Occasional Papers: Teaching Writing in a Way That Students Embrace Enthusiastically

OPs, short for Occasional Papers. are the "backbone" of our writing instruction. Students write several during the grading period. They are what some writing professionals call natural context writing, writing that does what writers want writing naturally to do - to communicate. Writers communicating with an audience is the natural context of writing. Do these Occasional Papers replace everything that we are used to teaching in a writing course: matters of correctness, expectations of genre...