Presentations
The talks I give in class, and one for other teachers. Each one reads as a page, with notes under every slide, and turns into slides for the projector with one button.
- Revision: Seeing It AgainA workshop day for revising a draft four ways, one station at a time, from rethinking the whole piece down to how its sentences sound.
- Standing Challenges: From an Idea to a First PageA class period of four timed rounds that takes each student from no topic to a challenge, a genre, two samples, and the first page of a draft.
- Using AI to Teach BetterA short talk for teachers on bringing AI into a writing course without losing the process.
- What Is This Document For?Genre as social action, put to work on workplace writing. A revision workshop for résumés and cover letters, read the way a hiring reader reads them, then a report's skeleton borrowed from a one-page government summary, meeting minutes someone can act on, and an interview request that's easy to say yes to.
- Freewriting: Where It Came FromWhat freewriting is, who passed it along before Peter Elbow made it famous, and a timed freewrite to try.
- Genres and ConventionsWhat a genre is, why its conventions are the paths through it, and how both shape the decisions you make for an audience.
- Research: How Does It Start?How Joan Didion's “In Bed” turns her own migraines into research, and what that shows about where a research question starts.
What people at my talks have sent me: From the rooms →