Tham, Jason. “Engaging Stories: Creating an Ethnographic Literacy Narrative Project in a First-Year Writing Course.” Minnesota Writing and English (MnWE) Conference. Inver Hills Community College, MN. March 27, 2015. The HUMN Project is a semester-long ethnographic narrative project designed to provide an opportunity for students to think about their literacy practices and those of others, and to … Continue reading Engaging Stories: The HUMN Project / MnWE Talk
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‘Don’t give them 4. Give them 2+2’
Effective storytelling is among the few units I teach in my first-year composition course. Every semester, I show Andrew Stanton's TED Talk, "The Clues to a Great Story," to the students and ask them to reflect on the traditional methods in storytelling and how they can tweak the ways to make their personal narratives interesting. … Continue reading ‘Don’t give them 4. Give them 2+2’
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