Writing the Pandemic - An Instructor's Reflections on a New Era in Education - Tom Mulder
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Writing the Pandemic - An Instructor's Reflections on a New Era in Education - Tom Mulder
Tom Mulder [+]
Grand Rapids (Michigan) Community College
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Tom Mulder holds an MA in English Language and Literature from Ohio University and an MEd in Educational Leadership from Tarleton State University. He teaches English at Grand Rapids Community College and Writing at Grand Valley State University, both in Michigan. In 2017, he was awarded the John and Suanne Roueche Excellence Award from the League for Innovation in the Community College and the Excellence in Education 2017 Adjunct Faculty award from Grand Rapids Community College, and was a participant in the college’s Great Teachers Seminar. He has been a Fellow and was awarded Teacher Consultant certification at the Lake Michigan Writing Project affiliate of the National Writing Project. Writing the Pandemic is Mulder’s second book in the Frameworks for Writing series, which previously published his English Composition Teacher’s Guidebook: How to Survive (and Even Thrive) as an Adjunct or Part-time Instructor (Equinox, 2020).
Description
Chapter 8 defines an unsung hero/ethnography research essay, requiring students to identify an oft-overlooked individual, possibly a recipient of racist abuse or an underappreciated essential worker, possibly in a medical position or along the supply chain, and to interview. Then the essay involves using specific databases from the college’s library to begin a study of a related ethnography community. Again, along with a sample student essay, step-by-step instructions are included for photocopying or projecting and scoring.