Welcome to the digital homepage for Brian Graves, Senior Lecturer in English and Coordinator of First-Year Writing at UNC Asheville. At present, this serves primarily as a resource for my students, providing supplemental or backup access to course materials. Current pages here include the following:
Courses: Information for current students (and links to previous course materials)
Featured Links:
Echoes of Latin American Racism Reverberate in the U.S. (Miriam Jordan, for the NYT, 14 Oct 2022)
How we pronounce Uvalde says a lot about the power of language in mixed communities (Isabella Gomez Sarmiento, for NPR, 3 June 2022)
Grades are Dehumanizing; Ungrading is No Simple Solution (Jesse Stommel, 2 June 2021)
CWPA Statement on Jan. 6 and the Importance of Writing and Rhetoric (12 Jan 2021)
Student Writing in the Digital Age (Anne Trubek, at JSTOR Daily, 19 Oct 2016), summarizing Andrea Lunsford and Karen Lunsford’s “‘Mistakes Are a Fact of Life’: A National Comparative Study” (2008).
What to Do with an English Degree (Jessica Heller, via the blog of Sigma Tau Delta, a national English honor society, 10 Aug 2017)
Microsoft Word’s Grammar and Style Tools Will Make Your Writing Worse (Jacob Brogan, at Slate.com, 3 Aug 2017)
We Know How to Teach Writing (John Warner, at InsideHigherEd.com, 20 Aug 2017)
How One Man Convinced 200 Ku Klux Klan Members to Give Up Their Robes (Dwane Brown, at npr.org, 20 Aug 2017)