MLA Commons | Kate Koppy | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/kkoppy/activity/ Activity feed for Kate Koppy. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:42:45 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 d3fcfa5ad2c5c839012172f7703bf076 Kate Koppy wrote a new post, Creative Projects (Unessays) Spring 2024, on the site Narrative and Community https://katekoppy.hcommons.org/?p=504 Sat, 25 May 2024 01:36:41 -0400 In my upper-level survey and seminar classes, I assign students a final project with a lot of self-direction. They get to choose whether to work solo or in a small group (2-4 students). They get to choose whether […]

]]> 93d5a1edfc254447c560362b501089de Kate Koppy changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1849445/ Thu, 15 Jun 2023 09:24:33 -0400 0 cfdacef02eaaad36c290991bfe785d01 Kate Koppy wrote a new post, Creative Projects (Unessays) Spring 2023, on the site Narrative and Community https://katekoppy.hcommons.org/?p=443 Sun, 07 May 2023 11:59:32 -0400 In my upper-level survey and seminar classes, I assign students a final project with a lot of self-direction. They get to choose whether to work solo or in a small group (2-4 students). They get to choose whether […]

]]> a55f75d2546ff0ad52a9dbf2ad9c3dc3 Kate Koppy wrote a new post, Remote Work and Community, on the site Narrative and Community https://katekoppy.hcommons.org/?p=433 Tue, 25 Apr 2023 20:29:43 -0400 In a post on her Substack the process early this year, Irina Dumitrescu wrote:

Whatever we have done so far is not enough, it disappears into the past, the reckoning that matters is still to come, and it is […]

]]> c5cd9d3c36deab71870589771b739ad5 Kate Koppy's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1817272/ Wed, 12 Oct 2022 08:21:18 -0400 0 2b2b476d0720528005f241a0c97ca247 Kate Koppy wrote a new post, Creative Projects Spring 2022, on the site Narrative and Community https://katekoppy.hcommons.org/?p=425 Wed, 11 May 2022 15:15:13 -0400 In my upper-level survey and seminar classes, I assign students a final project with a lot of self-direction. They get to choose whether to work solo or in a small group (2-4 students). They get to choose whether […]

]]> 73bfae93a9b4d16412ce0f3098423a5f Kate Koppy wrote a new post, Six Months in Moscow, on the site Notes from the Gallery https://notesfromthegallery.hcommons.org/?p=115 Fri, 18 Mar 2022 03:16:50 -0400 In September, I moved to Moscow expecting to stay for three years.

I moved to Moscow to continue on campus the job I had been doing remotely for a year already at that point, a job that I took because, after […]

]]> a9ccb3fcc31bdefc612f837309938386 Kate Koppy wrote a new post, Field-Improvised Measuring Device, on the site Notes from the Gallery https://notesfromthegallery.hcommons.org/?p=108 Mon, 27 Dec 2021 13:08:59 -0500 Years ago on a camping trip when the kids were little, my friend GB, a career service member, introduced me to the idea that when you need to measure something, you don’t actually need a tape measure. Anything […]

]]> 67b4f1f941438e4ba4fb5a872f153768 Kate Koppy wrote a new post, Take only what you need to survive, on the site Notes from the Gallery https://notesfromthegallery.hcommons.org/?p=93 Tue, 16 Nov 2021 19:35:07 -0500 Since the international moving company packed most of what I wanted to bring to Moscow on August 10th, I’ve been living out of suitcases.

In those three months and change, I have waffled between feelings of […]

]]> cd42c438c110b78757002551728eb85a Kate Koppy wrote a new post, Where are the gates, actually?, on the site Notes from the Gallery https://notesfromthegallery.hcommons.org/?p=83 Sat, 30 Oct 2021 21:55:22 -0400 My bus/tram/trolley stop is Покровские ворота (Pokrovski’e vorota, Pokrovsky Gates), and I would like to know where the gates are please.

Because there are no gates visible. None whatsoever at the intersectio […]

]]> 33678228d2a97c2c831ca66f231210cf Kate Koppy wrote a new post, 2000 steps before elevenses, on the site Notes from the Gallery https://notesfromthegallery.hcommons.org/?p=69 Thu, 21 Oct 2021 20:19:31 -0400 CW: This post contains discussion of food, activity, and weight. Sensitive readers might prefer to skip it. 

