MLA Commons | Brooke A. Carlson | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/brooke72/activity/ Activity feed for Brooke A. Carlson. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:18:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 af5cc4b1c02e17b87faf9864f36c7ddc Brooke A. Carlson's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1688705/ Wed, 27 May 2020 00:13:51 -0400 0 a7f732b98be0a0b88fb283b07b41481b Brooke A. Carlson's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641461/ Sun, 02 Jun 2019 23:15:17 -0400 0 5cf9341d4c2bd8e918fb135d625aa241 Brooke Carlson deposited TWITAGOGY: WRITING, INFORMATION LITERACY, WRITTEN COMMUNICATION, and 21st CENTURY PEDAGOGY in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552569/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:55:59 -0400 Technology is transforming twenty-first century education. Central to the study of English Literature is critical thinking and writing, and with the advent of digital texts (along with the precursor – digitized writing) the space of the discipline continues to expand. One way to get at what is being done in the study of literature is to explore…[Read more]

]]> 0 99100c9b525c6fb7d1ca645d2cdd2c2a Brooke Carlson deposited TWITAGOGY: WRITING, INFORMATION LITERACY, WRITTEN COMMUNICATION, and 21st CENTURY PEDAGOGY in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552568/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:55:48 -0400 Technology is transforming twenty-first century education. Central to the study of English Literature is critical thinking and writing, and with the advent of digital texts (along with the precursor – digitized writing) the space of the discipline continues to expand. One way to get at what is being done in the study of literature is to explore…[Read more]

]]> 0 8fbf9395b1b909241299177997f7009d Brooke Carlson deposited TWITAGOGY: WRITING, INFORMATION LITERACY, WRITTEN COMMUNICATION, and 21st CENTURY PEDAGOGY in the group RCWS Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552567/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:55:47 -0400 Technology is transforming twenty-first century education. Central to the study of English Literature is critical thinking and writing, and with the advent of digital texts (along with the precursor – digitized writing) the space of the discipline continues to expand. One way to get at what is being done in the study of literature is to explore…[Read more]

]]> 0 2d87b6e815d9c85225849fcdf0f0e1de Brooke Carlson deposited TWITAGOGY: WRITING, INFORMATION LITERACY, WRITTEN COMMUNICATION, and 21st CENTURY PEDAGOGY in the group RCWS History and Theory of Composition https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552566/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:55:43 -0400 Technology is transforming twenty-first century education. Central to the study of English Literature is critical thinking and writing, and with the advent of digital texts (along with the precursor – digitized writing) the space of the discipline continues to expand. One way to get at what is being done in the study of literature is to explore…[Read more]

]]> 0 548568e8df78ccdf66d92bbf856fd745 Brooke Carlson deposited TWITAGOGY: WRITING, INFORMATION LITERACY, WRITTEN COMMUNICATION, and 21st CENTURY PEDAGOGY in the group GS Nonfiction Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552565/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:55:38 -0400 Technology is transforming twenty-first century education. Central to the study of English Literature is critical thinking and writing, and with the advent of digital texts (along with the precursor – digitized writing) the space of the discipline continues to expand. One way to get at what is being done in the study of literature is to explore…[Read more]

]]> 0 548568e8df78ccdf66d92bbf856fd745 Brooke Carlson deposited TWITAGOGY: WRITING, INFORMATION LITERACY, WRITTEN COMMUNICATION, and 21st CENTURY PEDAGOGY https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552564/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:55:38 -0400 Technology is transforming twenty-first century education. Central to the study of English Literature is critical thinking and writing, and with the advent of digital texts (along with the precursor – digitized writing) the space of the discipline continues to expand. One way to get at what is being done in the study of literature is to explore…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea7b051db7d648da61019f1e1d7484d3 Brooke Carlson deposited Effective Practices for Teaching Online??? in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/545451/ Tue, 08 Mar 2016 06:54:50 -0500 In 2011, U.S. News & World Report indicated that online courses had been increasing for nine straight years in a row. Or, the online presence has been continuously growing since roughly the turn of the century. The Online Learning Consortium just published a report on online learning for 2015, from which we can the pervasiveness of the online…[Read more]

]]> 0 c3f8c300c578085cf1a2c118ebd9fe31 Brooke Carlson deposited SoTL and Rubrics: Transforming Feedback to the Written Word in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/545447/ Tue, 08 Mar 2016 06:33:34 -0500 How do we offer feedback to essays? Over time, the response as narrative has become problematic. Class sizes have increased, more classes are being taught, fewer professors are teaching composition. Time has become even more scarce as duties outside the classroom multiply for full-time faculty. In addition, technology has changed the way by…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2b4c7a02099f3dc27d1a1e404d853b8 Brooke Carlson deposited SoTL and Rubrics: Transforming Feedback to the Written Word in the group RCWS History and Theory of Composition https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/545446/ Tue, 08 Mar 2016 06:33:30 -0500 How do we offer feedback to essays? Over time, the response as narrative has become problematic. Class sizes have increased, more classes are being taught, fewer professors are teaching composition. Time has become even more scarce as duties outside the classroom multiply for full-time faculty. In addition, technology has changed the way by…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2b4c7a02099f3dc27d1a1e404d853b8 Brooke Carlson deposited SoTL and Rubrics: Transforming Feedback to the Written Word https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/545445/ Tue, 08 Mar 2016 06:33:30 -0500 How do we offer feedback to essays? Over time, the response as narrative has become problematic. Class sizes have increased, more classes are being taught, fewer professors are teaching composition. Time has become even more scarce as duties outside the classroom multiply for full-time faculty. In addition, technology has changed the way by…[Read more]

