Teaching with Technology: UNR, MLA, & OFS (Other Fun Stuff)

Resources We May Reference

An MLA Update FAQ from Bedford/St. Martin's via Macmillan Community:

How to Cite a Cereal Box using MLA by Martine Courant Rife*

*Note, this is for an older version of MLA, but still worth showing. Students can apply its lessons/method to the current version.

The Citation Project -- Rebecca Moore Howard and Sandra Jamieson

Plagiarism 101: Resources for Faculty

http://plagy101.blogspot.com/

“Inventing the University” by David Bartholomae (Journal of Basic Writing)

"Next Time, Fail Better" by Paul M. Krebs (Chronicle of Higher Education)

“Conquering the Freshman Fear of Failure by David L. Kirp (NY Times)

Carol Dweck -- The power of believing that you can improve, a Ted Talk.

James Lang on teaching transfer:

Daniel Willingham on understanding transfer:

"Why Transfer is Hard." -- from his collection of online articles on how students learn at http://www.danielwillingham.com/articles.html

Robyn R. Jackson on the first two steps on not working harder than your students:
"Start Where Your Students Are." and "Know Where Your Students are Going," chapters 1 and 2 from her book, Never Work Harder than Your Students & Other Principles of Great Teaching.

Barbara Fister
Her IHE Blog, Library Babel Fish

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish

"Teaching the Rhetorical Dimensions of Research," Research Strategies 11.4 (Fall 1993): 211-219.
http://homepages.gac.edu/~fister/rs.html

Two Handouts from the BYU Writing Center: