Pedagogical Notes, Professional Development Advice and Resources
This page provides links to documents that focus on various elements of professional and academic success. If you are here because I sent you, then look for the entry you need among the links below. Unless this becomes unwieldy, I won't provide a search engine for locating specific entries.
If you are here because of random chance, or because this content came up in a search, then poke about, and read if you see something useful or interesting. If you are a teacher in any context, and would like to use any of this content in your courses, feel free to do so. However, if you do so, please do two things:
- give me credit for my work in your class, and
- share with me that you are using this material. If you adapt or alter the content, please share with me how you did so. (I appreciate seeing the ways that others apply the ideas I have developed.)
Pedagogical Notes
The following links direct you to pages that supplement information for all courses, including course policies (a must read), some context for how I conceptualize writing and design courses, and some notes about me and my teaching philosophies.
- Core expectations for professionalism and learning. (Under revision.) In this article, I describe my expectations about what happens in a professional and technical writing class. In the process of doing so, I also describe some of the philosophy and ethics that drive this work for me.
- Busting myths about writing and design. (Under revision.) Students sometimes enter professional and technical writing classes with misconceptions about what it means to engage in this kind work. This article identifies and dispels some of those myths.