Teaching Writing in College
Tom Skeen
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36. The STAR Criteria and Thinking about Evidence Rhetorically
For episode 36, I share a helpful acronym from Richard Fulkerson called the STAR criteria. STAR can prompt learners (or all of us) to ask: is my support sufficient, typical, accurate, and relevant?…
35. Transparency in Writing in the Age of AI
Questions about whether and how AI is used in writing and other communication seem to be an important part of the writer/audience relationship. In this episode, I walk through my effort to include…
34. Infuse Some Sanity into Your Teaching in the Age of AI
In episode 34, I consider another way of looking at my success with AI in the classroom: through assessment. To my mind, AI has imposed a great deal of guesswork into assessment of student writing:…
33. What I Did to Start a Conversation about AI with My Students in Spring 2026
In this episode, I share a short lesson plan I used to begin a conversation with students about AI on the first day of classes. I showed them an AI-generated ad that stirred some controversy, we had…
32. Success with Teaching vis-a-vis AI
In this long overdue episode, I'm excited to share my own recent classroom success. After coaching and encouragement on my part, notetaking on my students' part, and then asking students to pull…
31. AI Policy, My Teaching Improvement Report, and More
After my first week of teaching this semester, it's time for a report. I promised to share my AI policy, which will be first up in this episode. I'll also share my classroom "coaching" report.…
30. Handwriting, Practice, Participation, and Cornell Notes
Electronic technologies have been embedded in classrooms for decades, but the emergence of genAI has prompted some professors to resort back to handwritten assessments, such as bluebooks and notes.…
29. Inviting Students to Reflect on genAI (Summer Reflection Series, Episode 6)
As a follow up to episode 28, I made a plan to introduce reflection about genAI on my first day of classes. I start by reviewing a post I encountered on social media that got me thinking in more…
28. What do Students Need to Know about genAI? (Summer Reflection Series, Episode 5)
As my start date for fall semester draws nearer, I've started thinking in more detail about the kinds of knowledge students need to help them with writing. The distinction Doug Downs and Elizabeth…
27. genAI Prompts Me to Make Adjustments in the Classroom (Summer Reflection Series, Episode 4)
In this continuation of reflection on my teaching, I present (briefly) the basic routine I use for developing lesson plans: review, launch, deliver, apply, and close (RLDAC). From there, I share two…
26. Adjusting a Lesson Plan to Accommodate Student Learning vis-a-vis genAI (Summer Reflection Series, Episode 3)
As a follow-up to episode 25, I outline changes to one of my existing lesson plans to keep student learning focused on the rhetorical strategy of presence. This episode includes a brief rehearsal…
25. AI Has a Context Problem (Summer Reflection Series, Episode 2)
Parsing the differences between writing from genAI and writing from people can be frustrating or intimidating. But it can also be fruitful for thinking about how humans and machines handle (or don't…
24. Summer Reflection Series, Episode 1: Students Can Be Accomplished Novices, and So Can Teachers
In this first episode of my summer reflection series, I explore the need for both learners and teachers to position themselves as "accomplished novices"--people who are not complete novices, but also…
23. Want to Help Students with Citations? Follow the "Penny Principle!" (part II)
Teaching Writing in College is now available on Spotify! (Please see below.)Episode 23 is a continuation of a discussion in Episode 21 about what I call the "Penny Principle"--a name I have given to…
22. GenAI Could Turn Education into an Illusion, but Do We Have to Let It?
In this long overdue episode, I offer thoughts in response to a recent article from the Chronicle of Higher Education called "In the Age of AI, Is Education Just an Illusion?" In the article, author…
21. Want to Help Your Students with Citations? Follow the Penny Principle (Part I)
Earlier this week, I came across a discussion on Facebook that questioned assumptions about citing sources--especially in an academic way. Importantly, a lot of students who take our classes might…
20. Metacognition is a Learned Skill
For a while now, I've thought of metacognition as something that can and should be taught as a skill. (I was reminded of this by a podcast episode from The Happiness Lab.) In this episode, I share a…
19. A 30-minute Activity about Student Writing in their Other Classes
In this episode, I depart briefly from my series on ROCSS (to which I will return in the next episode) to share a fun experience I had with students today. We used David Perkins and Gavriel Salomon's…
18. Writing Is Made of Genres, and Genres Are Made of ROCSS (Part IV)
In the fourth episode of this multi-part series, I provide a classroom exercise I recently used to demonstrate how additional knowledge about writing can support students' use of ROCSS. In…
17. Writing is Made of Genres, and Genres are Made of ROCSS (Part III)
In the third episode in this series, I share a paragraph from Carolyn Miller's influential article titled "Genre as Social Action." It's a passage that has stuck with me for some time and informs my…
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