{"id":815,"date":"2014-05-08T15:13:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T22:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=815"},"modified":"2014-05-08T15:13:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T22:13:15","slug":"writing-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2014\/05\/08\/writing-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_816\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Tina Roh, Stanford\" href=\"https:\/\/undergrad.stanford.edu\/programs\/pwr\/explore\/writing-matters-student-edition\/writing-matters-tina-roh\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-816\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-816 \" style=\"border: 3px solid black\" alt=\"Tina Roh, Stanford University Computer Science Student\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/TinaRoh-300x232.jpg?resize=300%2C232\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-816\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tina Roh, Stanford University Computer Science Student<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I had the honour of teaching students (as well as mentoring new instructors) in <a title=\"PWR program\" href=\"https:\/\/undergrad.stanford.edu\/programs\/pwr\/about-pwr\">Stanford University&#8217;s Writing and Rhetoric program<\/a> back in the day. Students from every corner of the university &#8211; from biology and engineering to sociology and English &#8211; take intensive workshops devoted to real-world research and report-writing in fields of their own interest. Tina Roh, pictured above, studied &#8220;The Rhetoric of Gaming&#8221; and composed her award-winning final paper on &#8220;software bugs in video games,&#8221; arguing that these bugs are &#8220;not necessarily harmful to games.&#8221; In preparing her paper she discovered &#8220;an entire community of gamers surrounding glitches&#8221; (I am not surprised!). She also received lots of feedback on her drafts from her friends, revising her work over and over to get it exactly right.<\/p>\n<p>The video is part of Stanford&#8217;s &#8220;<a title=\"Writing Matters\" href=\"https:\/\/undergrad.stanford.edu\/programs\/pwr\/explore\/writing-matters-student-edition\">Writing Matters: Student Edition<\/a>&#8221; series. Any teacher who wants to motivate students otherwise unsure about the utility of a writing course should play some of these videos in class. They make a solid, even inspiring case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the honour of teaching students (as well as mentoring new instructors) in Stanford University&#8217;s Writing and Rhetoric program back in the day. Students from every corner of the university &#8211; from biology and engineering to sociology and English &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2014\/05\/08\/writing-matters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,39,42],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-academic-writing","tag-feedback","tag-for-educators"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}