rebecca pope-ruark

Monthly Archives: May 2018

This is the second post from a series I wrote in 2012 about writing and publishing with undergraduate students. I’ll be publishing this series every other Thursday over the summer. For more recent research and resources, visit the new International Journal for Students as Partners and a special issue of Teaching and Learning Inquiry that I co-edited on students as co-inquirers. What exactly does it mean to include student voices in Scholarship… Read More

Do you have a personal or professional manifesto? Seems lofty, right? Maybe even a little pretentious? I went through a phase during my MA program in which I put my “mission statement” on every resume rather than an objective – I still cringe thinking about it now (and use it as an example of what not to do in job materials). But a mission statement isn’t a manifesto, a call to action,… Read More

This post and the series of posts that follows over the next few weeks were originally written in 2012 on my first blog.  I’ve kept them mostly intact while updating some of the links. I hope these posts will help you think about writing and publishing with undergrads in the future! The idea of co-presenting at a conference or co-authoring a research article with a graduate student makes total sense to anyone… Read More

In my January post about planning for 2018 with user stories, I shared three of my epics for the year, related to my work as coordinator of our Professional Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) program, faculty leader of the Design Thinking Studio in Social Innovation, and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning researcher and writer. Below is an update on my progress during the first third of 2018 – a review or demo of… Read More