Faculty Profile: Alan Devenish
Current Work
IWT has been as busy as ever this academic year, with a variety of workshops presented and planned, both at Bard and on-site for teachers at middle schools, high schools, and colleges in the United States and Canada. Click below for a complete listing of IWT's most recent work.
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Upcoming Programs
WAITLIST ONLY - Writing and Thinking
July 8– July 13, 2012A weeklong introduction to IWT's basic writing practices.
Writing to Learn
July 8– July 13, 2012Writing strategies that help students better understand complex ideas.
Inquiry Into Essay
July 8– July 13, 2012Focusing on the analytic essay as a finished product.
Teaching the Academic Paper
July 8– July 13, 2012This workshop extends and deepens a conversation begun at the Institute’s April 2006 conference, “Great Expectations: Re-visioning the Academic Paper.”
Creative Nonfiction: Telling the Truth
July 8– July 13, 2012Examining how writers operate within this subgenre.
CANCELLED - Poetry for Today’s Classrooms
July 8– July 13, 2012Experiencing poetic language as writer and reader.
CANCELLED - Fictions: Memory and Imagination
July 8– July 13, 2012For those interested in writing and teaching both fiction and autobiography.
Thinking Historically through Writing: Case Studies in American History
July 8– July 13, 2012CANCELLED - Writing Retreat for Teachers
July 8– July 13, 2012For teachers wishing to work on their own writing.
Revolutionary Grammar
July 8– July 13, 2012What is grammar? What does it contribute to meaning and expression?
Announcements
SUMMER WORKSHOPS FILLING FAST: Register now to attend this summer's weeklong Writing and Thinking workshops from Sunday, July 8 through Friday, July 13 on the campus of Bard College. Please spread the word to your colleagues who teach American History that one of the summer workshops this year is Thinking Historically Through Writing: Case Studies in American History.
IWT WORKSHOPS IN CALIFORNIA: California public school teachers take note: three weeklong IWT workshops are being offered at the Bard MAT campus in Delano from June 18-22. Click here for details.
PLENARY REMARKS: Click here for the remarks presented by writer Luc Sante at the recent IWT Conference The Fourth Genre: Creative Nonfiction in the Classroom on the history, writing, and teaching of CNF.
GETTING HERE: Click here for detailed information about traveling to Bard via road, rail, or air.
WHAT OUR PARTICIPANTS SAY
The text has become rich for me again. I would like to develop exercises like ones we did in this workshop to help my students really live with the novel. Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn: Facing the Challenge of Teaching an American Classic.
—American literature, college level
—American literature, college level
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