My chapter in the new Open Education Resource (OER) Biological Anthropology textbook, Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology is now available! I was super proud to have been a part of this project and I researched and wrote something that I am very happy to see. I wrote Chapter 12:… Read more“Announcing Chapter 12 of Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology”
Tag: writing
The Long Way
It was my first semester of graduate school, fall of 2001. I was in a seminar class on paleoethnobotany, the study of ancient human-plant interactions, taught by Deborah Pearsall, who later become one of my doctoral advisors. In the ground floor meeting room of Swallow Hall, a small group and… Read more“The Long Way”
Summer Fun Project 2018
It’s nearly summertime when my teaching schedule thins out and I do something extra to stay busy. Previously, I worked on Anthropomotron, my comic, and 3D printing. My outside fun project this summer is again very related to teaching: I’m one of the writers for an Open Education Resource textbook… Read more“Summer Fun Project 2018”
How to Write a Student Research Paper, Part 2: The World’s Wildest Introductions and Conclusions
In the previous part of this two-part series, I went over the basics of introduction and conclusion writing for research papers. In this part I will use an unusual example of this structure in the wild:Â The World’s Wildest Police Videos. Hosted by John Bunnell from 1998 to 2012, the TV… Read more“How to Write a Student Research Paper, Part 2: The World’s Wildest Introductions and Conclusions”
How to Begin and End a Student Research Paper, Part 1
Since I have been teaching cultural anthropology online, I have graded a lot of papers at all levels of quality. For papers that land in the B to C area, I have noticed some common pitfalls that can be fixed if the student knew more about the research paper format…. Read more“How to Begin and End a Student Research Paper, Part 1”
If I Could Make One Suggestion…?
I’m new to this teaching thing, but I seem to be a hit with my students, so I have a tip for someone even newer than I. The anthropology course I am teaching online is writing intensive, as online courses tend to be. There are multiple weekly discussions and writing… Read more“If I Could Make One Suggestion…?”