My intention in writing the "Comp One-Oh-Fun" blog is to help new college writers navigate the straits between the shallow expectations of high school and the deeper demands of college-level expository writing. As a high school English teacher and an adjunct college instructor, I have a toe dipped in both bodies of water. I'm very familiar with the stereotypes college and high school instructors hold of one another. College professors view high school teachers as baby sitters with limited content knowledge who regularly ship unprepared students to their post-secondary institutions; high school teachers view college professors as under-worked, pampered ivory-tower dwellers who mistake having self-selected students for teaching skill. Neither view is entirely true, and this clash does not help students treading water during their freshman year. This blog aims to offer practical but lively writing advice, based on real classroom experience, to those struggling first-year college student writers.
About Bob Dial
I am a teacher and writer. I teach English at a public high school in upstate New York, including AP English Language and Composition, a community college-credit Composition class, and Regents-level American Literature. During the summers, I also teach Academic Writing for the Educational Opportunity Program at Skidmore College. In past years, I have also worked at several State University of New York (SUNY) community colleges as both a professional tutor in the writing center and adjunct instructor of a course in Professional and Technical Writing. Before becoming a teacher, I worked as a newspaper reporter and editor.
I can be contacted by email at bobdial64@gmail.com.
