As you may have noticed, I’ve been away from this blog for a while. Last semester, I had such great and seemingly attainable plans to post the full 15 weeks of assignments and exercises for my composition classes. But once I got papers to grade, which I think was Week 3, well, I was pretty busy and guess I (rightfully so) valued spending time helping my students over any other ventures and just stopped posting. If you were looking forward to getting details on full semester, I do apologize. However, I am eager to share my ideas and plan to “publish” in one way or another, a full 15-week assignment sequence, with details on both in-class and out-of-class exercises and assignments as well as explanations for why I am assigning these and what I hope to accomplish with each (I’ve also got some good ideas for changes next semester). I’m on sabbatical this semester (my first ever) and am focusing on creative writing but I will find time to get this assignment sequence all together and ready for consumption. In the meantime, please email me at steve.nelson38@yahoo.com if you have any questions. And for those of you who were able to attend my presentation at the CCCC Conference in Chicago last week, thanks again for attending and I hope you found the presentation and find my book helpful. The slides from the Powerpoint are available for conference attendees on the Whova app. Keep up the good work.
If you to read more about my teaching, check out my other blog posts or my book Teaching The Way: Using the Principles of The Art of War to Teach Composition: https://amzn.to/3mwbz3y
Teaching The Way 