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We live in a highly textual world. Texts meet us and our students at every turn: on our cell phone screens, computer screens, in the news tickers that run along the bottom of our television screens, in newspapers, magazines, books, trade newsletters, email, memos, reports, billboards, advertisements, forms, bills, policies, instruction manuals. The world’s work […]

We live in a highly textual world. Texts meet us and our students at every turn: on our cell phone screens, computer screens, in the news tickers that run along the bottom of our television screens, in newspapers, magazines, books, trade newsletters, email, memos, reports, billboards, advertisements, forms, bills, policies, instruction manuals. The world’s work […]

In a recent article that appeared in the New York Times, Richard Sterling, former director of the National Writing Project, suggests that “this is not a worrying issue at all” (qtd. in Lewin, par. 3). He asserts that the text speak that is increasingly entering students’ academic writing need not be seen as problematic. This […]

In a recent article that appeared in the New York Times, Richard Sterling, former director of the National Writing Project, suggests that “this is not a worrying issue at all” (qtd. in Lewin, par. 3). He asserts that the text speak that is increasingly entering students’ academic writing need not be seen as problematic. This […]

I urge educators to promote authentic writing in the English classroom through the viewing and teaching of text as dialogic, and through this lens, it becomes possible to understand the texts that students produce in Thomas Sabo Bracelets class as responses to other texts. A dialogic understanding of text also makes it possible for educators […]