Tag: writing

  • Teaching Information Literacy in an Era of Misinformation

    My new courses start tomorrow, so I’m putting the finishing touches on this week’s materials. Last summer, I encountered more challenges with generative AI-composed writing than in any previous term, so this year the theme for my writing courses is AI, research, and writing. We’ll spend the whole term considering how the dramatic increase in…

  • Hurt at Work: Workers’ Memorial Day and the Practice of a Pedagogy of Kindness

    From Cate Denial’s A Pedagogy of Kindness: “We deserve an academy that is kind. Somewhere along the way, many of us were taught that the academy should be a place of intense competition, where we had rivals, not colleagues; where the most important insights and best ideas were those that rose to the top by…

  • My Mother in the Kitchen: Unearthing Family Stories

    I come from a long line of women who enjoy feeding people. My late mother, whose birthday is today, was an excellent cook and hostess. She turned out creamy seafood lasagne for twenty without a hint of anxiety that the shrimp might be overcooked or the cream sauce curdled from sitting too long on top…