]]> 0 28aef3b2e8c192a7e42380276186c8d4 Brooke Carlson deposited (Skillfully) Wielding the World-Wide Web in the Classroom: “I’m NOT Gonna Be That Creepy Guy” in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/545181/ Thu, 03 Mar 2016 06:43:55 -0500 I used to share with my classes that ebooks are outselling books, and like the music industry, the book market is now digital. While the record business has shifted in profound ways with the rise of digital technology, the book press is still in flux. Digital book sales over the past couple of years have been fluctuating around book sales. As a…[Read more]

]]> 0 b861a28718b8cccfeb0e050845cc941e Brooke Carlson deposited (Skillfully) Wielding the World-Wide Web in the Classroom: “I’m NOT Gonna Be That Creepy Guy” in the group LSL Language Change https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/545180/ Thu, 03 Mar 2016 06:43:53 -0500 I used to share with my classes that ebooks are outselling books, and like the music industry, the book market is now digital. While the record business has shifted in profound ways with the rise of digital technology, the book press is still in flux. Digital book sales over the past couple of years have been fluctuating around book sales. As a…[Read more]

]]> 0 f61bcb2c1cbc376ff47d9393dcc9e74d Brooke Carlson deposited (Skillfully) Wielding the World-Wide Web in the Classroom: “I’m NOT Gonna Be That Creepy Guy” in the group HEP Teaching as a Profession https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/545179/ Thu, 03 Mar 2016 06:43:43 -0500 I used to share with my classes that ebooks are outselling books, and like the music industry, the book market is now digital. While the record business has shifted in profound ways with the rise of digital technology, the book press is still in flux. Digital book sales over the past couple of years have been fluctuating around book sales. As a…[Read more]

]]> 0 e88380f989511cb11289864931bd1260 Brooke Carlson deposited Expository Writing in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/545174/ Thu, 03 Mar 2016 04:31:03 -0500 “The short story is better suited to the demands of modern life than the novel.” Simon Prosser, Publishing Director, Hamish Hamilton

Expository Writing is crafted to help students learn to write and think critically. In an effort to hone our critical minds and strengthen our writing, we will focus on the learned skills of summarizing, par…[Read more]

]]> 0 388bac2ee65d61097816828788129956 Brooke Carlson deposited Expository Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/545173/ Thu, 03 Mar 2016 04:31:02 -0500 “The short story is better suited to the demands of modern life than the novel.” Simon Prosser, Publishing Director, Hamish Hamilton

Expository Writing is crafted to help students learn to write and think critically. In an effort to hone our critical minds and strengthen our writing, we will focus on the learned skills of summarizing, par…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0829b5672a294bd4fd86e41ffa1828b Brooke Carlson deposited Types of Literature in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/545172/ Thu, 03 Mar 2016 04:19:15 -0500 “You taught me language, and my profit on ‘t Is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
For learning me your language!” (The Tempest, I.ii.362-4).

What does a home mean to you? Have you left it? How did you get there? Would you go back? Starting with the foundational travel narrative in Western literature, Homer’s The Odyssey…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0829b5672a294bd4fd86e41ffa1828b Brooke Carlson deposited Types of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/545171/ Thu, 03 Mar 2016 04:19:15 -0500 “You taught me language, and my profit on ‘t Is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
For learning me your language!” (The Tempest, I.ii.362-4).

What does a home mean to you? Have you left it? How did you get there? Would you go back? Starting with the foundational travel narrative in Western literature, Homer’s The Odyssey…[Read more]

]]> 0 e045df184c22b68013df5ee01669e4ed Brooke Carlson deposited Introduction to Expository Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/545169/ Thu, 03 Mar 2016 04:13:14 -0500 “You be me for a while, and I’ll be you.”
-The Replacements

Introduction to Expository Writing is designed to provide instruction and practice in writing, editing, and revising short narrative and expository essays. It will also provide instruction in organizing your material and in Standard Edited American English. The purpose of this…[Read more]

]]> 0 b9a4f802dbc78e19e370ec92841d4fd1 Brooke Carlson deposited Types of Literature in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/545165/ Thu, 03 Mar 2016 03:24:33 -0500 Where do we come from? Our families play an instrumental role in our development. Indeed, the idea of the individual, apart from the family, challenges notions of family as a continual process, as something permanent. How old is the idea that the individual can strike out on her own, separate from her family, and thus do as she pleases?…[Read more]

]]> 0 04090981eb9aac2f2508bd26c2bbf78e Brooke Carlson deposited Types of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/545164/ Thu, 03 Mar 2016 03:24:32 -0500 Where do we come from? Our families play an instrumental role in our development. Indeed, the idea of the individual, apart from the family, challenges notions of family as a continual process, as something permanent. How old is the idea that the individual can strike out on her own, separate from her family, and thus do as she pleases?…[Read more]

]]> 0 b01a5e6f6112a20f6eb9ac2c87993a29 Brooke Carlson deposited English 102 Expository Writing in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/545163/ Thu, 03 Mar 2016 03:17:41 -0500 “Expository Writing” is crafted to help students learn to write and think critically. In an effort to hone our critical minds and strengthen our writing, we will focus on the learned skills of summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting, evaluating, analyzing, and synthesizing. In addition to several short essays, you will also be writing a mul…[Read more]

]]> 0 798dfe25ff3ab32cb4c1151ed2130c0b Brooke Carlson deposited English 102 Expository Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/545162/ Thu, 03 Mar 2016 03:17:40 -0500 “Expository Writing” is crafted to help students learn to write and think critically. In an effort to hone our critical minds and strengthen our writing, we will focus on the learned skills of summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting, evaluating, analyzing, and synthesizing. In addition to several short essays, you will also be writing a mul…[Read more]

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