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Bad Ideas about Writing is an open-access book edited by Cheryl E. Ball and Drew M. Loewe that counters major myths about writing instruction. Written for a general audience, the collection offers opinionated, research-based statements intended to spark debate and to offer a better way of teaching writing.

The podcast is unaffiliated with the editors or authors and read by Dr. Kyle Stedman from Rockford University. All donations and ad revenue support the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund and the Computers and Writing Graduate Research Network.

Bad Ideas about Writing Kyle Stedman

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Bad Ideas about Writing is an open-access book edited by Cheryl E. Ball and Drew M. Loewe that counters major myths about writing instruction. Written for a general audience, the collection offers opinionated, research-based statements intended to spark debate and to offer a better way of teaching writing.

The podcast is unaffiliated with the editors or authors and read by Dr. Kyle Stedman from Rockford University. All donations and ad revenue support the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund and the Computers and Writing Graduate Research Network.

    A Final Reflective Episode

    A Final Reflective Episode

    I (@kstedman) finished reading Bad Ideas about Writing. What's left to say?

    A lot, apparently. This final reflective episode is not found in the book; instead, it records some of the genesis of this podcast project, some details about how I made it, lots of random thoughts about scholarly audiobooks, and fewer thanks than I should have included. It's not required listening; think of it as the director's commentary.

    The transcript is available in this Google Doc.

    • 30 min
    63: Anyone Can Teach Writing, by Seth Kahn

    63: Anyone Can Teach Writing, by Seth Kahn

    Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Anyone Can Teach Writing," by Seth Kahn. It's a chapter first published in Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

    Keywords: academic labor, adjunct, contingent, non-tenure-track faculty, writing program administration/administrators, writing studies

    Seth Kahn is an English professor at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. He researches and writes about academic labor, especially adjunct labor equity. He also serves on the board of the New Faculty Majority Foundation and has co-chaired labor/contingent faculty committees in several professional organizations. (2017 bio)

    As always, the theme music is "Parade" by nctrnm, and both the book and podcast are licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The full book was published by the West Virginia University Libraries and Digital Publishing Institute; find it online for free at https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas.

    All ad revenue will be split between the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund and the Computers and Writing Graduate Research Network.

    • 16 min
    62: Anyone Can Teach an Online Writing Course, by Beth L. Hewett

    62: Anyone Can Teach an Online Writing Course, by Beth L. Hewett

    Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Anyone Can Teach an Online Writing Course," by Beth L. Hewett. It's a chapter first published in Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

    Keywords: online learning, online writing instruction, OWI, reading online, reading to learn, writing feedback, writing online, writing process

    Beth L. Hewett is an expert in online literacy instruction, the founding president of the Global Society for Online Literacy Educators, and the owner of Defend and Publish, an adult writing-coaching business. She is the author of numerous books, articles, and book chapters regarding writing in a digital era. Her most recent books include Teaching Writing in the Twenty-First Century and Administering Writing Programs in the Twenty-First Century, both from MLA Press. (2020 bio)

    As always, the theme music is "Parade" by nctrnm, and both the book and podcast are licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The full book was published by the West Virginia University Libraries and Digital Publishing Institute; find it online for free at https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas.

    All ad revenue will be split between the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund and the Computers and Writing Graduate Research Network.

    • 18 min
    61: Face-to-Face Courses Are Superior to Online Courses, by Tiffany Bourelle and Andy Bourelle

    61: Face-to-Face Courses Are Superior to Online Courses, by Tiffany Bourelle and Andy Bourelle

    Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Face-to-Face Courses Are Superior to Online Courses" by Tiffany Bourelle and Andy Bourelle (@AndrewBourelle). It's a chapter first published in Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

    Keywords: asynchronous methods, face-to-face instruction (f2f), MOOCs, multimodal composition, online writing instruction (OWI), synchronous methods

    Tiffany Bourelle is an associate professor of English at the University of New Mexico, where she teaches classes in online and multimodal pedagogies and administers eComp, the department's first-year online writing program. She is the coauthor of the books Teaching Writing in the 21st Century and Administering Writing Programs in the 21st Century, as well as co-editor of the anthology Women's Professional Lives in Rhetoric and Composition: Choice, Chance, and Serendipity. Her scholarly articles have been published in Computers and Composition, Kairos, Technical Communication Quarterly, WPA: Writing Program Administration, and other journals and anthologies. (2022 bio)

    Andrew Bourelle is an associate professor of English at the University of New Mexico, where he teaches classes in composition, creative writing, professional and technical writing, and rhetoric. He is the author of the novels 48 Hours to Kill and Heavy Metal. His scholarly articles have appeared in Communication Design Quarterly, Composition Forum, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Journal of Teaching Writing, and other publications. (2022 bio)

    As always, the theme music is "Parade" by nctrnm, and both the book and podcast are licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The full book was published by the West Virginia University Libraries and Digital Publishing Institute; find it online for free at https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas.

    All ad revenue will be split between the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund and the Computers and Writing Graduate Research Network.

    • 15 min
    60: Secondary-School English Teachers Should Only Be Taught Literature, by Elizabethada A. Wright

    60: Secondary-School English Teachers Should Only Be Taught Literature, by Elizabethada A. Wright

    Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Secondary-School English Teachers Should Only Be Taught Literature" by Elizabethada A. Wright. It's a chapter first published in Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

    Keywords: secondary English education programs, rhetoric, AP Central, writing pedagogy, first-year writing

    Professor at University of Minnesota Duluth, Elizabethada A. Wright teaches in the Department of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies and is a member of the faculty at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities’ Literacy and Rhetorical Studies Program. She is co-editor and contributor to Catholic Women’s Rhetoric in the United States: Ethos, the Patriarchy, and Feminist Resistance. She has published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Rhetoric Review, College English Association Critic, Studies in the Literary Imagination, as well as in a number of other journals and books. (2022 bio)

    As always, the theme music is "Parade" by nctrnm, and both the book and podcast are licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The full book was published by the West Virginia University Libraries and Digital Publishing Institute; find it online for free at https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas.

    All ad revenue will be split between the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund and the Computers and Writing Graduate Research Network.

    • 19 min
    59: Dual-Enrollment Writing Classes Should Always Be Pursued, by Caroline Wilkinson

    59: Dual-Enrollment Writing Classes Should Always Be Pursued, by Caroline Wilkinson

    Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Dual-Enrollment Writing Classes Should Always Be Pursued" by Caroline Wilkinson (@wilkicg). It's a chapter first published in Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

    Keywords: college-level writing, composition/rhetoric, dual enrollment, writing studies, writing-program administration

    Caroline Wilkinson is an associate professor of English at New Jersey City University. She writes about dual-enrollment writing courses and the relationship between high schools and colleges. She also writes about the portrayals of what college-level writing might mean. (2020 bio)

    As always, the theme music is "Parade" by nctrnm, and both the book and podcast are licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The full book was published by the West Virginia University Libraries and Digital Publishing Institute; find it online for free at https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas.

    All ad revenue will be split between the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund and the Computers and Writing Graduate Research Network.

    • 16 min

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