Two thousand steps before breakfast would have been a better title, and I thought about it, but it’s […]

]]> 8cbee20a666ee34c7aa8eeb093bf0189 Kate Koppy wrote a new post, While the Sun Shines, on the site Notes from the Gallery https://notesfromthegallery.hcommons.org/?p=34 Wed, 13 Oct 2021 06:43:45 -0400 The day I arrived in Moscow was a beautiful day with blue skies and mild temperatures, but I was exhausted from an overnight flight with little sleep and drama with renting The Gallery (a story for another post 😉 […]

]]> eaf499014ff26a7d85c0695263c2d246 Kate Koppy commented on the post, The Trouble with Travel Writing, on the site Notes from the Gallery https://notesfromthegallery.hcommons.org/2021/10/07/the-trouble-with-travel-writing/#comment-5 Thu, 07 Oct 2021 08:49:34 -0400 Thanks for the support and encouragement, Lou.

]]> 69417c7784581f77bc9627f961cab0ef Kate Koppy wrote a new post, The Trouble with Travel Writing, on the site Notes from the Gallery https://notesfromthegallery.hcommons.org/?p=32 Thu, 07 Oct 2021 06:22:04 -0400 The attraction of travel writing is that, like travel, it offers us the chance to see something different. A different climate, different topology, different food ways, different language, different […]

]]> 09a1da363f81573d5e8b86aa126a4807 Kate Koppy wrote a new post, The Gallery, on the site Notes from the Gallery https://notesfromthegallery.hcommons.org/?p=41 Sun, 03 Oct 2021 19:53:32 -0400 It’s standard practice in the Russian Federation that rented apartments come furnished. Over the last few months of looking at online rental postings, I came to realize that “furnished” is a broad term, ranging […]

]]> a9702a71ef15a83f7b824d8e9df421ed Kate Koppy created the site Notes from the Gallery https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1753550/ Sun, 03 Oct 2021 12:20:29 -0400 0 b030976972eab01207edc1b707e8655a Kate Koppy wrote a new post, Cost and Relativity, on the site Notes from the Gallery https://notesfromthegallery.hcommons.org/?p=36 Sun, 03 Oct 2021 10:54:55 -0400 Russians often talk about how expensive it is to live in Moscow, and I mostly believe them. I suppose it’s much more expensive here than living in one of Russia’s smaller cities or villages. Honestly, though, […]

]]> 701d1b1c8be3ddc35ef8fb33151628a6 Kate Koppy posted a new activity comment https://katekoppy.hcommons.org/2020/04/16/teaching-writing-organizing-ideas/#comment-686 Tue, 15 Jun 2021 21:39:36 -0400 Thanks for your honest feedback. Personally, I find punctuation issues to be more distracting than spelling issues in general.

Really, though, as I tell my students, errors in mechanics only matter when impede communication.

In reply to - Kate Koppy wrote a new post, Teaching Writing: Organizing Ideas, on the site Narrative and Community This post is part of a series on Writing Pedagogy. Some writing tasks come with a rigid structure built in, […] ]]> bfb9db53c82cfaa178a16b26da8ce234 Kate Koppy wrote a new post, Teaching Writing: The Review of the Literature, on the site Narrative and Community https://katekoppy.hcommons.org/?p=392 Wed, 06 Jan 2021 17:51:30 -0500 This post is part of a series on Writing Pedagogy.

The review of the literature, also called a lit review,  is a tricky sub-genre of scholarly writing.  It sometimes shows up as a standalone document in class a […]

]]> af8d6c0269e4d0757956c5eccef6a826 Kate Koppy posted a new activity comment https://katekoppy.hcommons.org/2020/05/12/app-review-perusall/#comment-158 Tue, 01 Sep 2020 16:37:40 -0400 You’re so welcome! Thanks for the intel about the possibility of changing the grading scale in Perusall. I did not find that in March, but now I will look for it again.

In reply to - Kate Koppy wrote a new post, App Review: Perusall, on the site Narrative and Community Perusall is a social reading app than can be used as a standalone tool or embedded with a course management system like […] ]]> a44a85815c76b3a99d592623c69191fb Kate Koppy's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1705849/ Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:52:36 -0400 0 d9d9a03e1f0628a37d4f166a65f9abdc Kate Koppy wrote a new post, Contingency and Departure, on the site Narrative and Community https://katekoppy.hcommons.org/?p=354 Tue, 09 Jun 2020 17:46:12 -0400 Dear Universities,

Find ways to recognize and celebrate the contributions of your departing contingent faculty the way you celebrate administrators and professors who retire or move to new […]

]]> 405688bfa4cce09b6cc636b3ba800b8a Kate Koppy posted a new activity comment https://katekoppy.hcommons.org/2020/05/12/app-review-perusall/#comment-61 Wed, 13 May 2020 14:26:16 -0400 I have not used Hypothesis, but I just checked, and it is also available in Canvas at our university. (In any of your classes go to SETTINGS > APPS and search for Hypothesis.)

