Category: Writing Strategies

  • Jump-Starting Summer Writing with a Writing Residency

    This week, Peter Felten, Michael Strickland, and I are facilitating the annual Faculty Writing Residency for Elon faculty working on scholarship related to teaching and learning. Once a year, we invite faculty to apply for the four-day writing residency, and we typically accept 9 to 15 participants (depending on their writing projects). Then, about a…

  • Things I Learned During My Sabbatical (In Progress)

    I still have a few weeks of sabbatical left, but recently, I’ve been reflecting on my sabbatical experience. Here are a few things I’ve learned: Everyone has their own vision of a sabbatical. I’ve had to learn not to react when people voice frustration that my approach to a sabbatical doesn’t match how they would…

  • Prioritizing my Writing

    I’ll be writing less in this space for a few months while I’m on sabbatical and prioritizing work on my research project (a comprehensive mapping of the field of second language writing)… Watch the twitter feed for strategies and relevant articles; I’ll continue to post under @writing_faculty when I come across helpful resources or articles.