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John Constantine Tobin

Confronting and Adapting to Contextual Factors during a Pandemic at the End of a Condensed Term

This was not an ordinary semester: personally, externally, politically, institutionally, virtually. But let’s start with personal...

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Teaching During an Election Year: Institutional, Geographic and Political Contexts in Composition

Recently in my pedagogy course, we read “Here They Do This, There They Do That: Latinas/Latinos Writing Across Institutions” Todd Ruecker...

John Constantine Tobin

In the Composition Classroom, ‘Writing’ Is a Reductive Term

As the weeks go by, I am further exposed to what composition can be. The singular notion that the space I occupy in my classroom is as a...

John Constantine Tobin

Course Planning, Teaching Observation, Subconscious Assessment and the Persistence of Time

For newly minted teachers of ENG101 in the doctoral program at Southern Miss, the first half of the course is mapped out in a general...

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An Emergent Composition Pedagogy: The Interconnectedness of the Graduate Student

Each day these concepts from my doctorate become more and more interconnected with one another. It’s a weekly inundation of theories...

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College Professors Don’t Know How to Teach ...amirite?

During my undergraduate days, I remember a common saying among my classmates that college professors don’t know how to teach. This...

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Teaching Begins Anew ...Virtually

It’s been two years since I last taught College Composition at the University of Baltimore for my MFA degree. This week, I stepped into...