Perusall is also web-based. The annotations are happening in real time online.

ETA: Ah, I see. Hypthesis offers annotation of websites. Here is their Quick Start Page that…[Read more]

In reply to - Kate Koppy wrote a new post, App Review: Perusall, on the site Narrative and Community Perusall is a social reading app than can be used as a standalone tool or embedded with a course management system like […] ]]> e934a618f2c8e4db654f2975a2b55e08 Kate Koppy wrote a new post, App Review: Perusall, on the site Narrative and Community https://katekoppy.hcommons.org/?p=338 Tue, 12 May 2020 17:03:03 -0400 Perusall is a social reading app than can be used as a standalone tool or embedded with a course management system like Canvas. This is a brief review based on my experience using it with students during our shift […]

]]> 4fa57ed12f452cc3876f6cc217be7c5a Kate Koppy posted a new activity comment https://katekoppy.hcommons.org/2019/05/02/teaching-writing-editing/#comment-54 Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:29:05 -0400 What you describe is a pretty common experience. Reading out loud helps, but sometimes that’s not enough. The activities in this post help you to focus on specific pieces of grammar, punctuation, or usage without reading through your paper from beginning to end. They separate the process of checking for errors from the reading process.

In reply to - Kate Koppy wrote a new post, Teaching Writing: Editing, on the site Narrative and Community This is part of a series of blog posts about guiding students through different stages of the writing process. This post […] ]]> f6cf2f5059f2beb704260e823d2e822e Kate Koppy posted a new activity comment https://katekoppy.hcommons.org/2019/05/02/teaching-writing-editing/#comment-52 Thu, 23 Apr 2020 14:21:41 -0400 What you describe is not a mistake! It’s part of the process.

In reply to - Kate Koppy wrote a new post, Teaching Writing: Editing, on the site Narrative and Community This is part of a series of blog posts about guiding students through different stages of the writing process. This post […] ]]> 8d0d08c4d14b376af8424b318e19a663 Kate Koppy wrote a new post, Teaching Writing: Organizing Ideas, on the site Narrative and Community https://katekoppy.hcommons.org/?p=334 Thu, 16 Apr 2020 21:11:59 -0400 This post is part of a series on Writing Pedagogy.

Some writing tasks come with a rigid structure built in, while some are more open-ended and leave the writer to decide how to organize the ideas. Writers often […]

]]> 945b289e746c28544575c5ee5c360d61 Kate Koppy wrote a new post, Teaching Writing: Finding Your Argument, on the site Narrative and Community https://katekoppy.hcommons.org/?p=316 Thu, 09 Apr 2020 00:23:09 -0400 This post is part of a series on Writing Pedagogy.

Generally when we engage in research writing, the first step is to find a bunch of sources and read and annotate them. This is, of course, important because we […]

]]> 3bf6de920e75282fe7e6f2a0a3a2ec3b Kate Koppy posted an update: @cschneider Thanks so much for posting your teaching […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1666495/ Mon, 14 Oct 2019 21:17:06 -0400 @cschneider Thanks so much for posting your teaching portfolio to the Academic Job Search group! Your examples of how to demonstrate teaching effectiveness in this kind of document are really helpful.

]]> 0 98ccfb012305ecde28c7122a29924408 Kate Koppy uploaded the file: Cover Letter to Academic Job Market Support Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1666071/ Wed, 09 Oct 2019 20:13:38 -0400 For a NTT lecturer position at a mid-size state university specializing in teaching English composition.

]]> 0 99e81479df8f3a21042fb8d7ce044b3e Kate Koppy replied to the topic Welcome & How to Submit Materials in the discussion Academic Job Market Support Network https://hcommons.org/groups/academic-job-market-support-network/forum/topic/welcome-how-to-submit-materials/#post-25474 Thu, 12 Sep 2019 15:01:06 -0400 Thanks so much for creating this group, Hannah!

