Teaching Revision

Teaching Revision

What is revision? Revision is a complex, iterative process where a writer makes “significant development of a text’s ideas, structure, and/or design” (Downs PAGe). Unlike editing, which involves fixing sentence-level concerns to “clean up” a piece of writing, revising...
Peer Response

Peer Response

What is peer response? Peer response — often referred to as peer review, feedback, or writing workshops — provides students a scaffolded opportunity to read, receive, and provide holistic feedback on their writing at any point in the writing process. Why is peer...
Multimodal Anthropology

Multimodal Anthropology

Roxanne Varzi is a writer, artist, filmmaker, playwright, dyslexia ally and Full Professor of Anthropology and Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She has a PhD in Social Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University, held the first...
World-Building with a Multimodal Atlas

World-Building with a Multimodal Atlas

Aaron Trammell is an Associate Professor of Informatics and has affiliations with Culture and Theory, African American Studies, and Media Studies at UC Irvine. He writes about how board games inform the lived experiences of their players. Specifically, he’s...