Writing teacher & researcher. PhD, English. Assistant Director, Institute for Civic Engagement, SUNY Cortland Editor, Journal of the Scholarship of Engagement

New York, USA
Joined December 2011
My amazing wife @Sally_Chivers will be on Chex in 10 minutes re: the #TrentAging2019 conference she’s hosting this week
Watch out for @TrentAging Director @Sally_Chivers talking about #TrentAging2019 on Global New Morning with @TeresaKaszuba at about 7:20 this morning.
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Wow! So thrilled to see this!
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I just found out that I received the Fall 2019 Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation award for my project Writing, Place, Network. Happy Monday!
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How can supervisors help their graduate students write better? In the latest episode of Teaching Writing, I discuss specific actions supervisors can take podomatic.com/podcasts/roger… @UAlbertaFGSR @ualbertaGSA @UA_magazine @casdw @CWCAssoc #phdchat #PhD
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RT@Mark_Leier Especially if you're going to read while having a piece of Lenin harangue pie?
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I have actual visual evidence of your gladness!
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Purposes + Disciplines: how does purpose in writing vary with disciplinary contexts? podomatic.com/podcasts/roger… In this episode of Teaching Writing I look at purpose from the disciplinary perspective. @CASDW_ACR @CWCAssoc @ualbertactl @UAlberta @NCTE_CCCC @IWCA_NCTE @UA_magazine
Start your #mla2019 with a laugh at panel 38. Aging, Care, and Humor! We’re in the Toronto room of the Hyatt, in Chicago at noon tomorrow. ⁦Join me, @jannaKlos⁩ & ⁦@LizBaz⁩ and more talking about dementia, care, and humour in lit, drama, and life. #agestudies
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Sign the petition to pass the Reproductive Health Act and codify Roe v. Wade in New York. governor.ny.gov/content/sign…
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Cortland plays some great baseball!
Cortland Baseball Spring Prospect Clinic Set for Feb. 16 bit.ly/2EUvELu
Write as if your academic career depended on it: because it does! In this episode I look at how introductions, citations, and visuals contribute to academic articles. podomatic.com/podcasts/roger…
Y'all I'm running at least one mile every day in December, and even though this meme says otherwise, it's gonna be FUN. Soo... let's go? #runstreak
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"Plain language depends on your audience. A communication can be plain to one group but not to another, and it’s up to your intended audience — not you or readability formulas — to define what is plain." msfhr.org/news/blog-posts/pl…
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RhetCanada (formerly CSSR/SCER) now has a shiny new website, and our media (like this Twitter account) are being updated as well. The old website has been retired. New media, same wonderful members. Visit our new site: rhetcanada.org.
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I wrote a blog about one of my favorite in-class activities: collaborative close reading! This activity turns one of the most difficult skills to teach into an opportunity to create a collaborative classroom community @HASTAC @HASTACscholars hastac.org/blogs/danicasavon…
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Protect #TitleX! #NoGagRule! Leave a comment at bit.ly/title_x to let @HHSGov know that a Title X gag rule would be a disaster for patients with low-income and an intrusion into the doctor/patient relationship.
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