Author Videos
Twenty-seven short videos in which the authors of Everyone's an Author answer questions they're often asked by other instructors, about this book and also about common teaching practices: Can everyone today really be an author? How can you create effective collaborative assignments? How can you incorporate style into your writing? And more....
Everyone's an Author is a provocative title. What does it mean in general and in this book? |
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You and Lisa Ede are known for your scholarly work on audience and collaboration. How does that work inform Everyone's an Author? If everyone's an author, where does that leave the audience? |
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You've been a strong voice in disagreeing with those who claim that Google is making us stupid. Can you explain your argument, and how it plays out in this book? |
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What role does technology play in making everyone an author? |
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How do you engage students in collaborative work and convince them of the importance of collaboration? |
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How do you create effective collaborative assignments? |
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How have digital media affected the concept of audience and the way students now interact with audiences? |
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In an age of Google and social media, how can rhetoric help students? |
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How can teachers make the best use of writing centers? |
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Is a physical space required to have a writing center? |
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How has working in a writing center influenced your teaching? |
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How can writing centers well serve people who speak different languages? |
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What are the factors to consider when referring someone to a writing center? |
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What are the most important issues in writing tutor courses? |
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What are some of the issues that should be covered in tutor-training classes? |
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Why should a student become a tutor? |
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Define multimodal. |
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How does multimodal writing compare to traditional written essays? |
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How do you start incorporating multimodal composition into a class? |
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How do you help students decide the best media to use? |
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What about when teachers aren't confident about the media? |
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Do some students take the process of working with media less seriously? Do they see it as just having fun? |
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What about visual rhetoric? |
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Can you talk about the importance of practice? |
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Since the United States is increasingly multilingual, what advice do you have for teachers whose classes include both monolingual and multilingual students? |
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What advice do you have for teachers for incorporating style into their teaching? What two or three issues do you think they should focus on? |
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What does it mean to think about writing from a functional perspective? |
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