Kevin Barksdale (Marshall University) and Ken Fones-Wolf (West Virginia University) assembled this collection of essays, mostly from the journal they edit, West Virginia History, to serve as a reader for courses on the Mountain State’s history.
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The 2017 directory for the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) at West Virginia University is an open-access resource for faculty instructors to learn about each others' scholarly–pedagogical work and to build collaborations where possible. This inaugural SoTL directory began as a collaboration between the Teaching and Learning Commons and the Digital Publishing Institute, and we hope it introduces you to a few of the scholars on campus doing outstanding pedagogical research.
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Bad Ideas About Writing counters major myths about writing instruction. Inspired by the provocative science- and social-science-focused book This Idea Must Die and written for a general audience, the collection offers opinionated, research-based statements intended to spark debate and to offer a better way of teaching writing. Contributors, as scholars of rhetoric and composition, provide a snapshot of major myths about writing instruction in these essays. This collection is published in whole by the Digital Publishing Institute and in part by Inside Higher Ed.
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Derek Mueller advocates for a methodology that will be used to visualize and understand networks better in his book Network Sense. Mueller’s methodology combines distant reading with thin description in a way that allows academics to avoid the obsessive depth of thick description. Distant reading and thin description complement rational logics with networks of association in a way that affords inquiry and discovery for newcomers and seasoned scholars alike. This book is published by the WAC Clearinghouse/Colorado State University Open Press #writing book series.
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