Teaching Writing: Ideas and Strategies

This episode gives an overview of Chapter Two of the Concise Guide to Technical Communication where we discuss ethical issues that come up in technical communication.

What possessed us to write the Concise Guide to Technical Communication? In this episode Heather Graves and Roger Graves talk about why they wrote this new book and how their research and academic work contributed to it.

This episode provides an overview of how audience, purpose, genre and medium affect the choices you need to make as you communicate.

In Chapter 3 of the Concise Guide to Technical Communication from Broadview Press, we discuss ways to generate information for technical documents through interviews, surveys, and online research. This podcast provides an overview and introduction to the chapter.

Cosette Lemelin and Roger Graves talk about The Talk: how should instructors go about conducting and interview with a student about a possible, probable, or even blatant academic integrity violation? We identify strategies and profile four different kinds of strategies students tend to use when they arrive for these conversations.

How much time should instructors devote to academic integrity? To answer that question for themselves, they need some sense of how prevalent cheating is. This podcast examines answers to that question, and looks at cheating by professors before suggesting two strategies instructors should adopt to limit cheating.

Academic integrity manifests itself somewhat differently in online instructional contexts. In this episode, Roger Graves talks with Ellen Watson of the University of Alberta's Centre for Teaching and Learning about how instructors can organize their online courses to discourage cheating and maintain the academic integrity of online learning.

This podcast is published in conjunction with a blog of the same title at https://blog.ualberta.ca and also available as an episode with the "Teaching Plus" podcast of the University of Alberta Centre for Teaching and Learning.

This episode combines ideas from the plain language movement with ideas about how to use narrative structures to explain complex research projects.

What are some best practices for teaching writing online when you've been asked to move a class online with little notice? This episode identifies 6 specific things to do to survive and maybe even thrive the abrupt move to an online learning environment.

This episode talks about how to go about drafting and revising your teaching philosophy statement. Why do you teach the way you do? How do your students learn? What new techniques do you think you'll try next?