with California having more...
Editor’s Introduction: A Spotlight on Marginalized Communities
Yndalecio Isaac Hinojosa, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi | August 12, 2018Higher EducationBienvenidos! Welcome! I am excited to present the 2018 issue of Open Words (OW) that features Octavio Pimentel, Professor...
Recognizing Deaf Writers as Second Language Learners: Transforming the Approach to Working with ASL Speakers in the Writing Center
Victoria Ramirez Gentry, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi | August 12, 2018Higher EducationAs a writing consultant at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi’s Center for Academic Student Achievement (CASA) Writing Center, I have...
“It’s Essentially Writers Talking about Writing”: The Roles of Reflection in a Co-Curricular Writing Studio Course
Jerrice Donelson, Michigan State University, Anthony DeGenaro, Wayne State University, and William DeGenaro, University of Michigan Dearborn | August 12, 2018Higher EducationWhat is Writing Studio? As writing programs shutter basic writing courses in favor of more ethical models of instruction...
Review of Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and assessing for a socially just future
Christine Watson, Biola University | August 12, 2018Higher EducationExperienced writing instructors are familiar with the all-too-common narrative students tell: they hate writing, or they enjoy writing, but...
Review of The Desire for Literacy: Writing in the Lives of Adult Learners
Corey D. Greathouse, Austin Community College | August 12, 2018Higher EducationIn The Desire for Literacy: Writing in the Lives of Adult Learners, Lauren Rosenberg offers readers insight to the...
Review of Poetry Wars: Verse and Politics in the American Revolution and Early Republic
Jamie Crosswhite, The University of Texas at San Antonio | August 12, 2018Higher EducationWithin the first twenty pages of Poetry Wars: Verse and Politics in the American Revolution and Early Republic, Colin...
Review of What Democracy Looks Like: The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics
Jennifer Keizer, The University of Texas at San Antonio | August 12, 2018Higher EducationThis collection of essays challenges conventional frameworks of social movements and counterpublics. By putting the two fields of rhetoric...
Review of Writing Pathways to Student Success
Casey Sigerman, The University of Texas at San Antonio | August 12, 2018Higher EducationIn Writing Pathways for Student Success, editors Lillian Craton, Renée Love, and Sean Barnette bring together essays that examine...
Deliberative Acts in Reclaiming Hays Street Bridge in San Antonio
Sonya Eddy, University of Texas at San Antonio | August 12, 2018Higher EducationThe Hays Street Bridge in San Antonio, Texas is a reclaimed public space that the community may access for...
Inclusive Access study tracks student access and cost savings at University of Iowa
University of Iowa | August 8, 2018Higher Education, Success StoriesInclusive Access via the Direct Integration program at University of Iowa has enabled all students to access the course...