Write Here, Write Now
Faculty members: Aaron Tucker and Paul Chafe
Type: Learning Objects/Modules
Description: Write Here, Right Now: An interactive Introduction to Academic Writing and Research utilizes PressBooks to create and host a writing e-textbook for first year university students that would effectively integrate into the flipped classroom model. The textbook could also be used for non-flipped classroom designs, as the embedded videos, diagrams and linked modules would act as an all-in-one multimedia textbook geared towards multiple learning styles and disciplines. The components of the textbook, including the embedded videos, could be swapped in and out in order to accommodate a professor’s best idea of his/her own course design.
Author Biography
Aaron Tucker, BA, MA, PhD
Professor, English Departent
Aaron Tucker is the author of the novel Y: Oppenheimer, Horseman of Los Alamos (external link) (Coach House Books) as well as two books of poetry, Irresponsible Mediums: The Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp (external link) (Bookthug Press) and punchlines (external link) (Mansfield Press), and two scholarly cinema studies monographs, Virtual Weaponry: The Militarized Internet in Hollywood War Films (external link) and Interfacing with the Internet in Popular Cinema (external link) (both published by Palgrave Macmillan). He began his doctorate as an Elia Scholar and VISTA doctoral Scholar in the Cinema and Media Studies Department at York University in the Fall of 2018 where he is studying the cinema of facial recognition software and advocating for what he is calling “ethically sourced algorithms.”
Paul Chafe, BA, MA, PhD
Lecturer, English Department
Paul Chafe has been awarded a 2014 Learning and Teaching Enhancement Fund Grant for his project "Flipping" SSH 205: Empowering and Engaging Millennial Students in "Academic Writing and Research" Through Online Lectures and In-Class Workshops. His goal is to “flip” the course, providing students with online lectures and converting class time into full-time writing workshops.
© 2015 Aaron Tucker, Paul Chafe, Ryerson University. Write Here, Write Now is made available for public use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) license (external link) .
