We’ll use Perusall to annotate and read together.
Instructions for joining on the Assignments page.
Our course invites you to work with data collection and analysis, readings, and discussion around the field of literacy studies
As said by my dad, “With advances in mobile electronics and applications, I believe reading and writing skills are more critical than when I was growing up. This is a shift from verbal communications then, to more written communications now. Additionally, the availability of reading materials has exploded; most books are available online and instantly. …
I interviewed a friend of mine in Japan. She studies English and got an education in Japan from childhood. I picked up two questions and answers from the interview to see how her reading and writing changed before and after she entered school. Q. Try to think of your earliest memories of writing and reading. …
When I first looked at the paper for our literacy narratives, I couldn’t decide on who to interview. I thought that immediate family would be a bit too cliche. My mind wouldn’t stop racing on who to interview, so I decided to tweak the assignment to add diversity and possibly a writing sample for my …
I decided to interview my mom via email for the Literacy Narrative assignment. She is in her mid 50’s and is a Chico State alum from waayyy back in the day. She is the second youngest of five children raised my my grandparents, neither of whom attended college. My mom’s responses were pretty neat and …
Part of Scott’s Interview: Do you like to write? Um I am sorta bad sorta good and I just wrote a big story called “The Three Adventurers” about meerkats that venture out. The reason I wrote it about meerkats was that because we were learning about them and that was one of our homework assignments …
Proud to announce that our book, which focuses on teaching writing in the sciences, is available from TCPress and Amazon.
You will also find supplemental materials, including detailed lesson plans, on our companion site also called Composing Science.
California State University, Chico
Website: kimjaxon.com/me
Email: kjaxon@csuchico.edu
Email for sharing Google Docs:
kjaxon@mail.csuchico.edu