The Sound of Silence: When Students Don’t Respond to Thoughtful Questions  There’s a moment every instructor dreads—the moment when you pose a question, one designed to invite engagement, self-reflection, or critical thought, and instead, you are met with silence. Not just a pause for thinking, but an enduring, uncomfortable quiet. Eyes drop to notebooks, a […]

“Inquiry” is one of those words that you encounter almost on the daily if you teach for First-Year Writing. You’ve probably been told over and over that our program foregrounds inquiry. But what do we mean? And why?  For our purposes, an inquiry is a question that grammatically and socially invites a response. An inquiry—the […]