Tag: Google Docs

• Feedback and Revision are the Problem

  Responding to student writing can be the toughest part of teaching First Year Writing / College Composition. This semester I spent a lot of time writing comments on paper-based texts. I got most of the students to hang on to my comments so they could turn them in with revisions. I do what I can…

  William Torgerson

  November 25, 2012

  teaching, Torg Life

  A Writer Teaches Writing, Book Country, engchat, English, feedback, fycchat, Google Docs, Google Drive, google+, language arts, NCTE, Penguin, revision, student writing

• Writing About Apple and Their Competitors

  Horace Dediu has an MBA from Harvard Business, an MS Engineering Degree from Tufts, and he studies business problems through an intense analysis of Apple and their competitors.  Horace joined me for my most recent iTunes “Digital Book Club” podcast to talk about the craft of writing.  I first became of aware of Horace when…

  William Torgerson

  January 3, 2012

  Torg Life

  angry birds, Apple Television, Asymco, audience, Brazil, business analysis, David Sparks, Google Docs, iPad, Justin Halpern, Katie Floyd, Mac Power Users, Rovio, scientific process, shit my dad says, teaching