As a writing instructor, one of my objectives is to guide students toward writing papers to their specific audience while still clearly and effectively communicating their position. Another important objective is to teach students to critically read, evaluate, and revise their own writing, and thus become independent academic writers and more effective written communicators in society. Also critical to effective independent and academic writing is credibility. Students learn about credibility issues throughout the semester with discussions of plagiarism, source selection, integration, and documentation. In addition, another of my instructional strategies is to intelligently integrate technology to aid students in appreciating and improving their writing and writing process. At the end of each semester, I review the effectiveness of my teaching approach. I review the challenges the students faced in their writing or with the technology and I make changes to or develop new syllabi, assignments, handouts, and activities that effectively meet the needs of the students while still fulfilling the course objectives. |  | | | __________________________________ |
My teaching philosophy integrates current technology into the writing process and combines the elements of audience awareness, process pedagogy, collaborative discussions, and persuasion techniques. My course objectives, syllabi, and assignment sheets all focus on the student gradually taking responsibility for learning in an academic environment.
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