]]> 0 b6c879112c95b807d4eb6d2652972f4e Kate Koppy deposited Book Proposal for The Fairy Tale as Secular Scripture in the group Women also Know Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1643222/ Tue, 25 Jun 2019 16:26:11 -0400 The Fairy Tale as Secular Scripture begins from the premise that fairy tales are a battleground in twenty-first century American culture. Hundreds of fairy tales enter the cultural space each year and are met with both acclaim and censure. Fairy tales are censured even as we consume them, but these cultural moments have been underexamined in…[Read more]

]]> 0 031d923d9b6eb816e2db8cffa0a1b995 Kate Koppy deposited Book Proposal for The Fairy Tale as Secular Scripture in the group Narrative theory and Narratology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1643221/ Tue, 25 Jun 2019 16:26:07 -0400 The Fairy Tale as Secular Scripture begins from the premise that fairy tales are a battleground in twenty-first century American culture. Hundreds of fairy tales enter the cultural space each year and are met with both acclaim and censure. Fairy tales are censured even as we consume them, but these cultural moments have been underexamined in…[Read more]

]]> 0 86295d6a45fa451fe84cc4b5cedf7041 Kate Koppy deposited Book Proposal for The Fairy Tale as Secular Scripture in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1643220/ Tue, 25 Jun 2019 16:26:00 -0400 The Fairy Tale as Secular Scripture begins from the premise that fairy tales are a battleground in twenty-first century American culture. Hundreds of fairy tales enter the cultural space each year and are met with both acclaim and censure. Fairy tales are censured even as we consume them, but these cultural moments have been underexamined in…[Read more]

]]> 0 efaf3dbc2a8d0023c1ab94c7f370459c Kate Koppy deposited Book Proposal for The Fairy Tale as Secular Scripture in the group American Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1643219/ Tue, 25 Jun 2019 16:25:24 -0400 The Fairy Tale as Secular Scripture begins from the premise that fairy tales are a battleground in twenty-first century American culture. Hundreds of fairy tales enter the cultural space each year and are met with both acclaim and censure. Fairy tales are censured even as we consume them, but these cultural moments have been underexamined in…[Read more]

]]> 0 849ee55d41eca3f5fbbcc753cf2ce493 Kate Koppy deposited Book Proposal for The Fairy Tale as Secular Scripture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1643170/ Mon, 24 Jun 2019 17:23:35 -0400 The Fairy Tale as Secular Scripture begins from the premise that fairy tales are a battleground in twenty-first century American culture. Hundreds of fairy tales enter the cultural space each year and are met with both acclaim and censure. Fairy tales are censured even as we consume them, but these cultural moments have been underexamined in…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b6ce8691deab52ea798e145e76778c6 Kate Koppy wrote a new post, Teaching Writing: Editing, on the site Narrative and Community https://katekoppy.hcommons.org/?p=260 Thu, 02 May 2019 18:53:19 -0400 This is part of a series of blog posts about guiding students through different stages of the writing process.

This post focuses on editing, the stage of the writing process in which we think about words and […]

]]> c2fcbe5b66dacd32826562db3a1dbad9 Kate Koppy wrote a new post, Teaching Writing: Drafting, Generativity vs. Judgement, on the site Narrative and Community https://katekoppy.hcommons.org/?p=241 Thu, 11 Apr 2019 18:52:17 -0400 This post is part of a series on Writing Pedagogy.

One of the most broadly applicable things I learned in all of my linguistics coursework as a graduate student is the distinction between fluency and accuracy. […]

]]> 558d010e826eb70d0cbde81498ecfa6d Kate Koppy wrote a new post, Teaching Writing: Topic Development, on the site Narrative and Community https://katekoppy.hcommons.org/?p=231 Sat, 23 Mar 2019 22:39:16 -0400 This post is part of a series on Writing Pedagogy.

When it comes to choosing topics for research papers, my students, at all levels of writing instruction, fall into two camps. First the Committers–they come […]

]]> a3b8f6327353e13a8b94ce4c1fa14c9a Kate Koppy wrote a new post, Teaching Writing: Revision and Why We Do It, on the site Narrative and Community https://katekoppy.hcommons.org/?p=217 Tue, 08 Jan 2019 00:20:23 -0500 This post is part of a series on Writing Pedagogy.

This post focuses on revision, the stage of the writing process in which we think about ideas and organization, and also a stage of the writing process that my […]

]]> 060cae18032fab57ac5c940d4f1e0987 Kate Koppy wrote a new post, Teaching Writing: Revision Strategies, on the site Narrative and Community https://katekoppy.hcommons.org/?p=211 Mon, 07 Jan 2019 16:43:13 -0500 This post is part of a series on Writing Pedagogy.

