Let’s get some things out of the way: We all are experts here in our area. Most of us have teaching or speaking experience. We all know our main goal of creating a course is to help our audience/clients improve in the area we excel in. We also USUALLY take time to consider what they …
Everyone and their brother wants to create an online course. The idea of residual income, making money while sleeping, building credibility in your field, and getting exposure, all are almost too good to let go by without at least trying to publish a course. We have all seen solid, quality courses, and some really crappy …
When will people start coming to my website? When will people follow me? When will they see all my hard work? Unfortunately though, just because you build it doesn’t mean they will come. We have all struggled with this in our online marketing, sales, and social media work. We can be the best in our …
I get the whole idea that it is important to claim expert status… but come on people, be an actual expert first. I know that many of us feel like we are “faking it” because many of us need to be confident because we truly are experts in our field but our confidence in ourselves …
News is fake news if: The information was created with an emotional, angry or happy, news castor, it’s fake news. The information has little to no reference to what the original text or speaker said, it’s fake news. The news castor ONLY picked out the pieces that they agree or disagree with to pick apart, it’s …
What do we need to do to really connect to this generation of students? How can we inspire them to accomplish and learn without feeling like we need to do it for them? Can we use the new forum of webinars, workshops, and blog articles with condensed and concise information to hold their attention and …
Changing to Webinar-Style Education: Is it possible?Read More »
What’s so hard about it? Why do English teachers struggle with teaching writing? What can we do about it? What’s so difficult about teaching writing? For most writers, we are so passionate about writing and practice is so much that we learn the skills without realizing it. Think about it like this: What is something that …
Downloadable Worksheet Time— Rhetorical Appeals: for analyzing expository texts!! Who else is excited?!? One thing that I promised you is that I would provide worksheets and activities for you to practice college writing at home at least once a week, so here is the first of many. Description of Rhetorical Appeals Activity: This worksheet is …
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I get it. Writing Curriculum all seems to have been done before, but has it? I have looked through curriculum after curriculum claiming to prepare students for college writing. However, the curriculum is filled with text after text of comprehension questions that, in all honesty, are a waste of time. Comprehension questions, once students are …
Everyone uses rhetoric. Rhetoric is the way that we talk to convince people of what we want them to believe. Rhetoric is not only a formal persuasive speech. Each day we live, every moment we communicate we are attempting to convince others to believe us. We try to convince them to believe that we are …