I (@kstedman) finished reading Bad Ideas about Writing. What's left to say? A lot, apparently. This final reflective episode is not found in the book; instead, it records some of the genesis of this podcast project, some details about how I made it, lots of random thoughts about scholarly audiobooks, and fewer thanks than I should have included. It's not required listening; think of it as the director's commentary. The transcript is available in this Google Doc ..read more

Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Anyone Can Teach Writing," by Seth Kahn. It's a chapter first published in Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title. Keywords: academic labor, adjunct, contingent, non-tenure-track faculty, writing program administration/administrators, writing studies Seth Kahn is an English professor at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. He researches and writes about academic labor, espe ..read more

Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Anyone Can Teach an Online Writing Course," by Beth L. Hewett. It's a chapter first published in Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title. Keywords: online learning, online writing instruction, OWI, reading online, reading to learn, writing feedback, writing online, writing process Beth L. Hewett is an expert in online literacy instruction, the founding president of the Global So ..read more

Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Face-to-Face Courses Are Superior to Online Courses" by Tiffany Bourelle and Andy Bourelle (@AndrewBourelle). It's a chapter first published in Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title. Keywords: asynchronous methods, face-to-face instruction (f2f), MOOCs, multimodal composition, online writing instruction (OWI), synchronous methods Tiffany Bourelle is an associate professor of E ..read more

Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Secondary-School English Teachers Should Only Be Taught Literature" by Elizabethada A. Wright. It's a chapter first published in Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title. Keywords: secondary English education programs, rhetoric, AP Central, writing pedagogy, first-year writing Professor at University of Minnesota Duluth, Elizabethada A. Wright teaches in the Department of English ..read more

Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Dual-Enrollment Writing Classes Should Always Be Pursued" by Caroline Wilkinson (@wilkicg). It's a chapter first published in Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title. Keywords: college-level writing, composition/rhetoric, dual enrollment, writing studies, writing-program administration Caroline Wilkinson is an associate professor of English at New Jersey City University. She wri ..read more

Andrew Hollinger (@ashollinger) reads his chapter "You're Going to Need This for College." (Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.) It's a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) produces the show and will be back as narrator next week. Chapter keywords: FYC/first-year composition, high school to college transition, threshold concepts, writing pedagogy Andrew Hollinger is coordinator of First Year Writing at the University ..read more

Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "The More Digital Technology, The Better," by Genesea M. Carter (@GeneseaC) and Aurora Matzke. It's a chapter first published in Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title. Keywords: cognition, digital literacy, digital writing, multimodal writing, technostress Genesea M. Carter is associate director of composition and assistant professor of writing, rhetoric, and digital literacy a ..read more

Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Gamification Makes Writing Fun," by Joshua Daniel (@FoxyJoshyD). It's a chapter first published in Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title. Keywords: avatar, design, gamification, gaming, ludic, play, procedural rhetoric Joshua Daniel (previously published under Daniel-Wariya) is an assistant professor of rhetoric and professional writing at Oklahoma State University, where he a ..read more

Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Texting Ruins Literacy Skills," by Christopher Justice. It's a chapter first published in Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title. Keywords: colloquial language, digital literacy, digital rhetoric, linguistics, nonstandard language, orthography, standard language, texting Dr. Christopher Justice is a writer, professor, independent scholar, and conservationist working in the Balt ..read more