About this site
The mission of this website is to give writing teachers and tutors a forum to reflect on the many ways we might improve our teaching. Hosted and edited by Kathryn Evans, Revising Teaching is a group blog welcoming contributions from those who believe that good teaching, like good writing, is achieved through constant revision.
As teachers contributing to this website, we recognize the ever-shifting rhetorical situation present in each class we teach, we imagine and choose among multiple ways to address our diverse audiences, and we continuously assess how our work in progress might be revised. Our teaching isn’t perfect—no one’s is—but for us there is no greater challenge than trying to make it so.
If you are interested in writing a contribution for Revising Teaching, you should feel free to do any of the following:
As teachers contributing to this website, we recognize the ever-shifting rhetorical situation present in each class we teach, we imagine and choose among multiple ways to address our diverse audiences, and we continuously assess how our work in progress might be revised. Our teaching isn’t perfect—no one’s is—but for us there is no greater challenge than trying to make it so.
If you are interested in writing a contribution for Revising Teaching, you should feel free to do any of the following:
- describe a revision that you—or a colleague—have made to your teaching, including what led to the change and, if applicable, the results of the change
- describe an extended teaching moment—one in which you tried to teach something, found that it didn’t work, and tried it another way (an on-the-spot teaching revision)
- quote a research report, theoretical article, or practitioner-oriented work (from composition studies or any other field) that you feel has important implications for revising teaching; briefly discuss these implications and, if possible, provide the full citation
- link to a story or website you think is important, give an overview of the contents of the site, and briefly discuss the implications you see for revising the teaching of writing
- tell stories or quote student comments that validate common practices, letting us know that past revisions to our practices have indeed been successful and perhaps motivating us to more thoroughly integrate such practices into our teaching