Month: January 2018
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Why Your First Assignment of the Semester Should Be a Narrative
An interesting shift has happened over the last couple decades in the world of business. The spreadsheet loving, dollars and cents world of business has fallen head over heels for the decidedly unspreadsheet world of storytelling. This can be best seen in the evolution of advertising. Even during the 1990s, commercials were largely information/tagline dissemination…
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Relationship-Based Writing
In one of my first posts of this blog I talked about a subject that I think doesn’t get nearly enough attention: writing is really hard. We all know that it is hard, but I’m not sure that during our day-in and day-out dealings with student writing we appreciate enough how incredibly hard it is…
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Creating a Narrative of Progress
Since the new year I have spent a lot of time doing two things: responding to a massive stack of student essays and slowly working through Thomas Newkirk’s Embarrassment: And the Emotional Underlife of Learning. While some might pity me for spending much of my week off reading and responding, I am not one of…
Matthew M. Johnson 