Jennifer Arin is a lecturer in writing, literature, and child/adolescent development in the College of Health and Social Sciences at San Francisco State University. From the fall of 2015 until the spring of 2021, she was an academic adviser at the university.
Stories by This Author
Advice
For all the talk about holistic undergraduate advising, one thing is rarely championed: collaboration between staff counselors and faculty members.
The Review
Of all the reasons to use The New Yorker in a college writing class, the most compelling may be that its articles go beyond — well beyond — the five-paragraph model. Why, oh why, did that paradigm become such a fixture in composition courses? Students in my own writing classes invariably suppose…