Tag: Writing

Undergraduate Column: Talk To Us About Your Writing Process

Post author By aoleary4
Post date April 19, 2017

Fenwick Library

For many undergraduate writers, being introduced and reintroduced to the writing process is an important part of learning to write in an academic community. Some of the most important aha moments I’ve had as an undergraduate writer have come from these infrequent opportunities to listen to my professors talk about their own writing, their experiences as writers, and their strategies for overcoming difficulties. I find this especially true as I take courses on the 300 and 400-levels. As my writing becomes more intensive, the insights I can gain from conversations with professors about their own writing has become invaluable.

Tags academic, Feedback, process, research, Writing

Faculty Writing Graduate Students Interviews Undergraduate Perspectives

Announcing Writers of Mason!

Post author By clarelmoore
Post date February 16, 2017

At heart, all university campuses are communities of writers.

In Mason’s Writing Across the Curriculum Program, we work with a diverse array of writers. Mason’s students write in multiple contexts, with different styles, and for a variety of purposes. Our faculty teach writing in classrooms, seminars, and as part of their local and global field projects. Students and faculty alike contribute to the literature of their scholarly, research, creative, and professional communities.

Tags George Mason University, humans of new york, profile, project, WAC, writers of mason, Writing, Writing Across the Curriculum

Modules Teaching Writing

Talking About Writing: An Exercise

Post author By caitlincholmes
Post date March 3, 2016

Tags composition, in-class writing, Writing

Graduate Students Teaching Writing

“Evolution not Revolution”: Empathy as Supportive Practice

Post author By caitlincholmes
Post date February 11, 2016

By: Rachael Burke

Rachael Burke is a second-year Writing and Rhetoric PhD student at George Mason University. Her research centers on empathic articulation and social-emotional design. She has taught composition, ESL, and interdisciplinary studies, and she is currently teaching at GMU and Northern Virginia Community College. You can reach her at rburke13@gmu.edu.

This post is the second in a series on empathy and writing scholarship. For Rachael’s first post, please click here.

In my previous post, I discussed what empathy is partly by talking a bit about what it is not. The challenge presented by proposing we should actively include empathy as a curricular goal is convincing writing teachers that the change is a natural and necessary one. Consequently, my previous entry began the task of examining and overturning a few misconceptions that have long plagued how we talk about empathy in rhetoric and composition (when we talk about it at all), and then suggesting that a more constructive definition of empathy might help us reinvigorate some of our problematic or confusing writing practices. In this entry, I want to continue to expand our understanding of empathy in rhetorical practice on our own disciplinary terms.