Helping Your Students Grow Their Grammar Skills through Adaptive Practice

Lynda Haas

Lynda Haas is a Senior Continuing Lecturer at the University of California, Irvine, where she teaches all levels of composition; for 10 years she was also a Writing Program Administrator. Her areas of research include digital pedagogy, digital literacies, visual rhetoric, and the intersections between writing theory, feminism, and film studies. She co-edited a book of essays entitled From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture, and has presented papers at major composition conferences; most recently she presented "Accelerating the Learning of International Students" at the Symposium on Second Language Writing. She has been using McGraw-Hill’s Connect since 2010 and helped pilot several tools as they were released, including the facilitation of an inter-institutional assessment study. She has also served as a Digital Faculty Consultant since 2010, and enjoys talking with other instructors about Connect and digital pedagogy.