Flower Darby is an associate director of the Teaching for Learning Center at the University of Missouri. In this role she builds on her experience teaching in person and online for over twenty-eight years to empower faculty to teach effective and inclusive classes in all modalities. She is a coauthor of The Norton Guide to …
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William T. Bianco is professor of political science at Indiana University, Bloomington. His research focuses on congressional institutions, representation, and inequality. He is the co-author (with David Canon) of a Norton textbook, American Politics Today, as well as numerous journal articles and books. William T. BiancoImage Credit: Paul B. One of the priorities in the …
An award-winning science writer based in Boston, Massachusetts, Megan Scudellari works with editors, scientists, and organizations to craft compelling science narratives. With fifteen years of journalism, editing, and content development experience, she specializes in the life sciences and technology, with expertise in genetics and cell biology. She is also the author of the nonmajors biology …
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The W. W. Norton Composition team sat down with editors of The Norton Reader to discuss its growing legacy at Norton and what instructors can look forward to in the Sixteenth Edition, publishing this summer. Why do you think The Norton Reader has endured for six decades? Joseph Bizup: John Brereton, a former editor of …
If you’re like most faculty, you’re worried about AI—specifically, how large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Bing Chat will affect your students’ learning. For example, one colleague said she was concerned that “students will lose their unique voices.” Another added: “I want to hear their original thoughts. I want them to be …
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Larry Hamberlin is professor emeritus of music at Middlebury College, where he taught courses in music appreciation, Western classical music, American music, jazz, and popular music. His books include Tin Pan Opera and, with Richard Crawford, An Introduction to America’s Music. Larry HamberlinImage Credit: Francine Hamberlin Nearly everyone intuits that music is more than just pretty sounds. …
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Roger L. Miesfeld is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Arizona where he has taught biochemistry both in person and online for 36 years to thousands of premed biochemistry students. Roger has integrated active learning modules and everyday biochemistry into his course, which helped earn him the University of Arizona Honors College Faculty Excellence …
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Elizabeth Adan is chair of the women's, gender, and queer studies department and a professor of interdisciplinary studies at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo. Her 20+ years of teaching and research experience have focused on modern and contemporary art, history, and visual culture as well as feminist theory and practice. She has also …
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Stacy Palen is an award-winning professor at Weber State University. She received her BS in physics from Rutgers University and her PhD in physics from the University of Iowa. As a lecturer at the University of Washington, she taught Introductory Astronomy more than 20 times over 4 years. She spends most of her time thinking …
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Trinidad Gonzales is a Mexican American studies and history instructor at South Texas College and the author of Norton’s classroom resources for use with Give Me Liberty! in U.S. history courses. He has received the American Historical Association’s John Lewis Award for History and Social Justice. Trinidad Gonzales I have taught dual enrollment (DE) courses …
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