About the Conference The Conference on the Teaching of Writing provides professional development for writing educators. It attracts instructors and administrators of writing programs from across the world. UConn First-Year Writing presents the 20th annual Conference on the Teaching of Writing Joy to You and Me: Making Space for Joy in the Writing Classroom April […]
Author: Nakhle, Marie Nour
The Audio Manifesto as Social Practice by Matt Gagnon
Start with Yourself: The Audio Manifesto as Social Practice By Matt Gagnon (Interim Writing Coordinator, Hartford Campus) Sine Hebdo: You have always challenged the posture of the scholar and the authority of the master in general. Would you nevertheless define yourself as an intellectual? Jacques Rancière: Not if it means belonging to a category whose […]
The Sound of Silence by Ruba Bouzan
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 […]
Inquiries for Dissensus by Lisa Blansett and Marie Nour Nakhle
“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 […]