March 1, 2019Patti Poblete has an awesome how-to conference post that's practically canonical at this point, and I still refer back to…![Green chalkboard with blue Post-It reading "If the pen is mightier than the sword, what to [sic] you have to say about the marker?"](https://vyshalimanivannan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/PostIt-Chalkboard-1024x579.jpg)
July 1, 2018Because what I really want my students to know—about the university, the course, writing—isn't what's in the syllabus, I created…
April 8, 2015In any city, in any country, in any university in which you have been enrolled, go into any classroom and…
May 6, 2010I'm a big fan of thinking exercises, short activities that model (in familiar forms) the kinds of thinking students need…
March 20, 2010I had my first-year writing literature classes read excerpts from Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red. And my students had a…
May 4, 2007This exercise focused specifically on how to approach the final portfolio, the final assignment of the semester that essentially asks…