This post focuses on revision, the stage of the writing process in which we think about ideas and organization, and also a stage of the writing process that my […]

]]> 4536f99c82b3ad333a6531229443c82c Kate Koppy's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1620144/ Fri, 05 Oct 2018 20:30:42 -0400 0 8ddd3ac33300e3ab61e4e6230a8d1a47 Kate Koppy created the site Narrative and Community https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1620112/ Fri, 05 Oct 2018 15:48:18 -0400 0 8115af06dd1f6a9ed9a8271e9c82b9ec Kate Koppy deposited The Findern Codex and the Blog In the Middle: Understanding Middle English Vernacular Manuscripts through the Lens of Social Media in the Twenty-First Century in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615064/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:57:52 -0400 This paper articulates a model for examining medieval vernacular multi-text codices which
is based on the dynamics we see in the contemporary use of social media, particularly
personal blogs. Both media democratise the use of an existing specialised technology,
accelerate the development of this technology, and serve as vehicles for the…[Read more]

]]> 0 f801c2eaa8819797bb4bc2f55c6f014c Kate Koppy deposited The Findern Codex and the Blog In the Middle: Understanding Middle English Vernacular Manuscripts through the Lens of Social Media in the Twenty-First Century in the group Humanities Commons Summer Camp https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615063/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:57:45 -0400 This paper articulates a model for examining medieval vernacular multi-text codices which
is based on the dynamics we see in the contemporary use of social media, particularly
personal blogs. Both media democratise the use of an existing specialised technology,
accelerate the development of this technology, and serve as vehicles for the…[Read more]

]]> 0 25cfae1b5bb8956b4d4b0f29c288c77f Kate Koppy replied to the topic Challenge #6: Reflect and Plan (8/6-8/19) in the discussion Humanities Commons Summer Camp https://hcommons.org/groups/humanities-commons-summer-camp/forum/topic/challenge-6-reflect-and-plan-8-6-8-19/#post-15542 Thu, 09 Aug 2018 17:39:10 -0400
  • I’m happy to have discovered some more groups to join and people to follow. Although I didn’t create a HC site in challenge 4, the focus on widgets has me thinking about porting my existing WP site into HC.
  • No specific questions.
  • I’d like to keep working on networking with other researchers. HC sends me a daily digest of activity in the…

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    ]]>     0     06bc457cf485fce309b7b68122457ba8 Kate Koppy replied to the topic Challenge #4: Sites (7/9-22) in the discussion Humanities Commons Summer Camp https://hcommons.org/groups/humanities-commons-summer-camp/forum/topic/challenge-4-sites-7-9-22/#post-15026 Mon, 09 Jul 2018 23:28:54 -0400 Thanks for the example sites compiled in this challenge!

    I’m going to sit this one out, thought, because I already have a professional portfolio and blog on Wordpress, and my course sites are hosted by my university.

    My personal challenge in the next two weeks will be to link to my previous course sites from my portfolio site.

    ]]>     0     be75cfbceae39a413f296f57b215dc6d Kate Koppy deposited The Findern Codex and the Blog In the Middle: Understanding Middle English Vernacular Manuscripts through the Lens of Social Media in the Twenty-First Century https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1612220/ Mon, 02 Jul 2018 16:13:01 -0400 This paper articulates a model for examining medieval vernacular multi-text codices which
    is based on the dynamics we see in the contemporary use of social media, particularly
    personal blogs. Both media democratise the use of an existing specialised technology,
    accelerate the development of this technology, and serve as vehicles for the…[Read more]

    ]]>     0     562454c6b991bbfe4f61f923dc9b0bfc Kate Koppy replied to the topic Challenge #2: Networking (6/11-24) in the discussion Humanities Commons Summer Camp https://hcommons.org/groups/humanities-commons-summer-camp/forum/topic/challenge-2-networking-6-11-24/#post-14341 Mon, 11 Jun 2018 15:26:16 -0400 Just in case anyone else had trouble finding the Humanities Commons homepage for item 1 of Challenge 2…….

    Once you log in, click on the Humanities Commons logo in the upper left of screen.

    It’s such a useful page, and I’m grateful that this challenge prompted me to find it. 🙂

    ]]>     0     75273fd95031b613154151efceb5798f Kate Koppy's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1610090/ Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:01:32 -0400 0