I am facing a new difficulty this term. Some of my students are too engaged.

Your friends at the Undergraduate Writing Center have published the latest issue of Praxis: A Writing Center Journal. This issue's theme is "Diversity in the Writing Center," and we have a number of articles that should be of interest to people on this blog, particularly in the areas of ESL education, writing instruction, and writing center pedagogy.

As I understand it, one of the great triumphs of the software industry was to let users create their own communities - where they often found and corrected bugs and other technical issues before the company did. As a result, the user had a hand in defining the product and its use.

I find that a similar thing has developed with my class blog. I assigned a number of blog posts about the class reading. These posts were due before class and were meant to provide material for class discussion as well as compel students to actually do the reading.

write poems!!

So, on a whim (sort of), I set up a forum for original poems. That is, poems written by students in my E314 Reading Poetry class. I sensed I had a number of writers, but was a little hesitant to ask them to actually lay it out.