Professor Yancey ended her talk with a call to teachers to meet their students where they already are, saying,<\/p>\n
“I love students for who they are, not for who I want them to be.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
WRD enjoyed learning from Professor Yancey in our autumn quarter Writing and Rhetoric Across Borders talk. Stay tuned for announcements about the winter quarter speaker!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Introduction Kathy Blake Yancey joined the WRD Department as a part of its quarterly speaker series, Writing and Rhetoric Across Borders. Yancey is the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University. Her presentation, \u201cTracing College Writers\u2019 Prior Knowledge: What Is It, and How Can it Help Us Teach Writing Better?\u201d highlighted why and how teachers should draw on students’ various prior knowledges about writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":9620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559,9],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-9554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-department-news-events","category-events","tag-wrd-speaker-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}